Rum Cake

[foolish_m0rtal]

So you buy a circa 16 oz. bottle of Bacardi from the ABC store to make plum pudding. What else are you supposed to do with the rest of it? It does not help that my mother was standing behind me during the mixing process crowing, "More rum! More!" Very awkward.

In the middle of this recipe my mom started looking around for the rum we'd bought, and she said, "Where'd we put the rum?" To which of course I had to say, "Where's the rum gone?" and cackle madly. She thought it was the fumes, maybe, and didn't ask questions. (She's faithfully fallen asleep through all the Pirates movies)

(for recipe, skip down to the cut. For a related anecdote/rant about securing said Bacardi, read on)

Help me out on this: apparently the ABC store has a rule where the person who carries the bottle up to the front is the one who pays. (I personally feel this discriminates grossly against armless people, who have reason more than the rest of us to drink anyway)

So I'm carrying the bottle up front for my mother, who's digging around in her purse for her ID. The woman asks ME for MY id and then when we explain, proceeds to prattle on like it's totally obvious that this rule is in place. I am a freak stickler for the rules and have these huge moral crises about breaking them. But if I think a rule is completely stupid, God help you, because I can beat out the rest of the defiant punk-nosed delinquents any day.

So I sarcastically ask her if I can carry it out. She says, with a completely straight face, "No. You can't carry it to the front because it will look like you're buying it. And you can't carry it out because it will look like I sold it to you."

MotherF*CKER! Really? These tiny ridiculous rules are only in place because they are not followed. Seriously, America has one of the highest underage drinking rates I've ever seen, so obviously this is NOT working.

So I just tell my mom, loudly, that were going to the grocery store next, so I hope I'm allowed to carry something for her there.

They should have this rule tacked up somewhere in the store or hey, even at the REGISTER. I even looked through the website and couldn't find anything. Just watch. My mom wants me to make plum pudding again, so next time I am going to do the same exact thing. And when they pitch a fit, I am going to come down on them like a brick wall.

• 1 cup chopped walnuts
• 1 package yellow cake mix
• 1/2 cup dark rum
• 4 eggs
• 1/2 cup water
• 1/2 cup vegetable oil
• 1 package instant vanilla pudding mix

1. Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Grease and flour a 10 inch tube or Bundt pan. Sprinkle half the nuts over the bottom of the pan.
2. Mix together the cake mix, 1/2 cup dark rum, eggs, 1/2 cup water, oil, and vanilla pudding mix. Pour half batter over the nuts in the pan.Cover with the rest of the nuts, and then top with the remaining batter. You'll have a nice nut layer.
   
3. Bake for about 40 minutes, checking it during the last ten. You don't want it to dry out. Cool, and invert cake on a serving plate. Prick the top of the cake.Sprinkle the remaining rum over the cake. Cover overnight to let rum soak in.
   

There was some kind of glaze nonsense they were talking about for the remaining rum, but really it just adds more unnecessary sugar to the cake, and this way the rum has direct contact instead of evaporating away in the glaze while cooking.

Comments

[grimmsical.livejournal.com]

This one looks really good but I have no idea what it is. xD

[angstbunny.livejournal.com]

LOL, the moment I saw the word "rum" in your entry, I was making a "where's the rum gone" joke in my head.

[(Anonymous)]

Don't feel bad love. I got kicked out of Kroger during a Caine shopping trip, because I legally bought wine, before the 12am cutoff, and tied it in a grocery bag and continued my shopping. It was kept out of sight in the bottom of my cart, and they still stalked me through the store and told me that I could not have it in the store after 12am. All this while I had a cart full of groceries I'd planned to purchase. Great customer service no?

[foolish-m0rtal.livejournal.com]

aw geez, that sucks. Maybe these guys had nothing else better to do at that time of night. I'm not sure if I made friends with the Kroger wine guy after I shot down his Riesling suggestion for a Sauvignon Blanc. I swear, Europeans came up with the wine pairings for Indian food. They always drink ridiculously sweet wine because it's 'spicy food.' But it's not spicy for us, so I don't understand why the same wine rules should apply to us.

Who is this, btw?