This moist chocolate cake is overflowing with rum flavoring and raisins. It’s great coated with whipped cream or served hot with custard. That’s homemade pumpkin custard in the picture! 
My recipe makes one 9 or 10 inch tube pan (14 servings).
Ingredients:
1 cup water
1/4 cup rum
2/3 cup chopped raisins
3/4 cup butter
1 egg
1 1/4 cups white sugar
1 2/3 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 handful chocolate chips
1/3 cup unsweetened cocoa powder (Dutch Process)
Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease one 9 or 10 inch tube pan.
2. Boil water add rum and raisins. Melt butter and beat egg. Add to the raisin mixture.
3. Sift flour, baking soda, cocoa, and sugar together. Stir into raisin mixture. Add chocolate chips and stir until just combined. If batter is too thick add a little more water. Pour batter into prepared pan.
4. Bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for 40 to 50 minutes. Let cake cool in the pan for 10 minutes then turn out onto a serving dish. Serve cake hot with custard or top cooled cake with whipped cream.
Last month I was invited to participate in the blogging collective “Kwanzaa Culinarians“. Linking writers throughout the African diaspora it includes such heavyweights as Chef Bryant Terry, as well as known foodies like Sanura of “My Life Runs On Food“, ...
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I hardly bake because I prefer savory food and I am weary to bake because if my husband doesn’t eat the cake or whatever, then I will be eating 14 servings of your delicious lip smacking chocolate rum raisin cake ALL BY MYSELF!
Simcooks – that’s too funny
I like savory food, I like sweet, I like salty, hmm I just like to eat I think 
Simcooks – that’s too funny
I like savory food, I like sweet, I like salty, hmm I just like to eat I think 
Does the rum overpower the chocolate? Are the raisins too heavy?
Does the rum overpower the chocolate? Are the raisins too heavy?
Marsha – I only share a recipe if I enjoyed it
Marsha – I only share a recipe if I enjoyed it
Yeh I just wasn’t sure. I make chocolate cake from the box so I didnt know if the raisins would sink etc…
Yeh I just wasn’t sure. I make chocolate cake from the box so I didnt know if the raisins would sink etc…
Marsha – hee
nah .. i read also that if you flour them slightly beforehand it also prevents sinking 
Marsha – hee
nah .. i read also that if you flour them slightly beforehand it also prevents sinking 
Marsha – hee
nah .. i read also that if you flour them slightly beforehand it also prevents sinking 