Hot Buttered Rum for a Cold Winter Night

Hot Buttered Rum isn’t a drink we hear about too often.  But on a cold winter night it can warm you even more than a hot chocolate. As sub-zero weather, that is supposed to be the coldest in at least 10 years, hits the mid-west and New York City is freezing, go home, put on some warm pajamas and cuddle up with a Hot Buttered Rum.`

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Banana Cake with Walnuts, Raisins and Spiced Rum

I prefer to make this cake a day ahead of time to allow the moisture and taste from the glaze to seep through the cake.

I have 4 super ripe bananas in the kitchen, you can smell banana when you enter the room.  I would usually have one of 2 reactions:  toss them or make banana bread.  I almost decided on the latter.  However, I already know the Queen of Banana Bread is Lia Donato, and since I don’t like being a runner up, I had to go for something different.  Banana Cake! Yep, Banana Cake with Spiced Rum! Yep, Banana Cake with Spiced Rum, Walnuts and Raisins!  Yep, that’s it.  A Banana Cake with Spiced Rum, Walnuts and Raisins.  What could be bad?

I used a Bundt pan, but it can be made in a 9” x 2” round cake pan.  I have lots of fancy Bundt pans, but I decided to use a regular round one for this since it is New Year and it should be a continuing circle.  Plus, when a round Bundt pan is used, the glaze not only is poured on the top and sides, but also in the middle. Yum

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Banana Cake with Walnuts, Raisins and Spiced Rum