Mary Lou's Rum Cake
Very good! Prepare sauce before cake is done. Wet cake, stores and freezes well. Mary Lou Still makes and takes her famous rum cake to gatherings and neighbors. It is always a welcome treat. She shared her recipe with her secret ingredient - use only Captain Morgan's Spiced Rum.
Ingredients
Cake
  • 1C Pecans, chopped
  • 18 oz Duncan Hines Butter Golden Cake Mix
  • 13 oz Instant Vanilla Pudding
  • 1/2C Milk
  • 4 Eggs
  • 1/2C Captain Morgan's Spiced Run
  • 1/2tsp Cinnamon
  • 1/4tsp Nutmeg
Sauce
  • 1C Sugar
  • 1Stick Margarine
  • 1/4C Water
  • 1/4C Captain Morgan's Spiced Run
Instructions
Cake
  1. Grease Bundt pan with margarine
  2. Spread pecans in pan.
  3. Mix remaining ingredients in bowl
  4. Pour into Bundt pan
  5. Bake at 325 degrees for 50 - 60 minutes
Sauce
  1. About 10 minutes before cake is done, combine all ingredients for sauce in pan
  2. Boil ingredients for sauce for 2 - 3 minutes.
  3. When cake is done, leave in pan.
  4. Prick cake and pour sauce over hot cake in pan.
  5. Let cool 10 minutes
  6. Shake cake to release from pan.