This dessert recipe mixes dark rum into the batter of a moist and sweet chocolate layer cake. Serve this cake up to adult friends and family as the perfect capstone to a group dinner or celebration!
How To Make Chocolate Rum Cake
This chocolate rum cake recipe has rich flavors that adults with surely enjoy.
Ingredients
- 1 cup unsalted butter, softened
- 2 cups sugar
- 4 pcs eggs, large
- ½ cup dark rum
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 cup unsweetened cocoa
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp baking soda
- ½ tsp salt
- ⅛ tsp ground nutmeg
- 1 cup hot water
- 1 tsp almond extract
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 3 cups chocolate mousse frosting
Instructions
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Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
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Beat butter in a bowl with an electric mixer until fluffy. Add sugar to butter, beating well.
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Beat in the eggs one at a time along with rum until blended.
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Sift and combine flour and the rest of the dry ingredients, then add to the sugar mixture in 5 separate portions, pouring a bit of hot water in between each portion.
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Beat mixture at low speed until well blended, then stir in the vanilla and almond extracts.
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Pour batter into a greased and floured round cake pan.
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Bake for around 27 minutes, then let cool for 10 minutes. Remove cake layers from the pans and let cool on wire racks.
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Spread 1 cup frosting atop the bottom cake layer and stack the next cake on top of each other. Frost the cake's exterior with the remaining frosting.
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Chill in the refrigerator, garnish with chocolate shavings and serve.
Nutrition
- Sugar: 50g
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- Calcium: 57mg
- Calories: 574kcal
- Carbohydrates: 80g
- Cholesterol: 63mg
- Fat: 25g
- Fiber: 4g
- Iron: 3mg
- Monounsaturated Fat: 7g
- Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g
- Potassium: 208mg
- Protein: 6g
- Saturated Fat: 16g
- Sodium: 344mg
- Trans Fat: 1g
- Vitamin A: 712IU
- Vitamin C: 1mg
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