Mr and Mrs F are making Christmas Rum cake! (and hot buttered rum!)

PW’s Mother-in-Law’s Christmas Rum Cake

Added by Ree Drummond on July 18, 2009 in Cakes, Desserts

Prep Time 30 Minutes Cook Time 1 Hour

Servings 12

Difficulty Intermediate

Ingredients

• FOR THE CAKE:
• 1 box(es) (about 18 Oz.) Yellow Cake Mix
• 1 package (3.5 Oz.) INSTANT Vanilla Pudding Mix
• 4 whole Eggs
• ½ cups Cold Water
• ½ cups Canola Oil
• ½ cups Rum (dark Or Light Is Fine)
• 1 cup Chopped Pecans
• Brown Sugar (optional)
• _____
• GLAZE
• 1-½ stick Butter
• ¼ cups Water
• 1-½ cup Sugar
• ¾ cups Rum

Preparation Instructions

Preheat oven to 325 F.

Grease and flour a bundt cake pan. Sprinkle nuts over bottom of pan. If desired, sprinkle a couple of tablespoons of brown sugar over the nuts.

Mix all cake ingredients together. Pour batter into pan over nuts. Smooth out ’til the top is even. Bake for 1 hour, or a little less if the pan is black. Do not overbake!

Glaze:

While cake has ten minutes to go, make the glaze.
Melt butter in saucepan. Stir in water and sugar. Boil for 4 to 5 minutes, stirring constantly. Turn off flame and pour in rum. Stir to combine and reheat for 30 seconds.

Remove cake from oven. Immediately drizzle 1/3 of the glaze on the bottom (top) of the cake. Allow to sit for five minutes. Invert the cake onto a serving plate. Prick surface a hundred times with a fork (gently, please.) Slowly drizzle remaining rum glaze all over the top of the cake, allowing it to drip down the sides. Cool to room temperature before serving to ensure glaze has soaked in.
Eat. Enjoy. And don’t feel guilty. It’s Christmastime!

Hot Buttered Rum recipe

1 oz light rum
1 tsp sugar
1/2 tsp butter
4 cloves

Add the sugar, butter and cloves to a coffee mug. Pour the rum, and stir well. Fill with boiling water. Stir again, and serve.

Here's a picture of my Christmas Rum Cake! It's not as pretty as the Pioneer Woman's but it's just as tasty!

The Pioneer Woman never ceases to amaze me!

The Confessions of a Pioneer Woman website is the end all and be all of blogging. Ree is a self-proclaimed desperate housewife, but to me she is an true inspiration. I absolutely love her recipes, photography advice, and her wonderful ranch stories. One of my favorite parts of her website are the "Black Heels to Tractor Wheels" chapters that detail how she went from a city loving LA girl to marrying a cattle rancher and working the ranch that they live on.

Last winter, I made her recipe for the Christmas Rum Cake and it was divine.
Photos courtesy of the Pioneer Woman
I just noticed that she has a recent posting of an amazing recipe for Carmel Apple Sticky Buns! The picture alone makes me want to start drooling. I hope to make these in the near future!