Mouth-watering Holiday Dessert: Rum Cake

Rum cake is one of my family's favorite desserts for the holiday. Everyone loves it and many have begged for my recipe, which I happily share. One of my wife's friends actually wanted to market my cake. However, I am not in the commercial baking business and so I passed on the idea. When I originally started baking rum cakes, I baked them completely from scratch. To save time, soon I came up with a way to prepare my rum cake in only about 10 minutes using store purchased baking mix, without sacrificing any of the magic of my cake.

My secret is start with a box of cake mix as a base. I always use Duncan Hines. I guess you could use any box mix. I stick to either the Yellow Butter Recipe or the French Vanilla mix. I recommend that you try both. The texture of the cake is slightly different depending on the mix. The yellow cake mix makes a more traditional version but the french vanilla is really good too.

In fact, I bake three different versions of the Rum Cake. My main version is without a layer of nuts on the bottom of the cake. This has become my main version due to the preferences of others. However, I prefer the nuts on the bottom. I really love to use black walnuts, but english walnuts or even pecans work quite well. Also, you may omit the pineapples to make yet another version. The rum sauce is the finishing touch for the cake after it comes out of the oven. The rum sauce is optional but it really makes the cake special.

What makes the recipe great is that there no sacrifice in taste and the preparation time is a mere 10 minutes. It does require about 1 hour to bake in the oven.

The aroma of the cake usually brings everyone into the kitchen. Guests usually want to take some home with them. Therefore, I bake two most of the time because only a slice or two, if that, remains from the first cake.

Now that I have made your mouth water. I know that you want my recipe. The way to get my recipe is to join my website: Building Leaders of Tomorrow. Send user RumCake a private message and I will freely provide you with the recipe.