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.

One slice of cake.

Rum Pound Cake

I have many Pound Cake recipes in my repertoire. I have Whipping Cream Pound Cake RecipeCream Cheese Pound CakeSour Cream Pound CakeGreek Yogurt Pound CakeChocolate Pound CakeBlue Ribbon Pound Cake, and the list goes on and on. As Iโ€™ve stated before, desserts, particularly pound cake, are my favorite things to make.

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

Equipment

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 buttermilkโ€™s thick consistency, which adds a soft, rich, creamy quality to whatever youโ€™re baking.

As far as flavor, the tartness of buttermilk adds a pleasing, subtle tang to cakes and other baked goods.

Flatlay view of cake.

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 youโ€™re going and whatโ€™s next.

 Whole bundt cake on platter

Totally Scratch-made Rum Pound Cake with Rum Glaze

  1. Read the recipe completely at least twice to know what comes next.
  2. A stand mixer will make your life immensely easier. I can’t imagine all this mixing by hand or even with a hand mixer!
  3. 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.
  4. Allow your eggs, butter, and dairy to come to room temperature before mixing.
  5. I always use salted real butter in my pound cakes. Itโ€™s a personal preference. You can use either salted or unsalted butter. I do recommend using real butter, not margarine.
  6. Use real butter. No substitutions.
  7. I recommend calibrating your oven at least once a year. Read all about how to Calibrate your oven in this post.
  8. 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.
Rum Pound Cake

Totally Scratch-made Rum Pound Cake with Rum Glaze

Totally Scratch-made Rum Pound Cake with Rum Glaze is incredibly delicate, moist, fragrant, and good for any season. It transports well and is full of boozy goodness. It’s perfect for any holiday or potluck gathering. 
Author: Paula
4.88 from 57 votes
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Prep Time: 20 minutes
Cook Time: 1 hour 20 minutes
Total Time: 1 hour 40 minutes
Servings: 16 slices

Ingredients

Cake

Rum Glaze

Instructions

Cake

  • Preheat the oven to 325ยฐF. Grease a (10-inch, 12 cup) bundt orย tube panย withย solid vegetable shorteningย and sprinkle with sugar (or you can use flour). Alternately, you can useย 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.ย 
  • While cake is warm pour rum glaze over cake and allow to soak into the cake.Rum Glaze
  • *Make rumย sauce

Rum Glaze

  • Melt Butter
  • Stir in water and sugar
  • Boil for 5 minutes stirring constantly
  • Remove from heat and stir in rum

Nutrition

Calories: 488kcal | Carbohydrates: 69g | Protein: 5g | Fat: 19g | Saturated Fat: 12g | Cholesterol: 108mg | Sodium: 225mg | Potassium: 79mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 51g | Vitamin A: 639IU | Calcium: 36mg | Iron: 1mg

Nutritional information given is an automatic calculation and can vary based on the exact products you use and changes you make to the recipe. If these numbers are important to you, I recommend calculating them yourself.

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67 Comments

  1. 5 stars
    This is one of the best cakes I’ve made. My family loves it. I’ve made in 3 times in a 10 day time period.

    1. ๐Ÿ˜I love that!!! If you’re an almond/amaretto fan, you can make it with amaretto liqueur too. I love it both ways. Thanks so much for your feedback. I’m happy you and your family like it.

      1. There are 3 cups in the cake which is normal for pound cakes and 1 in the glaze which you can half or omit.

  2. Do I pour the rum glaze onto the cake while itโ€™s still in the pan or just as soon as I take it out of the pan?

      1. Iโ€™m glad I saw this responseโ€ฆ the directions seem out of order then. Directions says to invert after 20 minutes and the next step is to pour the glaze over the cake. But you are saying to pour the glaze prior to inverting and removing from pan?

    1. Yes, in most cases you can sub whole milk, heavy cream, sour cream for buttermilk. If you use whole milk or heavy cream I’d add 1/2 teaspoon of lemon juice for the tang that buttermilk has.

  3. 5 stars
    I just made this beautiful cake but I didn’t have any rum so I used a little brandy and added some rum extract. Absolutely delicious omg..my family went crazy. Thanks for sharing!

  4. 5 stars
    This rum pound cake was a real treat! Surprisingly easy to make and it sure beats the price of those rum cakes in the tins!!

  5. 5 stars
    I made the cake and used Barcardi Rum (Gold). The cake was very tasty. I will make the cake again.

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