Apple Nut Cake with Hot Rum Sauce
Apple Nut Cake with Hot Rum Sauce | Celebrate Fall with this delicious cake! Bringing flavors together like apples, pecans, and an assortment of spices is all you’ll need to satisfy your comfort food cravings. PLUS! You don’t want to forget to add a drizzle of the Hot Rum Sauce!
This dessert is a cross between a cake and a pudding cake. Cut into squares or serve a spoonful into dessert dishes before blanketing it with a generous amount of rum sauce.
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Apple Nut Cake with Hot Rum Sauce
Yield:
Serves 12
Prep Time:
20 minutes
Cook Time:
1 hour
Total Time:
1 hour 20 minutes
Ingredients
For the Apple Nut Cake:
- 1/2 cup butter, softened
- 2 cups sugar
- 2 eggs
- 2 tablespoons water
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1/2 teaspoon butter flavoring
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 2 teaspoons cinnamon
- 5 apples (granny Smith), Peeled and finely chopped
- 1 cup pecans, chopped
For the Hot Rum Sauce:
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 cup water
- 1/2 cup butter
- 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
- 1/8 teaspoon salt
- 2 teaspoons rum or rum extract
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/4 teaspoon butter flavoring
Instructions
For the Apple Nut Cake:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Grease and flour a 9x13-inch baking pan.
- Mix butter until creamy, add sugar, beat well.
- Add eggs one at a time.
- Add water and flavorings, beating well.
- In separate bowl combine flour, baking soda, salt and cinnamon.
- Add to the butter mixture, beating well.
- Stir in apples and pecans.
- Spoon mixture into prepared pan and spread evenly.
- Bake 55 to 60 minutes.
- Serve warm with warm sauce.
For the Hot Rum Sauce:
- Combine in a medium saucepan sugar, water, butter, flour and salt.
- Bring mixture to a boil stirring constantly.
- Stir in flavorings, and return to a boil stirring constantly. Makes 2-1/3 cups.
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Oh that cake looks yummy!
Stopping by from Tatertots & Jello. This looks delicious.
This looks delicious. Thank you for sharing this with Foodie Friends Friday.
Joanne/Winelady Cooks
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I made this cake this weekend, it was soooo good. I will be making it again im sure for thanksgiving to take to the families houses.
Yay Rebecca! I’m so glad you liked the recipe. ♥
Does the rum sauce need to be refrigerated?
Hi Rebecca, the sauce doesn’t need to be refrigerated.
What is butter flavoring
Hi Kenna,
Artificial butter flavoring is a flavoring used to give a food the taste and smell of butter. It may contain diacetyl, acetylpropionyl, or acetoin, three natural compounds in butter that contribute to its characteristic taste and smell.