Best Rum Raisin Cake Recipes

APPLESAUCE RUM-RAISIN CAKE

Steps:

• Place all the raisins in a small bowl with the rum and let sit overnight or at least 4 hours.
• Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Grease and flour a 9x13-inch baking pan.
• In a large bowl, beat butter and sugar with an electric mixer until light and fluffy. Beat in the eggs one at a time; mix in applesauce.
• In another bowl, stir together the flours, cornstarch, baking soda, cinnamon, nutmeg, salt, and cocoa. Gradually add flour into the batter, mixing until fully incorporated. Stir in the raisins, along with any rum that was not absorbed, and the walnuts. Turn batter into the prepared pan.
• Bake in preheated oven until a tester inserted in the middle of the cake comes out clean, about 25 minutes. Cool on wire rack.

RUM-RAISIN POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F. Butter and flour 12-cup Bundt pan. Toss raisins with 2 tablespoons flour in small bowl. Combine remaining flour, baking powder and salt in medium bowl. Using electric mixer, beat butter in large bowl until light. Add 1 2/3 cups sugar and beat until fluffy. Add eggs 2 at a time, beating after each addition until well blended. Beat in 6 tablespoons rum and vanilla. Mix in flour mixture. Fold in raisin mixture. Spoon batter into prepared pan.
• Bake cake until top is golden and tester inserted near center comes out clean, about 1 hour. Cool in pan on rack 10 minutes. Turn out cake onto rack and cool completely.
• Stir powdered sugar and 1 tablespoon rum in bowl until smooth. Mix in cream. Spoon over cake. Let stand until glaze is set, about 30 minutes.

COCONUT RUM-RAISIN BUNDT CAKE WITH RUM-CARAMEL GLAZE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Butter a 12-cup Bundt pan; dust with flour, tapping out excess. Soak raisins in 1/2 cup rum.
• Whisk together flour, salt, and baking powder; set aside. Put butter and brown sugar in the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment; cream on medium speed until smooth. Mix in eggs, one at a time. Add vanilla. On low speed, mix in flour mixture in three additions, alternating with two additions of 6 tablespoons cream each (12 total). Mix in raisin mixture and coconut. Transfer batter to prepared pan; smooth top.
• Bake, rotating about halfway through, until a cake tester comes out clean, about 1 hour 55 minutes. Let cool in pan on a wire rack 20 minutes. Run a thin knife around sides of cake; unmold. Let cool.
• Heat granulated sugar and 1/4 cup water in a small saucepan over medium heat, gently stirring occasionally, until sugar is dissolved and syrup is clear. Cook, without stirring, until syrup comes to a boil, washing down sides of pan with a wet pastry brush to prevent crystals from forming. Let boil, gently swirling, until medium amber. Remove from heat. Carefully pour in remaining 1/4 cup rum and 2 tablespoons cream. Let cool, stirring, until thickened. Drizzle over cake.

RUM AND RAISIN CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease one 9 or 10 inch tube pan.
• Boil water add rum and raisins. Melt butter and beat egg. Add to the raisin mixture.
• Sift flour, baking soda, cocoa, and sugar together. Stir into raisin mixture. Add chopped pecans and stir until just combined. If batter is too thick add a little more water. Pour batter into prepared pan.
• Bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for 40 to 50 minutes. Let cake cool in the pan for 10 minutes then turn out onto a serving dish. Serve cake hot with custard or top cooled cake with whipped cream.

RUM RAISIN POUND CAKE WITH COCONUT GLAZE

Steps:

• Combine the raisins and rum in a small bowl and soak for several hours or overnight.
• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Butter and flour a 12-cup Bundt pan or ring pan.
• Combine the flour, baking powder and salt in a medium bowl. Set aside.
• Beat the butter in the bowl of an electric mixer until light and fluffy. Gradually beat in the sugar. Beat until fluffy, 2 to 3 minutes.
• Beat in the eggs 2 at a time, beating well after each addition. Add the vanilla and beat on low to combine. With a rubber spatula, gently fold in the flour mixture. Fold in the raisins with their soaking liquid.
• Pour the batter into the prepared pan. Bake until the top is golden and a cake tester or toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean, about 1 hour.
• While the cake is baking, make the glaze: Whisk the confectioners' sugar and coconut milk together in a small bowl until there are no lumps; add more coconut milk or sugar to reach the consistency of school glue.
• Cool the cake in the pan on a wire rack for 5 minutes. Remove the cake from the pan and place on the rack. While the cake is still warm, drizzle the coconut glaze over the top and sprinkle with the shredded coconut.

RUM-RAISIN APPLE CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F. Butter and flour 13x9x2-inch metal baking pan. Boil rum in heavy small saucepan until reduced to 1/4 cup. Set aside.
• Sift next 5 ingredients into medium bowl. Using electric mixer, beat rum, sugar, eggs, oil, and vanilla in large bowl until slightly thickened, about 5 minutes. Add flour mixture; beat just until blended. Stir in apples, walnuts, and raisins. Transfer batter to prepared pan.
• Bake cake until tester inserted into center comes out clean, about 40 minutes. Cool cake in pan on rack. Cut into squares and serve.

PUMPKIN RAISIN RUM BUNDT CAKE WITH BUTTER RUM GLAZE

Steps:

• Set oven to 350 degrees.
• Set oven rack to second-lowest position.
• Generously grease a Bundt pan.
• In a bowl sift together flour, baking powder, baking soda, pie spice and orange zest; set aside.
• In a large bowl, beat eggs until light and fluffy (about 5 minutes).
• Beat in sugar until well blended.
• Beat in pumpkin and melted butter until combined.
• In a small cup or bowl combine the rum and milk; add alternately with the flour mixture into the pumpkin mixture until combined.
• Stir in raisins.
• Transfer the batter to prepared Bundt pan.
• Bake for about 55-60 minutes, or until cake tests done.
• Cool completely before glazing.
• To make glaze: Combine all the ingredients in a small heavy-bottomed saucepan; bring to a boil.
• Boil the mixture for about 3 minutes, stirring/whisking constantly.
• Remove from heat and cool slightly.
• Drizzle over cooled cake.

RUM-RAISIN CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Use 1 tablespoon butter to grease an 8-inch tube pan. Place remaining butter in a small saucepan and cook on medium until melted and starting to turn nut-brown. Remove from heat, let sit a few minutes, then pour into a glass measuring cup, leaving any dark sediment in bottom of pan. Set butter aside. Place raisins in a bowl and pour 2/3 cup rum over raisins. Sift flour, cinnamon, baking powder and salt into another bowl.
• Beat eggs until light. Beat in sugar and continue beating, about 5 minutes, until very light and creamy. Drain raisins, reserving rum. Add flour mixture to egg mixture alternately with drained rum. Fold in brown butter, leaving any sediment in bottom of cup. Fold in raisins. Spread in pan and bake 40 minutes until lightly browned and tester comes out clean. Spoon remaining 3 tablespoons rum over cake. Cool. Remove from pan. Pile whipped cream in center and serve.

PUMPKIN AND RUM RAISIN CAKE

Steps:

• Turn oven to 350°F Soak raisins in rum, or apple juice while preparing rest of batter. Grease a Bundt cake pan. Set aside. Using a mixer, beat the eggs, sugar and oil until frothy. Blend in pumpkin purée until smooth. Set aside.
• In a bowl, sift together the flour, baking powder, spices and salt. Stir the dry ingredients into the pumpkin mixture until just combined. Strain the soaked raisins, reserving the liquid. Mix the raisins and pecans into the cake batter.
• Spread the batter into the prepared pan. Bake in the center of oven until a skewer inserted in the center of the cake comes out clean, about 55 minutes.
• Allow the cake to cool on a wire rack for 10 minutes, then gently remove it from the pan and cool to room temperature.
• Meanwhile in a small mixing bowl, combine 3 tablespoons reserved raisin-soaking liquid and vanilla; add icing sugar and blend into a smooth glaze. If needed smooth glaze with more raisin liquid, adding 1/4 teaspoons at a time. Pour or brush the glaze over the cake two or three times,allowing each layer to set before adding the next.

RUM RAISIN POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°; butter an 8- or 9-inch flat-bottomed tube pan; dust with all-purpose flour, invert over the kitchen sink, and tap to remove excess.
• To soften the raisins--place in a steam basket in a medium saucepan and steam for 1 minute over boiling water (do not submerge the raisins or they will absorb too much water).
• Spread them out over several layers of paper towels and dry thoroughly.
• Using a triple sifter, sift together the flour, baking powder, salt, and cinnamon; set aside.
• Cut the butter into 1-inch pieces and place it along with the rinds in the bowl of an electric stand mixer fitted with paddle attachment.
• Soften on low speed.
• Increase speed to med-high and cream until smooth and light in color, about 1 1/2 to 2 minutes.
• Add in sugar, 1 tablespoon at a time, taking 6-8 minutes to blend it in well; scrape the sides of the bowl occasionally.
• Add in eggs, 1 at a time at 1-minute intervals, scraping the sides of the bowl again.
• Blend in the vanilla.
• Decrease mixer speed to low; add the dry ingredients in three additions alternately with the rum in two additions, mixing until incorporated after each addition; mix the batter for 15 seconds longer.
• Remove bowl from mixer and fold in raisins with a rubber spatula.
• Spoon batter into prepared pan; smooth the surface with the back of a tablespoon.
• Center the pan on the rack and bake for 45-50 minutes, or until the cake is golden brown on top and begins to come away from the sides of the pan; or toothpick inserted into the center comes out dry.
• Remove cake from oven; set on a cake rack for 10-15 minutes; invert cake onto a rack and remove the pan.
• Turn cake top side up onto a second cake rack to cool at room temperature.
• Cut a double thickness of cheesecloth to measure approximately 18 x 24 inches.
• Saturate in 1/4 cup dark Jamaican rum; open the rum soaked cheesecloth and stretch flat on an 18-inch square of heavy-duty foil; arrange cake in the center of the cheesecloth.
• Wrap the cloth over the cake by lifting the ends and bringing them to the center.
• Then wrap tightly in foil; place the cake in a plastic bag and seal; let stand at room temperature overnight.
• The following day, remove the foil and unwrap the cake; remoisten the cheesecloth with an additional 1/4 cup rum; rewrap the cake in the cheesecloth and foil and return to the plastic bag to age for 2-3 days or up to 10 days.
• It is not necessary to remoisten the cheesecloth after the second day.
• Wrap leftover cake in the cheesecloth; store in plastic wrap or foil at room temperature for up to 10 days.

APPLE RUM RAISIN CAKE

Steps:

• In a bowl cream the butter, then beat in the sugars until light and fluffy.
• Beat in the eggs.
• Sift together the flour, baking powder, salt, soda, cinnamon and nutmeg.
• Add dry ingredients alternately with the undiluted evaporated milk and rum to the creamed mixture, Mix in the chopped apples, raisins and nuts.
• Pour into a greased 9x12x2 inch baking pan.
• Bake at 350 for 40 minutes or until cake springs back when done.

APPLE RUM RAISIN CAKE (GLUTEN-FREE, LOW-GI)

Steps:

• In a small sauce pan, place apple pieces, lemon juice, raisins, sugar, cinnamon, and water and cook under medium heat for about 10 minutes until the apples become soft.
• Add rum and mix. Turn off heat and set it aside.
• Preheat oven to 350ºF/180ºC degrees and spray the cake pan with oil.
• In a bowl, combine almond meal, coconut flour, sugar, and baking powder.
• Add beaten eggs, melted butter, apple sauce, and almond extract and mix.
• Add the apple and raisin mixture and walnut pieces (if using) and mix.
• Bake for about 40 minutes.
• When the cake is no longer hot, remove from the pan and cool on a wire rack. Dust with powdered sugar (optional).
• Infuse love, slice and serve.

HOLIDAY RUM & RAISIN CAKE

Steps:

• Combine raisins and rum; cover and stand until rum is absorbed.
• Stir together: flour, baking powder, salt. Blend butter, sugar, eggs, and vanilla in a large bowl on low speed.
• Beat on high speed for 5 minutes, scraping down sides often.
• Add dry ingredients to creamed mixture alternatly with cream.
• Stir in raisins and turn into baking pans. Preheat oven to 350 degrees and bake: 12 cup bundt pan - 70 to 80 minutes; or 2-6 cup bundt pan - 40 to 45 minutes.
• This cake gets very brown on top. Cool 10 minutes, then remove from pans.
• Brush with Rum & Butter Glaze.
• Allow cake to absorb and repeat until glaze is used up.
• GLAZE: Melt ½ cup butter in saucepan; add 1 cup sugar and ¼ cup water.
• Boil for 5 minutes, stirring constantly. Remove from heat and stir in ½ cup rum. Cool slightly.

RUM CAKE WITH RUM RAISIN ICE CREAM AND ISLAND FRUIT

Steps:

• For cake:
• Preheat oven to 350°F. Butter 9-inch-diameter springform pan with 3-inch-high sides. Whisk flour and baking powder in medium bowl. Beat butter, sugar, and salt in large bowl until light and fluffy, about 4 minutes. Add eggs 1 at a time, beating well after each addition. Mix 1 cup water and vanilla extract in measuring cup. Fold flour mixture into butter mixture in 3 additions alternately with water mixture in 2 additions. Transfer batter to prepared springform pan.
• Bake cake until tester inserted into center comes out clean, about 1 hour 10 minutes. Cool completely in pan on rack. (Can be made 1 day ahead. Store airtight at room temperature.)
• For sauce:
• Combine first 7 ingredients in heavy medium saucepan. Stir over medium heat until sugar dissolves, about 3 minutes. Increase heat to medium-high. Boil without stirring until sauce is reduced to 1 1/2 cups, about 5 minutes. Cool slightly. (Can be prepared 1 day ahead. Let stand at room temperature. Rewarm slightly before continuing.)
• Remove sides from cake pan. Slice cake. Place 1 wedge on each plate. Place scoop of ice cream alongside. Spoon chopped tropical fruit alongside. Drizzle cake with sauce. Sprinkle with chopped pecans and serve.

RUM RAISIN CAKE

Steps:

• Mash bananas to make 1 cup.
• Combine with milk.
• Cream sugar and butter light and fluffy. Beat in eggs until blended.
• Combine flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt and allspice.
• Beat 1/3 flour mixture into egg mixture until blended.
• Beat 1/2 banana mixture until blended. Repeat ending with flour mixture.
• Beat in rum until well blended, stir in raisins.
• Pour into 2 well greased or parchment paper covered loaf cake pans.
• Bake in 350 degree oven for 50 minute Invert on wire rack to cool.
• For a few days I brush rum on top to give it extra flavor.

RUM N RAISIN ICE CREAM CAKE

Steps:

• Combine fruits, rind and mixed spice with rum and let stand overnight.
• Line 19cm square cake tin with plastic wrap and freeze until required.
• Combine softened ice cream with fruit mixture, chocolate and nuts.
• Spoon into prepared pan, cover and freeze overnight.
• Turn or lift onto serving platter. Decorate with chocolate curls and dust with cocoa powder.

CHOCOLATE, RUM AND RAISIN CAKE (VEGAN!)

Steps:

• Soak the raisins in the rum for 1 hour.
• Gently heat the margarine, sugar and molasses until melted.
• Remove from heat, and stir in the raisins and any remaining rum.
• Gradually add the flour, cocoa powder and cinnamon, and then the soy milk.
• Mix well, then spoon into a greased 7 inch pan.
• Level the top, and bake at 350°F for about 25 minutes; until risen and firm in the centre.
• Remove from the pan and cool on a wire rack.
• If desired, cover with melted chocolate and shredded coconut, and chill in the fridge before serving.

HOLIDAY RUM & RAISIN CAKE

Steps:

• 1. Combine raisins and rum, cover and stand until rum is absorbed. 2. Stir together flour, baking powder, salt. Blend butter, sugar, eggs and vanilla on low speed in a large bowl. 3. Beat on high speed for 5 minutes, scraping sides often. 4. Add dry ingredients to creamed mixture alternately with cream. 5. Stir in raisins and pour into baking pans. Preheat oven to 350 degrees and bake. 12 cup bunt pan 70-80 minutes, 2-6 cup bunt 40-45 minutes 6. This cake gets very brown on top. Cool 10 minutes then remove from pan. 7. Brush with rum and butter glaze. 8. Allow cake to absorb and repeat until glaze is used up. 9. Glaze: melt 1/2 cup butter, add 1/2 cup sugar, 1/4 cup water. 10. Boil 5 minutes, stirring constantly. Remove from heat and add 1/2 cup rum. Cool slightly.