Butter Rum Cake

“As a mother I understand the love my mother mixed into each Butter Rum Cake she prepared the night before gift exchange at school. Now, my son, daughter and I mix cake after cake for their teachers. My wish is that my children will make Butter Rum Cake for their children’s teachers.”

Butter Rum Cake

submitted by reader Judy Prine of Hattiesburg, MS

Ingredients
Cake:
2 sticks butter
1 cup vegetable oil
5 eggs
3 cups sugar
3 cups cake flour
1 cup milk
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspooon rum flavoring
1 teaspooon butter flavoring
1 teaspooon almond flavoring

Glaze:
1/2 cup water
1 cup sugar
1 teaspoon rum flavoring
1 teaspoon butter flavoring
1 teaspoon almond flavoring
1 teaspoon coconut flavoring
Instructions
1. Preheat oven to 350F. Grease a Bundt pan.
2. To prepare the cake, melt butter and oil together. Pour into mixing bowl. With an electric mixer, beat in eggs, one at a time. Add sugar, cake flour, milk, baking powder and flavorings; blend well. Pour mixture into pan. Bake 1 1/2 hours or until cake pulls away from sides of pan.
3. To prepare the glaze, combine water, sugar and flavorings in a saucepan. Heat until sugar melts; do not boil. Pour over cake while it is still hot.

Serves 16.

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