Gluten-Free Caribbean Rum Cake
Prep Time 15 Minutes Difficulty Easy Cook Time 60 Minutes Serves 16 pc
This holiday season wouldn’t be complete without a Gluten-Free Caribbean Rum Cake. This Caribbean-Style Rum Cake is a super moist cake infused with sweet butter rum syrup making this cake extra delicious.
In the Caribbean, this rum cake is often served during the Christmas festivities. This most flavourful cake will make a dessert platter stand out from most.
What is Caribbean Rum Cake?
If you are unfamiliar with the Caribbean Rum Cake, it is a sponge cake soaked overnight in a sweet butter rum syrup. The rum cake’s flavour intensifies with each day and will keep for several days at room temperature.
This gluten-free dessert is extra special because it has a delicate rum flavour, and the cake is super soft and moist. This holiday dessert is truly outstanding and different from your typical Christmas cakes.
The cake itself is nothing fancy – it is all about the butter rum syrup. To infuse the cake, you will need to poke holes in the cake after baking.
The holes allow the cake to absorb the buttery flavourful rum syrup. By soaking the cake with the syrup, the cake becomes super soft, moist and incredibly tasty.
Is alcohol gluten-free?
Not all alcohol is gluten-free! Even if it is made with wheat, barley or rye, pure distilled liquor is considered gluten-free.
Then again, a beer that is often made with wheat or barley is not gluten-free because it is not distilled. Beer is mostly fermented with yeast.
Also, be careful of distilled liquors with added flavourings or other additives because they may not be gluten-free.
When it comes to rum, because it is distilled, it is gluten-free. However, some rums are flavoured and often are not gluten-free.
What about wine? Wine is fermented, not distilled, and most wines are considered gluten-free. Wine is made from naturally gluten-free grapes. But, some brewing processes can result in gluten contamination.
If you are looking for one more gluten-free dessert to add to your dessert platter, this Gluten-Free Caribbean Rum Cake is a must try dessert recipe. This Caribbean dessert is always a huge hit during holiday festivities. Enjoy!
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Can this be made in a different kind of pan? I don’t own a bundt pan.
you can use a round pan with removable bottom or a square pan lined with parchment paper. The cake will take longer to bake, I am not sure how much longer, but probably another 15 minutes. Be sure to do the toothpick test. If the top of the cake starts to get too dark, cover the cake loosely with foil paper. Good luck
Delicious!
I have been looking for a gluten-free rum cake recipe and this sounds perfect. Thank you
Love this! My 14 year old daughter followed the recipe and amd made it for new Years Eve… It was sooo delicious! So much for the 5 pounds I lost before the holidays…!
Thank you, I know how you feel, but sometimes we have to spoil ourselves, as long as we get back on track!
I never get to eat rum cake! As huge fans of Tortuga rum cake, my family absolutely loved this! I usually watch them eating rum cake in envy but this time I got to eat it! Honestly this recipe is so easy to make, and the end result is delicious! Thank you so much!
This Welsh girl is extremely happy!
thank you for letting me know, your comments are much appreciated!
Best rum cake I have ever tasted!
a stunning rum cake, I had no idea that gluten-free cakes can taste this good. Thank you so much for this recipe
thank you Annja xx
Absolutely scrumptious! I have Celiac disease and baked this for a family dinner. It was such a hit that my non-gluten-free son-in-law requested it for his birthday cake. It has now been entered into our Family Favorites cookbook – thank you so much!
Thank you Valerie, comments like yours make my job very rewarding!
I made this rum cake for Thanksgiving it was a huge hit, definitely making it for Christmas. Thank you, your recipes are so easy to follow and make!