Golden Rum Cake - Happy Halloween!!

Golden Rum Cake 

I purchased the cookbook "Booze Cakes" this last summer and I am still trying the various recipes.  This weekend I made the Golden Rum Cake, let me just say scrumptious!!!

You must try this recipe it is a keeper for sure.

Golden Rum Cake:

1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter
2 cups sugar
4 eggs
3 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/8 teaspoon salt
1 cup milk
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
3/4 cup dark rum

Golden Rum Glaze:
4 tablespoons (1/2 stick) unsalted butter
1 cup sugar
1/2 cup dark rum

Finishing:
3 tablespoons confectioners' sugar

Prepare:

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. grease and flour a 9 or 10-inch bundt or tube cake pan.

Make:

2. In a mixing bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs one at a time, beating after each addition.

3. Combine flour, baking powder, baking soda, and slat. In another bowl, combine milk vanilla, and rum. Beat flour mixture and milk mixture into the butter in three alternation additions. Pour batter into the prepared pan. Bake 1 hour, or until golden brown.

Finish:

4. For the glaze: Melt butter in a saucepan over low heat. Stir in sugar and 1/4 cup water and bring to a boil; cook 5 minutes, stirring constantly. Remove from heat and stir in rum.

5. Place cake on a serving platter. Slowly pour glaze over top and sides until completely absorbed. Dust with confectioners' sugar.