This is a recipe from Emily’s Gran. It is a Famous Rum Cake Recipe, everyone asks her to make it.
1 cup chopped pecans or walnuts
1 yellow cake mix (or you can make chocolate rum cake if you use chocolate cake mix)
1 3 3/4 oz. pkg Jell-O Vanilla Instant Pudding
4 eggs
1/2 c cold water
1/2 c vegetable oil
1/2 c Bacardi Dark Rum
Glaze
1/4 lb. Butter
1/4 c water
1 c granulated sugar
1/2 c Bacardi Dark Rum
Preheat oven to 325
Grease and flour 10″ tube or 12 cup Bundt pan. Sprinkle nuts over the bottom of the pan
Mix all cake ingredients together. Pour batter over nuts.
Bake 1 hour
cool
Invert on serving plate. Prick top
drizzle and smooth glaze evenly over top and sides
Allow cake to absorb glaze.Repeat until glaze is used up
For glaze
melt butter in saucepan. Stir in water and sugar Boil 5 minutes stirring constantly remove from heat and stir in rum.
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