Tortuga Gold Rum Cake Recipe

I then thought i d send for some to be shipped to us and found the price to be 35 for the med.

Tortuga gold rum cake recipe.

Tortuga rum cake the perfect addition to any pirate party including talk like a pirate day. It looked tempting so i brought it home and opened the box for a small taste of cake before dinner. For over 30 years we ve been making rum cakes with flavours like chocolate coconut key lime and many more. I can only bake so much booze infused goodies i found this recipe and used 1 2 tortuga rum and 1 2 myers dark rum and added vanilla bean paste into every step i only owned bacardi and well i wanted something special for this cake.

1 2 cup butter for the third time do not use margarine 1 4 cup water 1 cup sugar 1 2 cup tortuga gold rum 1. My family requests this rummy bundt cake from me at all our get togethers. The butter rum glaze makes it special. Bring to a boil over medium and cook stirring occasionally until sugar is dissolved.

On our visit to the caribbean we brought home the best rum cake i ve ever had. Next best to the original. This recipe can be made as a full sized bundt cake or as mini bundt cakes. While cake bakes combine 1 4 cup sugar and 1 4 cup water in a small saucepan.

I knew i wanted to make rum cake some day with my tortuga rum but needed to do some research and wait for the right time. Butter and flour a bundt cake pan or butter a 9x13 sheet pan. Preheat your oven to 325 f. That s when carlene hamaty started baking rum cakes at home using a family recipe that had been handed down through generations.

Tortuga cayman island rum cake recipe. Place the flour sugar baking powder salt cut butter and vegetable oil into the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with a paddle attachment or into a large mixing bowl to use a hand mixer. See sometime back in november i made the mistake of buying a tiny box of tortuga rum cake that i saw on sale at our nearby store. Combine butter water and sugar in a small saucepan.

Check out my blog for a wee bit o pirate history and baking directions in both pirate and english. Make the rum simple syrup. My recipe for homemade rum cake started with a shopping spree at tj maxx. Eugene witnessed my minor freak out as i raved over the moist.

In fact it s the very best of all cakes i ve ever had. She of course used tortuga rum as the main ingredient. This is the glaze you will drizzle on the cake while it is still in the bundt pan. Let absorb well then invert back onto platter.

An easy way to glaze your cake is to pour half of the glaze into bundt pan reinsert cake then pour the rest of glaze over the bottom of the cake. The tortuga rum cake story officially began in 1987. This recipe is an approximation of the original. And it was incredible.

Size i paid 18 on the island so my search for the recipe began.