Reviews & Comments

ellie59 you are a life savor i had to make rum cake for my daughters class without rum but it is impossible to fund a recipe with little or no rum. thanks it came out great!

SUPER easy to make! Smells great, looks great, tastes great!

I first found this recipe on a box of BC Butter Pecan cake mix and thought it would be good for a pot-luck. This was my first bundt cake. I got rave reviews. I used the extract instead of real rum as it was a Church function. I neglected to save the recipe from the box so I had to search several stores to find another box with the recipe. (Glad I discovered BC website, now)I have made this many times since and always great response. I have also made modifications to the flavors and all were great. This is an easy recipe to change to your tastes as well as an awesome speciality recipe as is.

A question for the experienced bakers here, perhaps one of you has run into this problem? If one doesn't have the "butter" yellow cake mix available can butter flavourd extract be added to make up for it? If so, how much extract to compensate? This recipe sounds wonderful, I can purchase little bottles of rum (apprx 1/4 cup per bottle) for this as I don't otherwise like dark rum. The reviews here are very encouraging and I will definitely be making this soon. I bought my bundt pan yesterday and last night went on a "Bundt Hunt". The first place I thought to come was the Betty Crocker website. There are just three other recipe sources besides Betty Crocker I can think of that can accommodate a cook/baker in a small town with one grocery store and limited selection. Kudos to the pros at Betty Crocker who develop these recipes with REAL cooks in mind!!

I am an avid cake baker and have tried hundreds of recipes from mixes and from scratch, and let me tell you this is the easiest way to make a fantastic cake. The butter rum variation is WONDERFUL, but I have also substituted with chocolate, pistachio, and many other flavors of cake mix and pudding combination. Just take out the rum, substitute for water (and leave the frosting alone) and you can turn this cake into any flavor.