Recipe - Rum-Raisin Pound Cake

1 One half cup Raisins; Not Golden
1 One fourth cup AllPurpose Flour; Sifted
1 teaspoon Baking powder
One half teaspoon Salt
1 One fourth cup Unsalted butter; room
temperature
1 2/3 cup Sugar
5 lg Eggs
7 tablespoon Dark rum
2 teaspoon Vanilla extract
One half cup Powdered sugar
2 teaspoon Whipping cream

Preheat oven to 350'F. Butter and flour 12cup Bundt pan. Toss raisins with
2 tablespoons flour in small bowl. Combine remaining flour, baking powder
and salt in medium bowl. Using electric mixer, beat butter in a large bowl
until light. Add 1 2/3 cups sugar and beat until fluffy. Add eggs 2 at a
time, beating after each addition until well blended. Beat in 6 tablespoons
of rum and vanilla. Mix in flour mixture. Fold in raisin mixture. Spoon
batter into prepared pan. Bake cake until top is golden and tester inserted
near center comes out clean, about 1 hour. Cool in pan on rack 10 minutes.
Turn out cake onto rack and cool completely.

Stir powdered sugar and 1 tablespoon rum in bowl until smooth. Mix in
cream. Spoon over cake. Let stand until glaze is set, about 30 minutes.

Recipe by: Bon Appetite

Posted to MCRecipe Digest V1 #975 by "Bob & Carole Walberg"
walbergr@mb.sympatico.ca on Dec 30, 1997