Easy Rum Cake
Ingredients
- 1 cup chopped walnuts
- 1 (15.25 ounce) package yellow cake mix
- 4 large eggs
- ½ cup dark rum
- ½ cup water
- ½ cup vegetable oil
- 1 (3.5 ounce) package instant vanilla pudding mix
- ½ cup butter
- ½ cup white sugar
- ⅛ cup water
- ¼ cup rum
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Instructions
- Gather all ingredients. Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Grease and flour a 10-inch Bundt or tube pan.
- To make the cake: Sprinkle walnuts over the bottom of the prepared pan; set aside.
- Mix cake mix, eggs, dark rum, water, oil, and vanilla pudding mix together in a large bowl until well combined. Pour batter over walnuts in the pan.
- Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, about 1 hour.
- Cool, then invert cake onto a serving plate. Gently prick holes into the top and sides of cake with a toothpick or skewer.
- To make the glaze: Melt butter in a saucepan over medium heat. Stir sugar and water into melted butter; bring to a boil.
- Cook, stirring constantly, for 5 minutes. Remove glaze from heat; stir in rum.
- Drizzle warm glaze over top and sides of cake.
Source
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