My family requests this rummy bundt cake from me at all our get togethers.
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.
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.
And it was incredible.
Check out my blog for a wee bit o pirate history and baking directions in both pirate and english.
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.
This is the glaze you will drizzle on the cake while it is still in the bundt pan.
On our visit to the caribbean we brought home the best rum cake i ve ever had.
Combine butter water and sugar in a small saucepan.
Tortuga rum cake the perfect addition to any pirate party including talk like a pirate day.
While cake bakes combine 1 4 cup sugar and 1 4 cup water in a small saucepan.
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 recipe can be made as a full sized bundt cake or as mini bundt cakes.
This recipe is an approximation of the original.
It looked tempting so i brought it home and opened the box for a small taste of cake before dinner.
Butter and flour a bundt cake pan or butter a 9x13 sheet pan.
Preheat your oven to 325 f.
Next best to the original.
Tortuga rum cakes a taste of the caribbean.
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.
For over 25 years tortuga has brought the cayman islands the caribbean jamaican and bahamas the world the finest rum cakes.
The butter rum glaze makes it special.
Let absorb well then invert back onto platter.
Eugene witnessed my minor freak out as i raved over the moist.
Tortuga cayman island rum cake recipe.
My recipe for homemade rum cake started with a shopping spree at tj maxx.
For over 30 years we ve been making rum cakes with flavours like chocolate coconut key lime and many more.
Bring to a boil over medium and cook stirring occasionally until sugar is dissolved.
That s when carlene hamaty started baking rum cakes at home using a family recipe that had been handed down through generations.
She of course used tortuga rum as the main ingredient.
In fact it s the very best of all cakes i ve ever had.
Make the rum simple syrup.
You can not purchase tortuga rum anywhere except in 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.
