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Rum Cake

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La Niña

La Niña

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Oh god, me too. Baba au rhum, and all that too. In my family we make a yeast babka or kugelhupf and inject it with rum syrup. I often mix some rum into a white glaze and dribble it on top.

Toby

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What kind of rum cake are you talking about? Other than baba au rhum, the only kind of rum cake I've tasted is at a Jamaican restaurant on 14th St. between 2nd and 3rd Avenues in NY called Daphne's. They have a great rum cake. It's sort of a sponge cake with raisins and nuts on the bottom and a dark sugar topping (may be the other way around). The whole thing is soaked in rum, yet the cake isn't at all soupy tasting. They always have a whole cake on the counter and you can buy individual slices for $2.50.

Fat Guy

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What kind of rum cake are you talking about?

My friend just brought some back from St. Croix. I liked it. I like rum cake.

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Toby

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What kind of rum cake are you talking about?

My friend just brought some back from St. Croix. I liked it. I like rum cake.

Are you going to describe it?

Fat Guy

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I guess I'd call it pound cake soaked in a rum-based syrup. There were two cakes, one plain and one with banana. The plain was better.

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Jason Perlow

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Luis Ayala's RumShop.net had a big roundup of commercial rumcakes recently in their November 2002 Newsletter:

http://www.rumshop.net/newsletters/november2002.pdf

You'll need Adobe Acrobat Reader (click) to read it.

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Jaymes

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I too love rum cake. Make it with spiced rum. Even better. :rolleyes:

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Tonyfinch

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We go to Grand Cayman every Easter to visit close friends who work/live there. Rum cake is probably the only thing worth buying there. Everyday thousands of Americans off those massive cruise ships shamble around Georgetown looking for something worth buying and end up going back to their ships with pounds of rum cake.

They do plain, coffee, banana, chocolate,and a fruit one I believe. Personally I never think there's enough rum in them and I end up giving a piece a douse from the bottle. But then I'm in it for the rum rather than the cake.

Kristian

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Haven't found a (commercial) rum cake to my liking yet, but:

Since it's Christmas, I baked two date cakes last weekend (harrumph... cakes with dates in them, kind of like English Fruit Cakes, but with dates). I added some rum into both of them (different rums to compare) and I have to say that both of them came out perfect!

The rums were Captain Morgan and El Dorado (both from the cheap, kitchen rum end of the spectrum).

EDIT: typo.

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John von Pey

John von Pey

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Hello all,

I am looking for recipies of rumcakes, since I am not able to find them commercially in my part of The Netherlands. I just returned from she shopping centre, and "only" found baba rum. I'm gonna try this later this evening :raz:

Furthermore I've been making a Christmas pudding, based on a recipy that was printed in the newspaper (but added a very very very :blink: small touch of rum).

But, as mentioned, if someone would like to share a rumcake recipe with me, please email me at john.von.pey@xs4all.nl!

John

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