Cake Mix Rum Cake

glazed rum cake on a white plate surrounded by crushed pecans

Delicious, rum-soaked cake drizzled with a buttery rum glaze and topped with tasty pecans. Amazing flavor and so easy to make!

Ingredients

For the Cake:

For the Icing:

Instructions

For the Cake:

  1. Preheat oven to 325ºF.
  2. Prepare a bundt pan by greasing and flouring it.
  3. Add chopped pecans to the bottom of the bundt pan.
  4. In a large mixing bowl, add cake mix, eggs, Captain Morgan, water, butter, and vanilla pudding mix. Beat well until batter is uniform.
  5. Pour batter into bundt pan over pecans.
  6. Bake for 1 hour or until a toothpick comes out clean. Cool and then flip onto a serving plate.
  7. Gently poke holes into the top and side of the cake with a toothpick.

For the Icing:

  1. In a medium microwave-safe bowl, melt butter. 
  2. Add Captain Morgan and whisk together.
  3. Add vanilla, salt, and powdered sugar.  Whisk until icing is uniform.
  4. Drizzle icing over cake just before serving.