One can find great recipes for rum cake in many cookbooks. Some of the better ones include 'The Cake Bible', 'Baking with the Cake Boss' and 'Betty Crocker The Big Book of Cakes'.
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One can find a rum sponge cake recipe at their local library. Look under the cooking or recipe sections. Some library's may not have such books. A rum sponge cake recipe can also be found on cooking companies such as AllRecipes.
There's a reasonably good recipe here: http://www.overtherhine.com/orchard/lofiversion/index.php/t2203.html. The recipe forgets to explain that you brush the cake layers with the rum syrup, and add the straight rum to the buttercream once it is cool. I don't think the Bon Ton uses rum at all.
Jamaican rum, and cake
A rum-soaked cake is known as a "baba." After the cake has baked and cooled it is sprinkled with rum and is allowed to soak it in before it is decorated.
A rum-soaked cake is known as a "baba."
Depending on the recipe and the volume of batter, one could use a tube pan (angel food cake pan) or bake the cake in two loaf pans.
A Rum Baba.
A four letter word for rum cake is baba.
This is a babka, or a rum baba.
You can substitute rum extract with vanilla extract or almond extract in your recipe.
A suitable substitute for rum in a cocktail recipe is whiskey or bourbon. These spirits have similar flavor profiles and can be used as a replacement in most rum-based cocktails.
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