Rum Cake

Total Time: 1 hr 25 mins Preparation Time: 25 mins Cook Time: 1 hr

Ingredients

• 1 cup chopped walnuts or 1 cup pecans
• 1 (18 ounce) package yellow cake mix
• 1 (3 3/4 ounce) package vanilla flavor instant pudding and pie filling mix
• 4 eggs
• 1/2 cup cold water
• 1/2 cup vegetable oil
• 1/2 cup bacardi dark rum (80 proof )
• 1/2 cup butter
• 1/4 cup water
• 1 cup granulated sugar
• 1/2 cup bacardi dark rum (80 proof )

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 325 degrees.
• 2 grease and flour 10-inch tube or 12-cup bundt pan.
• 3 sprinkle nuts over bottom of pan.
• 4 mix all cake ingredients together.
• 5 pour batter over nuts.
• 6 bake 1 hour.
• 7 cool; invert onto serving plate. prick top with fork.
• 8 spoon and brush glaze evenly over top and sides.
• 9 glaze:.
• 10 melt butter in saucepan. stir in water and sugar.
• 11 boil for 5 minutes, stirring constantly, and remove from heat.
• 12 stir in rum. you may decorate with whipped cream before serving.
• 13 ** if using yellow cake mix with pudding already in the mix, omit the instant pudding, using 3 eggs instead of 4 and 1/3 cup oil instead of 1/2.
• 14 ** i also bake this cake 3 to 4 days ahead of time.***.