This is a recipe for the Dan Mudd Rum Cake, one of my all-time favorite desserts, named after a former colleague from the Corpus Christi Caller-Times.
I made one this morning. It gets better and better every year.
Enjoy.
The cake:
— 1 cup pecans, halved or coarsely chopped
— 1 package of yellow cake mix, any brand but not a pudding mix
— 1 package of instant vanilla pudding mix
— 4 medium or large eggs (not extra-large or jumbo)
— 1/4 cup cold water
— 1/2 cup vegetable oil
— 1/2 cup of rum (any kind of rum, but do not use a Jamaican-type of rum)
Directions
— Preheat oven to 325F degrees
— Grease and flour 10-inch tube (angel-food type) pan
— Sprinkle nuts over bottom of pan
— Mix all cake ingredients
— Pour batter over nuts
— Bake for about 40 minutes
— Cool for about 30 minutes
— Make glaze while cake is cooling
— Prick deeply all over the top of the cake with a toothpick or thin knife
— Drizzle and smooth glaze evenly over top and sides, allowing glaze to soak into cake
— Keep spooning the glaze over cake until all glaze has been absorbed
— After all has cooled at room temperature, run knife along edge of cake and along center tube, and remove cake from pan
The glaze (make while cake is cooling)
— 1/2 cup of butter or 1/2 cup stick oleo (do not use tub or watered-down soft spread)
— 1/4 cup of water
— 1 cup of sugar
— 1/4 cup of rum
Directions
— Melt butter or oleo in a medium-sized saucepan
— Stir in water and sugar
— Boil for five minutes, stirring constantly
— Remove from heat and cool slightly
— Stir in rum slowly
— While warm, spoon over cake
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Ooo–this looks yummy!
Rum cake looks good but alcohol is hard to come by in Saudi Arabia.
wow that looks delicious!!
you write and bake, wow!
My aunt also has a delicious Rum Cake recipe-it won 1st place in a 4H contest many years ago!
I think this not only sounds yummy but it also sounds like something I could do without baking all day! I definitely burn my candles at both ends and like simple holiday recipes and life suggestions!
What a coincidence, I just made a rum cake this week too, different recipe but it was also brilliant.
Never had one!
Love this so much, I can’t wait to make it. 😃
we could arrange a positively-decadent dessert bake-off: my wife makes something similar with rum and pecans — a chocolate derby pie. hmmm: which do i have 2nds of? hmmm….
Looks like a great recipe, thanks.
Sounds like perfection in a cake pan!
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It sounds delicious!
This sounds good – I haven’t had Rum cake in years. Now I am making it for New Year’s Eve. Thanks!
Sounds tasty! Great post.
This is quite different than the rum cake I make but it sounds good.