Lovely moist cake. I usually make it around New Years, makes a nice looking dessert for a buffet and the taste is rich and wonderful. From a magazine add, many years ago. Be sure to read all the way to the end first, if you have a cake mix with pudding in it.
1½ hours | 20 min prep
SERVES 10 -12
1 cup chopped pecans or chopped walnuts
1 (520 g) package yellow cake mix (You just use the cake mix as is, do not add other ingredients listed on cake box.Butter flavored is REALLY good!))
1 (92 g) package vanilla instant pudding mix
4 eggs
1/2 cup cold water
1/2 cup cooking oil
1/2 cup amber rum or 1873 rum
Glaze
1/2 cup butter
1/4 cup water
1 cup sugar
1/2 cup amber rum or 1873 rum
Sprinkle nuts over bottom of greased 10 inch tube pan or 12 cup bundt pan.
Stir together cake mix, pudding mix, eggs, water, oil and rum.
Pour batter over nuts.
Bake at 325 in oven for 1 hour.
Cool 10 minutes in pan.
Invert onto serving plate and prick top.
Glaze-----------------.
Melt butter in saucepan.
Stir in water and sugar.
Boil 5 minutes, stirring constantly.
Remove from heat.
Stir in rum.
Brush glaze evenly over top and sides of cake.
Allow cake to absorb glaze.
If using yellow cake mix WITH pudding already in the mix, omit instant pudding, use 3 eggs instead of 4, and 1/3 cup oil instead of 1/2 cup.
Classic and easy! I made mini-bundts because I couldn't find my large bundt pan. The recipe made 12 baby bundts and they baked for about 30-minutes. I also added a teaspoon of the glaze in the bottom of the individual pans with the pecans to make the cakes release easier after baking. Thank you! This recipe will be a family favorite for a really long time!
P.S.This is Jeane talking..... I found that if you let your cake rest for 10 minutes after removing from oven, but before turning it out onto your cake pan,(and you reserve about 1/2 cup of syrup), but you poke holes in the cake with a bamboo skewer and you pour the cooled syrup onto the cake while it is still in your cake mold, you will have a very moist, and yummy tasting cake. After you put your cake on your cake pan, you can pour the reserved 1/2 cup over the cake for a glaze.