This decadent Coconut Rum Cake has incredible taste from flaked coconut, coconut extract, and a wealthy, buttery coconut rum glaze. No person would guess that this recipe begins with a field of cake combine!
Why we Love It
- Nice social gathering cake
- The buttery rum glaze that’s poured over the freshly baked cake- yum!
- Straightforward doctored cake combine recipe
- Coconut desserts are at all times a favourite
- One other for our assortment of festive “boozy desserts“!
Elements
Here is a fast take a look at our components! See the underside of this submit for the complete recipe.
- White cake mix- we used Duncan Hines Completely Moist
- Small field Immediate Coconut Cream Pudding Combine (you possibly can substitute vanilla pudding when you can’t discover coconut).
- All Goal Flour
- Sugar
- Salt
- Giant Eggs
- Unsalted Butter, Melted
- Coconut Rum- Any model is okay. You may as well substitute white or darkish rum.
- Bitter Cream (full fats)- For richness and a pleasant texture.
- Milk
- Coconut Extract
- Flaked, Sweetened Coconut (Sweetened coconut is softer than unsweetened)
Tips on how to Make Straightforward Coconut Rum Cake
This cake comes collectively very quickly! You’ll find the full, detailed recipe on the backside of this submit.
- Preheat the oven to 325 levels F and grease & flour a bundt pan.
- After combining the dry components, add all different components (apart from the flaked coconut).
- Combine with an electrical mixer to mix, then improve to medium velocity for 2 minutes. Fold in coconut.
- Sprinkle â…“ cup coconut into the underside of the greased and floured bundt pan. Scoop within the cake batter and bake. For the final quarter-hour of baking, put together the butter rum glaze.
- Pour the glaze over the freshly baked cake whereas nonetheless within the pan.
- Enable the cake to sit down and soak up the glaze for quarter-hour earlier than flipping out onto a cake plate. It’s best to put the cake plate on prime of the bundt pan and flip it over all as one. Then raise off the pan to disclose the cake.
Here is our fairly cake! You may see the focus of the glaze across the edges of the sliced cake- it’s heavenly! We sprinkled a bit extra flaked coconut on prime for adornment.
Extra Boozy Muffins
We have now many extra rum desserts and cocktail-inspired desserts to share with you! A few of our favorites are our Banana Rum Cake, Limoncello Bundt Cake, and Pina Colada Cake.
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Preheat oven to 325 levels F
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Grease and flour a ten or 12 cup bundt pan. Sprinkle â…“ cup flaked coconut into the underside of the pan (non-obligatory).
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Sift the cake combine into your mixing bowl. Add the flour, coconut cream pudding combine, salt, and sugar. Whisk to mix.
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Subsequent, add every part apart from the flaked coconut– the melted butter, bitter cream, 4 eggs, coconut rum, milk, and coconut extract
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Combine at low velocity (paddle attachment if utilizing a stand mixer) for about ten seconds to include earlier than growing to medium velocity for 2 minutes.
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Pour the batter into the ready pan. Bake for 45-50 minutes or till a skewer or toothpick inserted into the cake comes out clear or with just some crumbs connected.
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Over the last quarter-hour of baking, make the glaze.
Glaze Directions
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In a saucepan, stir the glaze components (sugar, butter, water, coconut rum) over low warmth till butter has melted. Elevate the warmth to medium warmth, stirring continually till it begins to boil. (Watch out-It might boil over if you’re not stirring.) Boil for 3 minutes and take away from warmth.
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This glaze can be poured over the cake simply after the baked cake is pulled from the oven and nonetheless within the pan. Pour the nice and cozy glaze over the cake (nonetheless in pan) and let it sit for quarter-hour to soak up.
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After quarter-hour has handed, when the glaze has been absorbed, place your cake plate/pedestal the wrong way up towards the cake pan after which flip all of it as one in order that the cake plate is now proper facet up with the inverted pan on prime. Take away the can pan to disclose the cake.
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This cake may be saved at room temperature in an hermetic container or underneath a cake dome.
If you’re utilizing a smaller pan than this, the overall rule of thumb is to not fill your pan greater than â…” full or you’ll run the danger of it overflowing because it bakes.
