Recipe: Perfect Homemade Lime Rum Cake

Homemade Lime Rum Cake. Add the rum, vanilla, lime juice, and lime zest and stir with a rubber spatula to incorporate. Pour the batter into prepared bundt pan, then smooth the top with a spatula. Let the cake cool slightly in the pan.

Ingredients of Homemade Lime Rum Cake. Stir in vanilla, lime zest, light rum and lime juice, then spoon batter into prepared pan. Add the lime juice, lime zest, the rum and vanilla extracts. You can cook Homemade Lime Rum Cake using 25 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Homemade Lime Rum Cake

1. You need of Cake.
2. Prepare 2 cups of all-purpose flour.
3. You need 1 1/2 cup of sugar.
4. Prepare 3.5 oz of instant vanilla pudding.
5. It's 2 tsp of baking powder.
6. It's 1 tsp of kosher salt.
7. Prepare 1 stick of unsalted butter softened.
8. It's 1/2 cup of canola oil.
9. Prepare 1/2 cup of milk room temp.
10. It's 4 of eggs.
11. It's 1/2 cup of rum (I used bacardi lime).
12. Prepare 2 tsp of vanilla extract.
13. You need 1/4 cup of lime juice.
14. You need of Cooking spray.
15. You need of Rum soak.
16. You need 1 stick of unsalted butter.
17. It's 1 cup of sugar.
18. Prepare 1/4 cup of water.
19. You need 1/4 tsp of kosher salt.
20. It's 1/2 cup of rum.
21. You need 1 tsp of vanilla extract.
22. You need 2 tbsp of lime juice.
23. You need of Glaze.
24. Prepare 1 1/4 cup of powdered sugar.
25. It's 3 tbsp of lime juice.

Pour the batter into a well greased and floured baking pan, cake pan, bundt pan, or tube pan. This Homemade Rum Cake is made completely from scratch, incredibly buttery, soft, light, and packed with rum flavor. This cake is also topped with an easy rum glaze that keeps it moist for days! Today's rum cake recipe is one that's been highly requested over the last few months.

Homemade Lime Rum Cake step by step

1. Preheat oven to 325°; Spray a bundt cake pan with cooking spray.
2. For the CAKE: In a bowl mix flour, sugar, pudding, baking powder, salt, butter, and canola oil until batter has a sand consistency; Add in milk and eggs until batter is smooth.
3. Pour batter into bundt pan; Smooth top.
4. Bake for 45-55 minutes; Then let cake cool slightly.
5. For RUM SOAK: Combine butter, sugar, salt, water, and rum in a sauce pan; Bring to a boil over high heat; Reduce heat to low and simmer until it is slightly thickened.
6. Transfer syrup into bowl and add vanilla and lime juice.
7. With a skewer poke holes all over the cake.
8. Pour syrup all over the cake small amounts at a time allowing the syrup to soak in between pours.
9. Cover the pan loosely with plastic wrap and let the cake sit for AT LEAST 8 HOURS; Transfer onto cake plate.
10. For LIME GLAZE: Whisk powdered sugar and lime juice together in a bowl.
11. Pour the glaze on top of the cake.
12. ENJOY!!.

This Key Lime Cake recipe is a perfect balance of sweet and tart just like a key lime pie! Each moist and tender yet dense bite of this pound cake is packed with citrus flavor then topped with a delicious cream cheese glaze. The finishing glaze will coat your lips and take your tastebuds straight to heaven! Meanwhile, place the lime juice, Golden Caster Sugar and rum in a small saucepan and heat very gently until dissolved, then remove from heat. Lightly prick the top of the baked cake with a skewer.