Dry Tortuga Rum Cake Recipe

This recipe is an approximation of the original.

Dry tortuga rum cake recipe. When ready to serve turn the cake out onto a serving dish. Tortuga rum cake the perfect addition to any pirate party including talk like a pirate day. Remove from the heat and add the rum. It is said to be difficult to find but can be purchased in better liquor stores often ordered by the store.

The butter rum glaze makes it special. On my trip to the virgin islands i had the best moist delicious tortuga rum cake. Butter and flour a bundt cake pan or butter a 9x13 sheet pan. Check out my blog for a wee bit o pirate history and baking directions in both pirate and english.

Bring to a boil over medium and cook stirring occasionally until sugar is dissolved. While cake bakes combine 1 4 cup sugar and 1 4 cup water in a small saucepan. Tortuga cayman island rum cake recipe. Feed the cake with the hot rum syrup and let soak in.

An easy way to glaze your cake is to pour half of the glaze into bundt pan reinsert cake then pour the rest of glaze over the bottom of the cake. It requires a few steps but tastes amazing. For over 30 years we ve been making rum cakes with flavours like chocolate coconut key lime and many more. Make the rum simple syrup.

I found this recipe and decided to try it for ourselves. Let absorb well then invert back onto platter. Wash and dry the bundt tin then place back over the cool cake and turn cake back over. She of course used tortuga rum as the main ingredient.

On low speed combine ingredients until the mix is the consistency of fine gravel and all particles are about the same size. This recipe is a clone of a well known cake sold in the cayman islands by the makers of the rum used in this recipe tortuga. Tortuga rum cakes a taste of the caribbean. My family requests this rummy bundt cake from me at all our get togethers.

Preheat your oven to 325 f. Preheat oven to 325 degrees. This recipe can be made as a full sized bundt cake or as mini bundt cakes. For over 25 years tortuga has brought the cayman islands the caribbean jamaican and bahamas the world the finest rum cakes.

Place the flour sugar baking powder salt cut butter and vegetable oil into the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with a paddle attachment or into a large mixing bowl to use a hand mixer. In a large mixing bowl combine basic cake mix ingredients. To begin mix up a batch of cake flour salt baking powder pudding sugar vegetable oil and butter. The tortuga rum cake story officially began in 1987.