The Best Rum Cake Recipe Ever - Life of Stacy (2024)

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Which rum is best for cake? ›

It's one of the easiest and most delicious. Which rum is best for cake? You can use light or dark rum for this recipe. Dark rum tends to be more flavorful than milder light rum, and will add more complexity to the cake.

Because of the rum in the cake, it can act as a preservative and can be stored in an air-tight container at room temperature, not in direct light. As a result of proper care and in excellent conditions, a rum cake can last up to 10 days. If you freeze it and store it correctly, the cake can last a couple of months.

A rum cake or black cake is a type of dessert cake which contains rum. In most of the Caribbean, rum cakes are a traditional holiday season dessert, descended from the holiday puddings (such as figgy pudding).

Yes, our cakes have a shelf life of 6 months in their vacuum-sealed bags which makes them perfect for transport! How long does the cake last? They're good to the last bite! 😉 But, actually for 6 months in their vacuum-sealed bags at ambient room temperature.

Your cake will stay fresh for seven days without refrigeration. I recommend keeping it in an airtight container to keep it moist. It will last even longer if you keep it in the fridge or freeze it. Just let it come to room temperature before eating for the best flavor.

A rum baba or baba au rhum is a small yeast cake saturated in syrup made with hard liquor, usually rum, and sometimes filled with whipped cream or pastry cream.

An average rum cake has around 1/2 cup rum to bake the cake and eating two to three pieces of dry rum cake is too less to get you drunk. However, if you soak the cake in rum after baking and serve it after refrigeration, then eating too much cake can get you a little intoxicated.

“You'll want to store a cake in the fridge with plastic wrap against the cut part (of the cake) to prevent the cake from drying out,” says Edwards, adding that store-bought cakes may last longer in the fridge, but homemade cakes should typically be consumed in five to seven days.

They contain less than half of 1% alcohol so appropriate for all ages and cultures.

Yes, they can. Desserts which contain alcohol usually contain such small amounts of it that it doesn't have any influence.

Will rum cake show up on a drug test? ›

Flavoring extracts, such as vanilla or almond extract, and liquid herbal extracts could result in a positive drug test for alcohol. Foods cooked with wine should be avoided, such as cherries jubilee, baked Alaska, rum cake, burgundy chicken, and flambé dishes.

The bright, tropical flavors of fresh fruit are a brilliant match for a slice of rum cake. Serve skewers of fresh pineapple or mango alongside your drink. Or top the rum cake with a dollop of whipped cream and a few slices of pineapple or strawberry.

Storing the Jamaican Black Cake

Wrap your cake in a layer of greaseproof paper and a layer of tin foil to prevent air getting in. Store the wrapped cake in an airtight container. The cake should keep for (at least) a month or even up to a year with this amount of booze going on in an air tight container.

Burning off alcohol at the beginning and baking the cake helps reduce a percentage of alcohol. That said, the flavor will be left behind, so that's something to consider if you plan to serve it to children or to someone abstaining from alcohol. Be careful when igniting the rum.

To Make Ahead: This homemade rum cake can be made and kept in the refrigerator for up to 5 days. You can reheat a slice in the microwave for 15 seconds, or enjoy cold. To Freeze: Bake the cake but do not make the glaze sauce.

Baking with booze—such as bourbon, rum, port and vodka—can add additional flavor, texture and even change the consistency of many baked goods.

Some cake, notably Christmas style fruitcakes, can be infused with rum, or brandy over a long period. This is done by pouring a little over the top and then wrapping the cake so that the liquor is absorbed. This can be repeated many times for several months … The reason why people do this is for the final flavor …

As long as you like that and feel it will go well with the rest of the recipe, it is fine. It isn't going to make any substantial chemical difference in a way that will affect the outcome, so base your decision completely on flavor and color.

However, when you add rum to the cake batter in most cases due to the process of baking the percentage of alcohol gets diluted and evaporates, this reduces its effect. The presence of rum remains as a flavour in the baked cake and this type of rum cake doesn't contain enough rum to get you intoxicated.