Tortuga Gold Rum Cake Recipe

She of course used tortuga rum as the main ingredient.

Tortuga gold rum cake recipe.

This recipe can be made as a full sized bundt cake or as mini bundt cakes. 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. 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. Tortuga rum cake the perfect addition to any pirate party including talk like a pirate day.

My recipe for homemade rum cake started with a shopping spree at tj maxx. 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. Make the rum simple syrup. In fact it s the very best of all cakes i ve ever had.

Next best to the original. 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. I then thought i d send for some to be shipped to us and found the price to be 35 for the med. Butter and flour a bundt cake pan or butter a 9x13 sheet pan.

Let absorb well then invert back onto platter. My family requests this rummy bundt cake from me at all our get togethers. You can not purchase tortuga rum anywhere except in the caribbean. 1 2 cup butter for the third time do not use margarine 1 4 cup water 1 cup sugar 1 2 cup tortuga gold rum 1.

This is the glaze you will drizzle on the cake while it is still in the bundt pan. This recipe is an approximation of the original. It looked tempting so i brought it home and opened the box for a small taste of cake before dinner. Preheat your oven to 325 f.

The tortuga rum cake story officially began in 1987. While cake bakes combine 1 4 cup sugar and 1 4 cup water in a small saucepan. Eugene witnessed my minor freak out as i raved over the moist. Bring to a boil over medium and cook stirring occasionally until sugar is dissolved.

Check out my blog for a wee bit o pirate history and baking directions in both pirate and english. Size i paid 18 on the island so my search for the recipe began. Tortuga rum cakes a taste of the caribbean. Combine butter water and sugar in a small saucepan.

For over 30 years we ve been making rum cakes with flavours like chocolate coconut key lime and many more. That s when carlene hamaty started baking rum cakes at home using a family recipe that had been handed down through generations. And it was incredible. On our visit to the caribbean we brought home the best rum cake i ve ever had.

For over 25 years tortuga has brought the cayman islands the caribbean jamaican and bahamas the world the finest rum cakes.