Rum Cake

Rum Cake

From   Pure Sin

Prep: 45 minutes

Cook: 35 minutes

Method: Easy

Course: Dessert

Type: French

Cocoa, rum, raisins and walnuts make merry in this delicious cake

Ingredients

  • Refined flour (maida) 1 cup
  • Rum 15 mls
  • Butter 1 cup + to grease
  • Sugar 1 cup
  • Eggs 2 to 3
  • Ccocoa powder 6 tbsps
  • Baking powder 1 tsp
  • Milk ½ cup
  • Raisins ½ cup
  • Walnuts, chopped ½ cup

Methods

  • Preheat oven to 180º C. Grease a cake tin with some butter.
  • Take butter, sugar and eggs in a mixing bowl and beat with an electric beater till light and fluffy.
  • Sieve flour, cocoa powder and baking powder into the bowl and fold in well.
  • Add rum and keep mixing till all the ingredients mix well with each other. Add raisins and walnuts and fold in.
  • Put this batter in a buttered cake tin, keep the tin in the preheated oven and bake for 30-35 minutes.
  • Take it out of the oven and let it cool down to room temperature. Demould, cut into wedges, arrange on a serving platter and serve.