The day before you want to bake the cake ... rum or black tea. Stop feeding a week before you want to ice it. If you prefer softer icing, most of the widely available brands of fondant icing are ...
Allow the cake to cool in the tin. Invert, remove from the tin. Invert again and cool on a wire rack. Preheat the oven to 180°C. Soak the raisins in the rum for 30 minutes. Drain and save the rum.
Some even taste better after a few days, like a ginger cake. Loaf cakes also freeze brilliantly, just wrap them well in cling film to keep any air out and eat within 3 months. Loaf cakes tend to ...
The recipe for Judith’s rich chocolate rum cake arrived to me overseas, kindly handwritten out by my father, by post. Judith lived on the farm next door to us and, like my mum, was a splendid cook.
Enjoy! WHAT: The name of the event alone is enough to get you smackin’ your lips. The third annual Rum Cake and Caribbean Black Cake Fest is returning — appropriately enough — to the Island ...