Rum Raisin Cake Food

RUM AND RAISIN CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease one 9 or 10 inch tube pan.
• Boil water add rum and raisins. Melt butter and beat egg. Add to the raisin mixture.
• Sift flour, baking soda, cocoa, and sugar together. Stir into raisin mixture. Add chopped pecans and stir until just combined. If batter is too thick add a little more water. Pour batter into prepared pan.
• Bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for 40 to 50 minutes. Let cake cool in the pan for 10 minutes then turn out onto a serving dish. Serve cake hot with custard or top cooled cake with whipped cream.

RUM-RAISIN CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Use 1 tablespoon butter to grease an 8-inch tube pan. Place remaining butter in a small saucepan and cook on medium until melted and starting to turn nut-brown. Remove from heat, let sit a few minutes, then pour into a glass measuring cup, leaving any dark sediment in bottom of pan. Set butter aside. Place raisins in a bowl and pour 2/3 cup rum over raisins. Sift flour, cinnamon, baking powder and salt into another bowl.
• Beat eggs until light. Beat in sugar and continue beating, about 5 minutes, until very light and creamy. Drain raisins, reserving rum. Add flour mixture to egg mixture alternately with drained rum. Fold in brown butter, leaving any sediment in bottom of cup. Fold in raisins. Spread in pan and bake 40 minutes until lightly browned and tester comes out clean. Spoon remaining 3 tablespoons rum over cake. Cool. Remove from pan. Pile whipped cream in center and serve.

RUM CAKE - SEMI-HOMEMAKER RECIPE

Steps:

• For the cake: Grease a Bundt pan and spread pecans on the bottom of the pan. Beat eggs, oil, water and rum in mixer just until incorporated. Add pudding mix and cake mix and beat on med, about 3 to 5 minutes just until you get a smooth texture. Pour into pan and bake at 350 degrees F for 40 to 45 minutes. The cake should have a light golden brown color, but will darken with the glaze.
• For the glaze: Melt butter in saucepan and add the sugar and water, bring to a boil. Once it starts to boil, take off the heat and add the rum. Pour into a large measuring cup that will hold that amount or more. Set aside.
• Once cake is ready, take out of oven and leave in pan. Gently prick holes into the cake with a skewer. Slowly pour half of the glaze over the cake making sure to fill in all the holes. Once the cake has soaked up the glaze, turn cake over, removing pan, onto the base that the cake will stay on. Gently prick more holes on other side and slowly pour other half of glaze over cake. Fill the center of the cake with reserved pecans. Let cool and enjoy. The cake is best if left at room temperature.

HOLIDAY RUM & RAISIN CAKE

Steps:

• Combine raisins and rum; cover and stand until rum is absorbed.
• Stir together: flour, baking powder, salt. Blend butter, sugar, eggs, and vanilla in a large bowl on low speed.
• Beat on high speed for 5 minutes, scraping down sides often.
• Add dry ingredients to creamed mixture alternatly with cream.
• Stir in raisins and turn into baking pans. Preheat oven to 350 degrees and bake: 12 cup bundt pan - 70 to 80 minutes; or 2-6 cup bundt pan - 40 to 45 minutes.
• This cake gets very brown on top. Cool 10 minutes, then remove from pans.
• Brush with Rum & Butter Glaze.
• Allow cake to absorb and repeat until glaze is used up.
• GLAZE: Melt ½ cup butter in saucepan; add 1 cup sugar and ¼ cup water.
• Boil for 5 minutes, stirring constantly. Remove from heat and stir in ½ cup rum. Cool slightly.

APPLE RUM RAISIN CAKE (GLUTEN-FREE, LOW-GI)

Steps:

• In a small sauce pan, place apple pieces, lemon juice, raisins, sugar, cinnamon, and water and cook under medium heat for about 10 minutes until the apples become soft.
• Add rum and mix. Turn off heat and set it aside.
• Preheat oven to 350ºF/180ºC degrees and spray the cake pan with oil.
• In a bowl, combine almond meal, coconut flour, sugar, and baking powder.
• Add beaten eggs, melted butter, apple sauce, and almond extract and mix.
• Add the apple and raisin mixture and walnut pieces (if using) and mix.
• Bake for about 40 minutes.
• When the cake is no longer hot, remove from the pan and cool on a wire rack. Dust with powdered sugar (optional).
• Infuse love, slice and serve.

BANANA RUM RAISIN CAKE

Steps:

• Put the raisins in a bowl and pour the rum over top. Cover and let sit for at least an hour or overnight, stirring occasionally.
• Preheat the oven to 350°F (175°C).
• Butter a 12 cup Bundt pan.
• Sift the flour, baking soda, salt and nutmeg together into a large bowl.
• Cream the butter and sugar together using an electric mixer.
• Beat in the beaten eggs.
• Add the bananas and beat in on low speed.
• Add the buttermilk and flour alternately in four additions, beginning and ending with the flour.
• Remove the mixing bowl from the electric mixer and thoroughly fold in the raisins and any remaining rum with a wooden spoon.
• Transfer the batter to the prepared Bundt pan.
• Bake for 50 to 60 minutes, or until a skewer inserted in the cake comes out clean.
• Cool in the pan for 15 minutes, and then remove the cake carefully from the pan. Cool completely on a wire rack.
• To make the glaze, add the rum gradually (a tablespoon or less at a time) to the icing sugar to make a thick glaze. You may not need all the rum. Beat in the honey until the glaze is thick and glossy. Drizzle over cooled cake.

APPLE RUM RAISIN CAKE

Steps:

• In a bowl cream the butter, then beat in the sugars until light and fluffy.
• Beat in the eggs.
• Sift together the flour, baking powder, salt, soda, cinnamon and nutmeg.
• Add dry ingredients alternately with the undiluted evaporated milk and rum to the creamed mixture, Mix in the chopped apples, raisins and nuts.
• Pour into a greased 9x12x2 inch baking pan.
• Bake at 350 for 40 minutes or until cake springs back when done.

RUM RAISIN CAKE

Steps:

• Mash bananas to make 1 cup.
• Combine with milk.
• Cream sugar and butter light and fluffy. Beat in eggs until blended.
• Combine flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt and allspice.
• Beat 1/3 flour mixture into egg mixture until blended.
• Beat 1/2 banana mixture until blended. Repeat ending with flour mixture.
• Beat in rum until well blended, stir in raisins.
• Pour into 2 well greased or parchment paper covered loaf cake pans.
• Bake in 350 degree oven for 50 minute Invert on wire rack to cool.
• For a few days I brush rum on top to give it extra flavor.

RUM RAISIN POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°; butter an 8- or 9-inch flat-bottomed tube pan; dust with all-purpose flour, invert over the kitchen sink, and tap to remove excess.
• To soften the raisins--place in a steam basket in a medium saucepan and steam for 1 minute over boiling water (do not submerge the raisins or they will absorb too much water).
• Spread them out over several layers of paper towels and dry thoroughly.
• Using a triple sifter, sift together the flour, baking powder, salt, and cinnamon; set aside.
• Cut the butter into 1-inch pieces and place it along with the rinds in the bowl of an electric stand mixer fitted with paddle attachment.
• Soften on low speed.
• Increase speed to med-high and cream until smooth and light in color, about 1 1/2 to 2 minutes.
• Add in sugar, 1 tablespoon at a time, taking 6-8 minutes to blend it in well; scrape the sides of the bowl occasionally.
• Add in eggs, 1 at a time at 1-minute intervals, scraping the sides of the bowl again.
• Blend in the vanilla.
• Decrease mixer speed to low; add the dry ingredients in three additions alternately with the rum in two additions, mixing until incorporated after each addition; mix the batter for 15 seconds longer.
• Remove bowl from mixer and fold in raisins with a rubber spatula.
• Spoon batter into prepared pan; smooth the surface with the back of a tablespoon.
• Center the pan on the rack and bake for 45-50 minutes, or until the cake is golden brown on top and begins to come away from the sides of the pan; or toothpick inserted into the center comes out dry.
• Remove cake from oven; set on a cake rack for 10-15 minutes; invert cake onto a rack and remove the pan.
• Turn cake top side up onto a second cake rack to cool at room temperature.
• Cut a double thickness of cheesecloth to measure approximately 18 x 24 inches.
• Saturate in 1/4 cup dark Jamaican rum; open the rum soaked cheesecloth and stretch flat on an 18-inch square of heavy-duty foil; arrange cake in the center of the cheesecloth.
• Wrap the cloth over the cake by lifting the ends and bringing them to the center.
• Then wrap tightly in foil; place the cake in a plastic bag and seal; let stand at room temperature overnight.
• The following day, remove the foil and unwrap the cake; remoisten the cheesecloth with an additional 1/4 cup rum; rewrap the cake in the cheesecloth and foil and return to the plastic bag to age for 2-3 days or up to 10 days.
• It is not necessary to remoisten the cheesecloth after the second day.
• Wrap leftover cake in the cheesecloth; store in plastic wrap or foil at room temperature for up to 10 days.

RUM RAISIN POUND CAKE WITH COCONUT GLAZE

Steps:

• Combine the raisins and rum in a small bowl and soak for several hours or overnight.
• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Butter and flour a 12-cup Bundt pan or ring pan.
• Combine the flour, baking powder and salt in a medium bowl. Set aside.
• Beat the butter in the bowl of an electric mixer until light and fluffy. Gradually beat in the sugar. Beat until fluffy, 2 to 3 minutes.
• Beat in the eggs 2 at a time, beating well after each addition. Add the vanilla and beat on low to combine. With a rubber spatula, gently fold in the flour mixture. Fold in the raisins with their soaking liquid.
• Pour the batter into the prepared pan. Bake until the top is golden and a cake tester or toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean, about 1 hour.
• While the cake is baking, make the glaze: Whisk the confectioners' sugar and coconut milk together in a small bowl until there are no lumps; add more coconut milk or sugar to reach the consistency of school glue.
• Cool the cake in the pan on a wire rack for 5 minutes. Remove the cake from the pan and place on the rack. While the cake is still warm, drizzle the coconut glaze over the top and sprinkle with the shredded coconut.

RUM-RAISIN POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F. Butter and flour 12-cup Bundt pan. Toss raisins with 2 tablespoons flour in small bowl. Combine remaining flour, baking powder and salt in medium bowl. Using electric mixer, beat butter in large bowl until light. Add 1 2/3 cups sugar and beat until fluffy. Add eggs 2 at a time, beating after each addition until well blended. Beat in 6 tablespoons rum and vanilla. Mix in flour mixture. Fold in raisin mixture. Spoon batter into prepared pan.
• Bake cake until top is golden and tester inserted near center comes out clean, about 1 hour. Cool in pan on rack 10 minutes. Turn out cake onto rack and cool completely.
• Stir powdered sugar and 1 tablespoon rum in bowl until smooth. Mix in cream. Spoon over cake. Let stand until glaze is set, about 30 minutes.