Rum Butter Cake

April 2, 2006 | Filed Under Desserts/Sweets, Cakes, Baking

The second of April is a very special day. It is the birthday of my dear friend, Angelika. So, I wanted to make a cake for her. A nice and special cake.Ivonne mentioned a Rum Butter Cake recipe on her blog, which she highly recommend. I take all her recommendations very seriously and decided this would be the cake I’d make for Angelika. You can find the recipe here.

The preparation for the cake went fairly well. After combining the ingredients, then baking the cake, the recipe called for using a bamboo skewer to poke holes into the cake and then drenching it with a butter-rum sauce.

I made the sauce but I didn’t have a skewer of any type to poke nice deep holes in the cake. I tried to improvise by using other devices — toothpick, candle, straw and fork. It just didn’t work.

Then it was time to drench the cake. For some reason, I was nervous to pour the entire sauce on the cake; I suppose because I hadn’t poked “proper” holes in the cake. I’m not sure. So, instead of drenching the cake, I lightly poured the hot sauce on the cake. I only used a few spoonfuls of the sauce on the cake. The end result was that instead of a Rum Butter Cake, I produced a Cake-with-a-Hint-of-Rum-Butter-taste.

Oh, well! Next time I make the cake, I’ll be sure to use a skewer to poke the holes AND drench it good and proper.

In the meantime, I added an extra key ingredient not mentioned in the recipe. I made the cake with lots of love. I hope this makes up for the insufficient taste of rum butter sauce in the cake.