3. In a mixing bowl, blend together dry cake mix (just use the dry mix without adding any ingredients listed on the box), dry vanilla pudding, coconut rum, water, oil and eggs.

I knew there was no way my last-minute cake with non-Jamaican rum could ever compare to his mother’s. My regret grew into low-grade rage, which then settled into discouragement. And so, I escaped.

5 tsp fresh lime juice 3/4 to 1 cup dark rum or apple juice 1 cup all purpose flour 1 cup butter 1 cup packed brown sugar 2 eggs 2 tsp vanilla extract ...

English Christmas Fruitcake Ingredients: 14 ounces high quality, unsalted butter; 1 3/4 cups raw sugar; 6 eggs; 4 ounces of good dark rum (I use Havana Club Anejo Especial) 1 3/4 cups cake flour ...

Combine the cake ingredients by whisking together the cake mix, pudding mix, eggs, water, oil, and rum, then pour the batter over the nuts in the pan. Smooth the top and bake for 1 hour.

Following the same recipe, one can store the cake for up to 10 weeks all you need to do is douse with additional rum for every 10 weeks of storage Prep Time: 20 minutes Cooking Time: 45 minutes ...

Using everything but the candied fruit, I poured the fruit, rum and Manischewitz wine into a glass jar and closed it tight. I placed it in the corner of the counter until it was time to make the cake.

It’s the heavenly, rum-soaked fruit confection called black cake, which is arguably the most important food fixture of any Caribbean Christmas celebration.

She used fruit wine mixed with the rum to soak the fruit — 1 part rum to three parts wine — and used dried cherries in place of the dried fruit peel. She also added 1 teaspoon of rose water and 1 ...

Rosario, now 58, took over the rolling pin and has been working from her Prabhadevi home kitchen since 1999.The seasonal cake of the Rosario family has been the Christmas rum fruit cake which is a ...

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