Twelfth Night Rum Cake

This cake often served as the “king’s cake” at the annual Dolby family Twelfth Night party. The male and female who found the hidden beans beneath a slice of cake got to wear a crown for the evening!

CAKE: 1 cup chopped pecans or walnuts 1 package yellow cake mix with pudding in the mix 4 eggs ½ c cold water ½c vegetable oil ½ c Bacardi dark rum

DIRECTIONS Preheat oven to 325⁰. Grease and flour a bundt or springform pan. Sprinkle nuts evenly over bottom of pan. Mix all cake ingredients together. Pour batter over nuts. Bake for one hour or until cake starts to pull away from sides of pan. Cool until lukewarm.

Turn cake over onto serving plate. Prick all over with a shark fork.

MAKE GLAZE: ¼ c butter ¼ c water 1 c sugar ½ c Bacardi dark rum

Heat butter, sugar and water until smooth. Boil for 5 minutes, stirring constantly. Add rum.

While glaze is still warm, spoon and brush glaze evenly over top and sides of cake. Allow glaze to be absorbed, and repeat until glaze is used up.

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