My recipe for homemade rum cake started with a shopping spree at tj maxx.
Tortuga gold rum cake recipe.
For over 25 years tortuga has brought the cayman islands the caribbean jamaican and bahamas the world the finest rum cakes.
In fact it s the very best of all cakes i ve ever had.
Next best to the original.
Tortuga cayman island rum cake recipe.
Butter and flour a bundt cake pan or butter a 9x13 sheet pan.
While cake bakes combine 1 4 cup sugar and 1 4 cup water in a small saucepan.
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.
Bring to a boil over medium and cook stirring occasionally until sugar is dissolved.
This recipe is an approximation of the original.
Size i paid 18 on the island so my search for the recipe began.
This recipe can be made as a full sized bundt cake or as mini bundt cakes.
Tortuga rum cake the perfect addition to any pirate party including talk like a pirate day.
I then thought i d send for some to be shipped to us and found the price to be 35 for the med.
My family requests this rummy bundt cake from me at all our get togethers.
It looked tempting so i brought it home and opened the box for a small taste of cake before dinner.
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.
And it was incredible.
Eugene witnessed my minor freak out as i raved over the moist.
The tortuga rum cake story officially began in 1987.
I knew i wanted to make rum cake some day with my tortuga rum but needed to do some research and wait for the right time.
You can not purchase tortuga rum anywhere except in the caribbean.
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.
The butter rum glaze makes it special.
Preheat your oven to 325 f.
She of course used tortuga rum as the main ingredient.
That s when carlene hamaty started baking rum cakes at home using a family recipe that had been handed down through generations.
Check out my blog for a wee bit o pirate history and baking directions in both pirate and english.
Combine butter water and sugar in a small saucepan.
Let absorb well then invert back onto platter.
For over 30 years we ve been making rum cakes with flavours like chocolate coconut key lime and many more.
Make the rum simple syrup.
Tortuga rum cakes a taste of the caribbean.
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.