Mom's Bacardi Rum Cake

prep time:: 30 min
total time:: 2 hr

Makes 1 bundt cake

There are several people so addicted to this cake that they demand one for the holidays each and every year - and my mom kindly obliges. (I’m not that nice). But I’ve been known to wield the rum cake when it suits my motives ;-)

ingredients

Cake:
1 cup chopped pecans or walnuts
1 18oz. package yellow cake mix
1 3-3/4 oz. package Jello Vanilla Instant Pudding
4 eggs
1/2 cup cold water
1/2 cup vegetable oil
1/2 cup dark rum
Glaze:
1/4 lb. butter
1/4 cup water
1 cup sugar
1/2 cup dark rum

directions

1
Cake:
2
Preheat the oven to 325. Grease and flour a 10 or 12 cup Bundt pan and sprinkle nuts over bottom of pan.
3
Mix all cake ingredients together. Pour batter over nuts and bake 1 hour. Cool and invert onto a plate.
4
Glaze:
5
Melt butter in small saucepan. Stir in water and sugar. Boil 5 minutes, stirring constantly. Remove from heat and stir in rum.
6
Prick top of cake all over with a toothpick or skewer. Spoon glaze evenly over top and sides. Repeat until glaze is used up.