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10
Medium
Published 2007
Visions of umbrella drinks and Caribbean pirates may dance through your head when you take your first bite of this rich, pecan-encrusted cake. It is really a cross between a rum cake and a pound cake, and marries the best of both traditions in one moist, banana-flecked, rum-drenched dream. Banana cake in all its many incarnations is pretty hard to resist, but I think this one is sublime. It is dense, without being heavy, and the spicy molasses kick from the dark rum doesn’t overwhelm the de