Reviewed: Jan. 30, 2011

I have made this cake twice now and it gets raves from EVERYONE. Usually, it's gone within the hour. Oh... one change I make is that since I don't drink rum, I just toss in the entire pint into the batter to get rid of it. It doesn't hurt the recipe in the least, it only adds flavor-- which makes it even delicious in my opinion! You'll have a hit at any party with this.

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John Pianella

Reviewed: Jan. 7, 2011

Delicious but my grandma makes it better.

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jadey

Reviewed: Dec. 15, 2010

This was a hit at Thanksgiving! Very moist, not too rummy, really pretty. I melted some chocolate to glaze it, though it really looked quite pretty as it was. Everyone was quite impressed. Thanks for sharing!

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Amy F.

Cooking Level: Intermediate

Reviewed: Dec. 13, 2010

So delicious and easy! I love the fact that this can be made with cake mix. It's so quick to make and tastes much better than any scratch rum cake I have ever made. I served it with fresh whipped cream and all of my guests oohed and ahhed over it...thanks for the great recipe! The only modification that I made was I used only 1/2 cup of sugar for the glaze, I don't like super sweet glazes and that was perfect. I let it soak for about 60 minutes before turning out of pan and that seemed to work well.

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swimmy23

Reviewed: Feb. 11, 2010

This cake is so moist and easy to make.I followed the recipe exactly except I added a bit of rum extract.It doesn't have a strong rum flavour ,it is just right.I will definately make this cake again.

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Colleen L

Cooking Level: Expert

Living In: North Bay, Ontario, Canada

Reviewed: Feb. 3, 2009

cake was very blah-too much rum-overpowering- cake kind of dry despite the pudding mix and baking it for the minimum amount specified in the recipe-disappointing recipe

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SkinnyCook

Cooking Level: Expert

Reviewed: Jan. 25, 2009

I also lessened the rum in the glaze.

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mieshka

Reviewed: Dec. 24, 2008

With the addition of a chocolate ganache on the top, this rates five stars. I also made this in a 9X13 inch pan because I have trouble getting cakes out of pans (baked 40 minutes). Before baking I put the nuts and some coconut on top of the cake mix (instead of bottom). After baking, I let it cool then used the chocolate ganache recipe from this website. Oh yeah, I also added some chocolate chips to the cake before baking. The men at work really seemed to enjoy this cake.

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DUEDOG

Reviewed: Oct. 22, 2008

Ok licking the spoon and bowl of this cake is twice as fun as a normal cake!!! This cake was amazing!!! Everyone liked it, even my mother... who is critical of everything! I made extra glaze and concentrated it on the outsides of the cake so it would soak to the top. Next time I will take the cake out and pour some glaze in the pan and put the cake back in to glaze the top a bit more. Next time I might add a bit more rum to the cake, not to the glaze... the parts saturated in glaze were fine, the parts that were just cake you couldn't taste the rum quite as much. It was SOOOOOOOO moist! Everyone loved it. My sister almost ate half the cake!

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