Post #755301 by the_devils_tool on Sat, Nov 28, 2015 2:18 PM

In short:
Has anyone baked rum cake using 151 (of any kind) and did you have to modify cook time/measurements to account for the higher alcohol content?

The long way round:
Rum cake recipes generally call for a rum poured directly into the batter, and then additional rum added to a butter/sugar mixture as a glaze, and the glaze is also injected into the cake after baking for additional pockets of heaven. I like my cakes to be really boozy but have yet to find anyone who complains about the cake regardless of how boozy it is or isn't.

Most recently I did a pretty plain Cruzan White with Cruzan White Glaze (ended up being the most boring cake ever, even if everyone liked it). I've previously done a Mount Gay XO with a Hamilton Demarara glaze (pretty great), and if my boozy memory servers me, I've done a Kracken with a Appleton Estate Extra glaze.
I'm thinking that a 151 is a little TOO boozy to use as the glaze, but if added to the batter I figure it's going to require some modification to cook time or quantity due to the higher alcohol content. There's plenty of other cool combinations (I'm looking at you Old Monk) but 151 is somewhat of a puzzler.

Before I sacrifice some cakes and/or rum, has any of you tiki-philes run through this before?

Thanks in advance!