Coffee Rum Cake

Name: Coffee Rum Cake
Yield: Serves 8
Cuisine: Americas
Ingredients: pinch of salt; 175 g (6 oz) self-raising flour, sifted; pecans, to decorate; 3 eggs, lightly beaten; 5 tbsp caster sugar; 80 ml (2½ fl oz) rum; 175 g (6 oz) soft light brown sugar; 425 ml (¾ pint) very strong hot coffee; 300 ml (½ pint) whipping cream; 175 g (6 oz) butter, softened, plus extra for the tin

Preparation info

Serves
8

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Food for Friends

By Levi Roots

Published 2010

About

Wow - this is definitely one for coffee, and rum-lovers. Make the coffee as strong as you can and don’t be scared by the amount of liquid you are pouring into the cake. It soaks it up to make the most fabulocious boozy cake.

Ingredients

175 g (6 oz) butter, softened, plus extra for the tin
175 g (6

Americas
Dessert
Caribbean
Vegetarian
Drinks

Method

Preheat the oven to 190°C/375°F/gas mark 5.
Beat the butter and brown sugar together, using an electric mixer or by hand, until pale and fluffy. Add the eggs a little at a time, beating well after each addition, then fold in the flour and salt. Put in