Oh, you can search for hours, and not find anything. And though box cake and pudding mix can make for a tasty cake, it's a bit of an internal struggle for those of us who believe in doing things the old fashioned way.
After making the same faked rum cake time after time, I decided it was high time to just experiment.
I took three different recipes and smooshed 'em together; a typical rum cake recipe, a relatives apple cake recipe, and an applesauce cake recipe of my own design.
And the results were scrumptious. If I were a scrooge, I would keep the recipe from you. But since I love spreading food joy, here it be!
Cake
2 1/2 cups all purpose flour
2 cups white sugar
1 1/2 tsp BK soda
1 1/2 tsp salt
1/4 tsp BK powder
1 1/2 tsp cinnamon
1 1/2 cups fine chopped apples (Granny smith)
1/4 cup water
1/4 cup milk (Whole)
1/4 cup Bacardi rum
1/2 cup lard (Don't shake your head, just trust me)
2 eggs
1 cup fine chopped walnuts
Glaze
1/2 cup butter (No margarine!)
1/4 cup water
1 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup rum
1/2 tsp salt
Mix all ingredients until smooth (well, as smooth as possible, with the apples). Grease and flour a 9.75 x 3.38 inch bundt pan, and sprinkle nuts in the bottom. Pour batter into pan, bake at 350* for 40-45 minutes, or until pick inserted comes out clean. Make glaze. Melt butter in saucepan. Add sugar, water, salt, and rum. Bring to rolling boil for just a few minutes. Flip cake out onto serving platter, and drench in glaze. Be generous, go on. Let sit, or nom immediately. The cake will keep, if covered, for several days (If you don't nom your way happily through it).
Enjoy! A rum cake free of Narsty mixes!
Enjoy! A rum cake free of Narsty mixes!
