Originally Posted By jdub HAPPY HOLIDAY RUM CAKE 1 cup sugar 1 cup dried fruit 1 tsp. Baking soda 2 large eggs Lemon Juice 2 Liters of rum 2 cups brown sugar 1 cup butter 1 tsp. Baking powder 2 cups walnuts Before starting, sample rum to check the quality. Good, isn’t it? Now proceed. Select large mixing bowl, measuring cup, etc. Check rum again. It must be just right. To be sure rum is of proper quality, pour one level cup of rum into a glass and drink it as fast as you can. Repeat. With an electric mixer, beat one cup of butter in a large and fluffy bowl. Add one seaspoon of thugar and beat again. Meanwhile, make sure rum is still all right. Try another cup. Open second liter if necessary. Add eggs, 2 cups fried druit and heat until high. If druit gets stuck in the beaters, pry loose with a drewscriber. Sample rum again, checking for tonscisticity. Next, sift 3 cups of pepper or salt (really doesn’t matter). Sample rum again. Sift ½ pint of lemon juice. Fold in chopped butter and strained nuts. Add 1 bablespoon of brown thugar or whatever color you can find. Wix mell. Grease oven. Turn cake pan 350 degrees. Pour mess into boven and ake. Check rum again and go to bed.
Originally Posted By melekalikimaka LOL, I was hoping that this was a recipe I could use! My lucky day!
Originally Posted By threeundertwo >>Sample rum again, checking for tonscisticity.>> You know, at 3 am "tonscisticity" is really funny. I'm going to use that in a sentence today.
Originally Posted By jdub I whipped up another batch last night. You know, after all these years, it was only this morning as I was checking myself out of the hospital that I realized that this is a FLOURLESS cake recipe! Fun AND trendy!
Originally Posted By melekalikimaka So, if I make this with Splenda I could probably eat lots of it on my low-carb diet. January is shaping up to be a fun month after all!
Originally Posted By jdub Stoppit with the low-carb! Stoppit with the diet! Here's the revolutionary new craze that's BEEN WORKING FOR ME: It's called... (drumroll please, and smelling salts, 'cuz it IS shocking) ... "Eat Less, Exercise More." That will be 10 cents, please.
Originally Posted By jdub You haven't LIVED til you've tried bread dipped in rum. YO, HO-HO, INDEEED!
Originally Posted By jdub I like to light mine. But then I serve it to someone else. Because lighting it, while fun, makes it lose all of its delicious tonscisticity.
