Mami’s Rum Cake (Bizcocho de Ron) Recipe on Food52 (2024)

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How intoxicating is rum cake? ›

An average rum cake has around 1/2 cup rum to bake the cake and eating two to three pieces of dry rum cake is too less to get you drunk. However, if you soak the cake in rum after baking and serve it after refrigeration, then eating too much cake can get you a little intoxicated.

Gather the ingredients for Jamaican rum cake

To make the cake, Rapone uses almond flour, all-purpose flour, sugar, baking powder, vegetable oil, butter, milk, eggs, vanilla paste, vanilla instant pudding mix, pecans, and rum. If you have no almond flour, however, there's no need to run out and get some.

A rum baba or baba au rhum is a small yeast cake saturated in syrup made with hard liquor, usually rum, and sometimes filled with whipped cream or pastry cream.

The science is unmistakable: alcohol is still present in food after preparation and cooking. Even after long periods of heating, trace amounts of alcohol remain, which could adversely affect a recovering alcoholic.

Can kids eat a rum cake? Yes. 99.5% of the rum in our cakes is cooked off in the baking and boiling process. Although not all kids love the rum flavour in the cake, they can certainly share a piece for dessert with the family.

Rum cake is best stored at room temperature to maintain its flavor and texture. Refrigeration can cause dryness and alter its taste.

I recommend using a good-quality white or dark rum. I've used Wray & Nephew (a popular Jamaican white rum) and Myers's Dark (another Jamaican rum that is dark). While a white rum is okay to use, I do *highly recommend* using a dark/aged rum.

The creation of rum cake can undoubtedly be attributed the Bahamas' bootlegging history.

Because of the rum in the cake, it can act as a preservative and can be stored in an air-tight container at room temperature, not in direct light. As a result of proper care and in excellent conditions, a rum cake can last up to 10 days. If you freeze it and store it correctly, the cake can last a couple of months.

Who invented rum cake? ›

Caribbean rum cake is thought to have originated with British colonists, who began settling on the islands during the 18th century, bringing with them recipes for steamed fruit puddings. Local chefs soon adapted these recipes incorporating local ingredients and liquors.

Wealthy Christian households were expected to give alms and treats in the form of Soul Cakes to the soulers. Soul cakes are small baked cakes similar to scones, mixed with warming spices and decorated with a cross made of dried fruit or cut into the cake.

Technically, funeral cake is a chocolate sheet cake with fudge icing and topped with crunchy pecans and big enough to feed a crowd—which you may recognize as Texas Sheet Cake.

An Elvis Presley cake is a single-layer classic yellow cake that's topped with a pineapple glaze. Much like a poke cake, the syrup and juices of the pineapple will seep into the cake through fork holes, resulting in a decadent, ultra-moist cake.

The origins of Baba au Rhum come from the babka - a yeast cake that can still be found in Poland and Ukraine. In fact, Baba means "grandmother", while babka means something more affectionate roughly translating to "little grandmother."' So how did a Polish cake make it to France?

However, even if a cake doesn't have any booze-soaked fruits, it can still get you drunk if it contains enough liquor. For example, a traditional plum cake made with wine and rum can have up to 3.5% alcohol by volume (ABV).

No. Each cake has no more than . 5% alcohol by volume, therefore, it is considered non-alcoholic. Don't think so, rum used in cooking will not make you intoxicated.

Yes, there's a lot of rum in it, and it's definitely not for those avoiding alcohol.

They contain less than half of 1% alcohol so appropriate for all ages and cultures. If you are feeling tipsy after enjoying our rum cake, you are simply high on our delicious taste of the islands.