RUM POUND CAKE WITH RUM GLAZE
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This delicate Totally Scratch-made Rum Pound Cake with Rum Glaze is incredibly moist, fragrant, and good for any season. It transports well and is full of booze, making it perfect for any holiday or potluck gathering.
Rum Pound Cake
I have many Pound Cake recipes in my repertoire. I have Whipping Cream Pound Cake Recipe, Cream Cheese Pound Cake, Sour Cream Pound Cake, Greek Yogurt Pound Cake, Chocolate Pound Cake, Blue Ribbon Pound Cake, and the list goes on and on. As I’ve stated before, desserts, particularly pound cake, are my favorite things to make.
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Ingredients
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- *Butter at room temperature
- Granulated sugar
- Large eggs at room temperature
- Buttermilk
- Rum
- All-purpose flour
- Salt
- Baking powder
- water
Buttermilk in pound cakes
I used *buttermilk (along with rum) as the liquid in this rum pound cake recipe. Buttermilk is amazing in cakes, muffins, rolls, and pancakes. It makes the baked goods soft, springy, and tender while the texture has the perfect density and fluffiness. Buttermilk is unparalleled to any other dairy in cakes.
Buttermilk owes its success as a baking ingredient to its acidity. A slightly acidic batter helps keep baked goods moist and tender by breaking down long, tough strands of gluten. And the acid is responsible for buttermilk’s thick consistency, which adds a soft, rich, creamy quality to whatever you’re baking.
As far as flavor, the tartness of buttermilk adds a pleasing, subtle tang to cakes and other baked goods.
I wrote the recipe in the recipe section below as clearly and descriptively as possible. Before making this Totally Scratch-made Rum Pound Cake with Rum Glaze recipe, read it over at least twice to know where you’re going and what’s next.
Totally Scratch-made Rum Pound Cake with Rum Glaze
- Read the recipe completely at least twice to know what comes next.
- A stand mixer will make your life immensely easier. I can’t imagine all this mixing by hand or even with a hand mixer!
- You can use a bundt pan. I used this tube pan. A good rule of thumb when baking pound cakes is to always leave 2 inches from the batter to the top of the pan to allow for rise. As well, always place your baking pan on a cookie sheet to catch any overflows.
- Allow your eggs,
butter , and dairy to come to room temperature before mixing. - I always use salted real
butter in my pound cakes. It’s a personal preference. You can use either salted or unsaltedbutter . I do recommend using realbutter, not margarine. - Use real
butter . No substitutions. - I recommend calibrating your oven at least once a year. Read all about how to Calibrate your oven in this post.
- You can substitute rum in this rum pound cake. If you don’t want to use rum, omit the 1/4 rum and use 1 cup buttermilk + 1 tablespoon rum extract in the cake. In the glaze, omit the rum and add 1 tablespoon of rum extract.
Totally Scratch-made Rum Pound Cake with Rum Glaze
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Save To Your Recipe BoxIngredients
Cake
- 1 cup butter at room temperature
- 3 cups granulated sugar
- 6 large eggs at room temperature
- 3/4 cup buttermilk
- 1/4 cup rum
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
Rum Glaze
- 1/2 cup butter
- 1/4 cup water
- 1 cup sugar
- 1/2 cup rum
Instructions
Cake
- Preheat the oven to 325°F. Grease a (10-inch, 12 cup) bundt or tube pan with solid vegetable shortening and sprinkle with sugar (or you can use flour). Alternately, you can use Wilton Cake Release.
- In the bowl of an electric mixer, combine butter and sugar until well mixed, light, and fluffy.
- Add eggs one at a time, mixing until the yellow disappears before adding the next egg.
- Combine flour, baking powder, and salt
- To the creamed mixture, add flour alternately with buttermilk and rum, beginning and ending with the flour mixture. Don’t over mix at this point.
- Spoon into prepared pan
- Bake 80 minutes at 325 degrees F
- Cool in the pan 20 minutes before inverting onto a serving tray.
- While cake is warm pour rum glaze over cake and allow to soak into the cake.Rum Glaze
- *Make rum sauce
Rum Glaze
- Melt Butter
- Stir in water and sugar
- Boil for 5 minutes stirring constantly
- Remove from heat and stir in rum
Notes
Nutrition
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Hi Paula. Love your recipes. What if I wanted to make a rum raisin pound cake? How much raisins would you suggest?
I’d put one cup of raisins in it. But, make sure that quantity isn’t too much for your baking pan. The batter should be at least 1.5 inches from the top of the pan or it may overflow.
Hi, I am wanting to make the rum cake & I’m a little confused. There is a Rum Glaze & a Rum Sauce? The rum glaze has a recipe but the rum sauce doesn’t that I can see. Are the measurements the same?
There’s just one, I mistakenly labeled them differently. It’s corrected now. Thanks
You mentioned you prefer salted butter. If using salted butter do you omit the salt from the recipe or is this in addition to?
I use salted butter and salt. If you’re concerned about it being too much salt, I would recommend using unsalted butter.
I am making the Totally Scratch -made Rum Pound Cake with Rum Glaze. I notice that 3 cups of sugar is in the cake and another 1 cup of sugar in the glaze totaling 4 cups of sugar. Is this correct? Also can I use 1/2 cup buttermilk and 1/2 cup of dark Bacardi rum.?
yes, the sugar amount is correct. Those ratios should work for buttermilk and rum
Looks really yummy! Looking forward to trying this recipe. Is it possible to reduce amount of sugar? If yes, about how much can i reduce it?
I recently made a pound cake and reduced the sugar to 2 cups. It wasn’t nearly sweet enough in my opinion but the texture, etc of the cake was not affected by the reduction. But also remember this is a large cake so 3 cups isn’t a whole lot when you break it down per slice. Enjoy!
This looks delicious I can’t wait to try it…
Is there any way I can use rum flavoring instead of the one with alcohol? If so, what would be the measurements? Thank you so much! 🙂
omit the 1/4 rum and use 1 cup buttermilk + 1 tablespoon rum extract in the cake. In the glaze, omit the rum and add 1 tablespoon rum extract.
The rum cake sounds delicious but I was wondering if I can add cream cheese to it, Cream Cheese Rum Cake sounds wonderful to me!
substitute the buttermilk with 6 ounces of cream cheese
Can I use shredded coconut this rum pound cake?
How would you adjust the rum pound cake recipe for baking at altitude?
I don’t have experience baking in high altitude but found this article that may help you. https://www.tasteofhome.com/article/how-to-overcome-the-challenges-of-high-altitude-baking/
Yesterday I baked the marble pound cake for the first time. The taste is amazing but the cake is a little dry. Is there a trick to make the cake more moist, maybe like punching holes in it and drizzling the icing over it?? Help please!!
You can poke holes in it. Most likely it was over-baked slightly.
I’m going to bake this in the morning. Do you sift your flour, baking powder and salt together and then measure, or do you measure 3 cup flour, whisk in the powder and salt and let it go at that?
Hey, I’m sorry for the late response, I’ve been out of town. Sift then measure.
I am about to make the rum pound cake but in New Zealand we don’t measure butter by the cup but in grams, I think a cup of butter is 225g. but if that is the case 3 cups of sugar seems too much as it is not really creaming .
I’m unclear on the rum sauce. Do you use it to pour on the cake while serving?
I poured it over the cake and let it soak into the cake. You can pour it over the cake when served if you prefer.
This looks amazing! I have some rum I picked up in the Carribean that I have been saving for something special. Can your pound cake recipes be divided into smaller loaf/mini bundt sizes? I think they would make great additions to my office gifts.
For a mini loaf, start checking at 25 minutes and check every 5 minutes with a wooden pick
Hi,
Which rum do you use? Which brand do you prefer?
For cooking, I like Bacardi Oakheart
Keeper definitely ! As soon as the heat goes away, I will enjoy making this one ! Thank you !
recipe calls for baking powder but directions say baking soda – which is the correct ingredient ?
baking powder
How much sour cream to substitute for buttermilk?