Pour the batter into the bundt tin and bake for 50–60 minutes, until an inserted skewer comes out clean. Place Basic Cake Mix, pudding mix, milk, eggs, rum, oil, and vanilla extract in a large bowl and combine on medium speed with electric mixer for 2 to 3 minutes, scrape down the bowl halfway through. To prepare the batter, you’ll use the same process as with the basic recipe except add in the new citrus ingredients. I love the way this cake smells when it is baking in the oven. It perfumes the whole house! When I visit the Caribbean, I am usually so filled with delicious home cooking from my family that I am not usually looking for cakes when I am getting ready to leave. This cake is not simply infused with rum flavor so that you just get a slight aftertaste. This cake is drunk with rum, literally, as the methodology involves feeding the cake with a rum syrup after it has been baked.

Caribbean Rum Cake is a soft and moist cake to be enjoyed during holiday time or any special occasion!This from scratch version of Caribbean Rum Cake is super soft and moist and drunk with rum – as it should be!Grease and flour a 27-cm bundt pan or fluted cake tin and sprinkle the bottom with the chopped walnuts.

I hope with all this talk of rum and the delicious recipes you saw this week, you have been inspired to plan your next vacation to the Caribbean. Looking for ideas? How about Dominica? With its unspoiled beauty, it is a great destination for nature lovers! You will find many versions of this cake recipe online and in Caribbean cookbooks, however most of them use vanilla pudding mix in the batter. I always try to cook with natural products whenever possible, so I wanted to come up with a from scratch version but that would still have the moist and tender crumb but does not include processed pudding mix. Therefore mine is a bit of a departure from the original recipe, but still has the same soft and moist tender crumb. This cake is inspired by the popular Tortuga rum cake and is now requested by family year after year. If you want to impress your future in-laws, bake them a Caribbean Rum Cake. Well, that’s what I did. My then guy friend, who is now my husband, invited me to his house for Thanksgiving soon after we met. I wanted to bring something that was delicious yet a little risky. Rum cake became a clear and obvious choice to bring.However, I was at a food festival a few weeks ago when I tasted this type of Rum Cake and I knew I had to figure out how to replicate it. The vendor was so nice and explained to me how she made it. Remove from heat and stir in the rum.Slowly begin to pour the syrup over the cake {while still warm, but it doesn’t have to be immediately}.