Coffee Rum Cake

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

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
Vegetarian
Drinks
Caribbean

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