Homemade Lime Rum Cake This rum cake recipe is made from scratch, with rum baked into a delicious yellow bundt cake and drizzled with a butter-rum sauce. Actually, it's probably more accurately called butter rum cake, since the key ingredient to its decadence would make Paula Dean proud. This rum and citrus-infused cake will be your new favorite dessert.

Ingredients of Homemade Lime Rum Cake

  1. You need of Cake.
  2. You need 2 cups of all-purpose flour.
  3. Prepare 1 1/2 cup of sugar.
  4. It's 3.5 oz of instant vanilla pudding.
  5. It's 2 tsp of baking powder.
  6. Prepare 1 tsp of kosher salt.
  7. Prepare 1 stick of unsalted butter softened.
  8. It's 1/2 cup of canola oil.
  9. You need 1/2 cup of milk room temp.
  10. Prepare 4 of eggs.
  11. It's 1/2 cup of rum (I used bacardi lime).
  12. Prepare 2 tsp of vanilla extract.
  13. You need 1/4 cup of lime juice.
  14. Prepare of Cooking spray.
  15. Prepare of Rum soak.
  16. You need 1 stick of unsalted butter.
  17. It's 1 cup of sugar.
  18. Prepare 1/4 cup of water.
  19. It's 1/4 tsp of kosher salt.
  20. It's 1/2 cup of rum.
  21. Prepare 1 tsp of vanilla extract.
  22. You need 2 tbsp of lime juice.
  23. You need of Glaze.
  24. Prepare 1 1/4 cup of powdered sugar.
  25. It's 3 tbsp of lime juice.

Homemade Lime Rum Cake step by step

  1. Preheat oven to 325°; Spray a bundt cake pan with cooking spray.
  2. For the CAKE: In a bowl mix flour, sugar, pudding, baking powder, salt, butter, and canola oil until batter has a sand consistency; Add in milk and eggs until batter is smooth.
  3. Pour batter into bundt pan; Smooth top.
  4. Bake for 45-55 minutes; Then let cake cool slightly.
  5. For RUM SOAK: Combine butter, sugar, salt, water, and rum in a sauce pan; Bring to a boil over high heat; Reduce heat to low and simmer until it is slightly thickened.
  6. Transfer syrup into bowl and add vanilla and lime juice.
  7. With a skewer poke holes all over the cake.
  8. Pour syrup all over the cake small amounts at a time allowing the syrup to soak in between pours.
  9. Cover the pan loosely with plastic wrap and let the cake sit for AT LEAST 8 HOURS; Transfer onto cake plate.
  10. For LIME GLAZE: Whisk powdered sugar and lime juice together in a bowl.
  11. Pour the glaze on top of the cake.
  12. ENJOY!!.

I can't even tell you how many rum cakes I went through to get the winning recipe, but it was a lot! Rum Cake makes a classic holiday dessert and this easy, yet elegant rum cake recipe will quickly become a festive favorite! There's no cake or pudding mix involved but this homemade rum cake is even more delicious! Reviewers love it and it's always the hit of holiday parties. Learn how to make Rum Cake with Key Lime Buttercream.

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