Post #134314 by Barbary Kait on Fri, Jan 7, 2005 1:24 AM

Here's a from scratch rum cake that I do love, however it isn't a key lime cake- you'll have to do that modification yourself:

From Culinaria: The Carribean
Captain Morgan's Rum Cake
(This is evidently made for pirates week in the Caymans are refers to the Captain Morgan, not the rum company)

3 cups flour
2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
pinch salt
1 1/2 c butter, softened
1 1/2 c sugar
1 tsp vanilla extact
3 eggs
1 egg yolk
1TBSP grated lemon zest
1 c dark rum
1 c heavy cream
Additional rum for sprinkling cake
Confectioners sugar to dust.

Preheat oven 350. Mix in usual manner for a cake, pour into g&f tube pan and back for about an hour. Cool. Sprinkle with rum to appropriate blood alcohol content. Dust with confectioner's when dry.

Very wonderful. Very bad for you. It could be easily modified with key lime zest and juice or extract.