Rum Raisin Cake
Ingredients
| 3/4 cup butter softened | ||
| 1 cup granulated sugar | ||
| 1/2 cup firmly packed dark brown sugar | ||
| 3 eggs | ||
| 2 and 1/2 cups sifted all purpose flour | ||
| 1 tsp salt | ||
| 1 tsp baking soda | ||
| 1 cup sour milk (to make sour milk place 2 tbs of lemon juice in 1 cup of milk. Do not stir. let stand for 10 minutes.) | ||
| 1 cup dark or golden raisins (or 1/2 cup of each) | ||
| grated rind of 1 orange | ||
| grated rind of 1 lemon | ||
| 1 cup chopped walnuts | ||
| 3 tbs orange juice | ||
| 3 tbs lemon juice | ||
| 1/4 cup dark rum |
This is a rich moist cake. If you like rum raisin ice cream this cake is for you. Makes 1 cake, serves 12.
- Cream butter, 1/2 cup granulated sugar, and brown sugar together until fluffy, and then beat eggs in one at a time.
- Combine flour, salt and baking soda and add alternately with sour milk.
- Stir in raisins, orange rind, lemon rind, and walnuts and mix well.
- Pour batter into a greased 9 or 10 inch bundt pan.
- Bake in a pre heated 350 degree oven about 1 hour.
- Remove from oven and cool in pan for 15 or 20 minutes.
- Turn cake out onto a rimmed serving plate.
- Combine orange juice, lemon juice, rum and 1/2 cup granulated sugar and mix thoroughly.
- Using a skewer, pole some holes in the top of the cake.
- Slowly spoon rum mixture over the cake. Keep spooning up excess mixture from plate onto cake until all is absorbed.
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