Holiday Rum Cake

Name: Holiday Rum Cake
Yield: Serves 8 to 10
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 1 cup, pecans, toasted and chopped fine; 1/2 cup packed (3 1/2 ounces), light brown sugar; 6 tablespoons, unsalted butter, softened; Batter for, recipe; 2/3 cup (4 2/3 ounces), granulated sugar; 1/2 cup, dark rum; 2 tablespoons, water; 1 cup (4 ounces), confectioners' sugar

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Appears in Cook's Country December/January 2012

Desserts or Baked Goods

American

Cakes

Great American Cakes

SERVES8 to 10

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

Most rum cakes lack any real rum flavor. For an assertive-yet-balance rum-flavored cake, we add rum to the bundt cake batter and then brush the finished cake with a rum soak. And we don’t stop there, a portion of the rum soak also becomes t...

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