William Lander, Daniel Morgenthau, Shaun Searley

Rum Cake

Name: Rum Cake
Yield: Serves 12
Ingredients: 75 g plain flour; 65 ml dark rum; 235 g butter, at room temperature, plus extra for the tin; 280 g granulated sugar, plus extra for the tin; 4 free-range organic eggs; 25 g caster sugar; 280 g ground almonds; 2 tbsp dark rum; 1 tbsp sherry vinegar; 360 g icing sugar; 2 tbsp water

Preparation info

Serves
12

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

The Quality Chop House

By William Lander , Shaun Searley and Daniel Morgenthau

Published 2019

About

Like our flapjack, this is not as sugary as you might imagine. This came about from the need for something a bit ‘mellow’ on the sweet counter. Great for when you need a sugar hit but not too much – a sugar nudge, if you will.

Ingredients

235 g butter, at room temperature, plus extra for the tin
280 g granulated sugar, plus extra for the tin

Cake
Vegetarian

Method

Preheat the oven to 160°C. Line a 20cm round springform cake tin with baking parchment and brush with a little butter and sugar.

In a large bowl, cream the rest of the butter and sugar together until they are light and fluffy and almost white in colour. Add one of the eggs and