Tortuga Gold Rum Cake Recipe

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.

Tortuga gold rum cake recipe.

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. This is the glaze you will drizzle on the cake while it is still in the bundt pan. Tortuga rum cake the perfect addition to any pirate party including talk like a pirate day. Let absorb well then invert back onto platter.

Preheat your oven to 325 f. Eugene witnessed my minor freak out as i raved over the moist. This recipe can be made as a full sized bundt cake or as mini bundt cakes. The tortuga rum cake story officially began in 1987.

It looked tempting so i brought it home and opened the box for a small taste of cake before dinner. Make the rum simple syrup. Bring to a boil over medium and cook stirring occasionally until sugar is dissolved. While cake bakes combine 1 4 cup sugar and 1 4 cup water in a small saucepan.

On our visit to the caribbean we brought home the best rum cake i ve ever had. 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. 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. Butter and flour a bundt cake pan or butter a 9x13 sheet pan.

Combine butter water and sugar in a small saucepan. 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. My recipe for homemade rum cake started with a shopping spree at tj maxx. My family requests this rummy bundt cake from me at all our get togethers.

For over 30 years we ve been making rum cakes with flavours like chocolate coconut key lime and many more. Check out my blog for a wee bit o pirate history and baking directions in both pirate and english. Size i paid 18 on the island so my search for the recipe began. Tortuga cayman island rum cake recipe.

The butter rum glaze makes it special. You can not purchase tortuga rum anywhere except in the caribbean. She of course used tortuga rum as the main ingredient. Next best to the original.

In fact it s the very best of all cakes i ve ever had. That s when carlene hamaty started baking rum cakes at home using a family recipe that had been handed down through generations. For over 25 years tortuga has brought the cayman islands the caribbean jamaican and bahamas the world the finest rum cakes. Tortuga rum cakes a taste of the caribbean.

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.