This dense chocolate cake is spiced and flavored like a mug of Hot Buttered Rum, then doused in a butter rum glaze - it's the ultimate boozy rum bundt cake!
Course Dessert
Cuisine American
Keyword rum bundt cake
Prep Time 1 hourhour
Cook Time 50 minutesminutes
Total Time 1 hourhour50 minutesminutes
Servings 12
Calories 665kcal
Author Erica
Ingredients
Cake
3cupsall-purpose floursifted
1teaspoonbaking powder
1teaspoonbaking soda
½teaspoonsalt
1 ½cupsunsalted butterroom temperature
1 ½cupsbuttermilkroom temperature
1cupstrong brewed coffee
½cuprum
1 ½cupsplus 3 Tablespoons cocoa powderdivided
1teaspooncinnamon
½teaspoonnutmeg
¼teaspoonground cloves
1 ¾cupsbrown sugar
½cupgranulated sugar
3eggsroom temperature
2teaspoonsvanilla extract
Buttered Rum Glaze
½cupbrown sugar
½cupheavy cream
½cuprum
2tablespoonsunsalted butter
Instructions
Make the Cake
Preheat oven to 325 degrees F. Spray a 15-cup bundt cake pan with baking spray, then dust with 3 Tablespoons cocoa powder; set aside
Whisk flour, baking soda and powder, and salt together in a medium bowl; set aside.
In a large saucepan set over medium heat, combine butter, buttermilk, coffee, rum, cocoa powder, and spices and stir. Heat until butter melts and all ingredients come together, then whisk in sugars, stirring until dissolved. Cool mixture for 5 minutes, then transfer to a large mixing bowl.
In a small bowl, whisk together eggs and vanilla extract, and add to cooled chocolate rum mixture, stirring until combined.
Add flour mixture and stir until just combined - batter will be rather thin but slightly lumpy/bubbly.
Pour batter into prepared bundt pan. Bake for 50-60 minutes, or until a skewer inserted to the bottom comes out clean. Remove from oven and allow to cool for 20-30 minutes while you prepare the glaze.
Buttered Rum Glaze
In a small saucepan, dissolve brown sugar into cream over medium-low heat. When combined, add rum and set heat to low. Allow to simmer until liquid is reduced and thickens. Add butter and stir to melt, then remove from heat.
Using a skewer, poke multiple holes across the bottom of the cake. Spoon or brush buttered rum glaze on the cake, and allow to soak 5-10 minutes, then repeat with more glaze two more times. Let cake soak & cool 20-30 minutes.
When cake is cooled, turn it out on to a cake plate. Brush top and sides of cake with remaining glaze, making multiple passes over it until it's all used up.
Top with whipped cream or ice cream if desired, and serve with Buttered Rum Cocktails