This cake is not for children because it is highly alcoholic. To make this cake, you need to soak sultanas in rum for a few days. I always have a jar of rum-steeped sultanas/raisins in my pantry. It’s good to have, because they do magic on simple ice-cream or chocolate or anything.
Cake Tin
Loaf Tin
Ingredients
Butter 125g
Caster Sugar 1/2 cup
Eggs 3
Self-Raising Flour 1 cup
Rum 1 tablespoon
Rum-steeped Sultanas OR Raisins 1/2 cup or more
Coarsely Chopped Walnut 1/2 cup *optional
Method
- Preheat oven to 180C. Lightly grease a loaf tin or line with baking paper.
- Beat Soften Butter and Sugar together in a large bowl until creamy. Add Eggs one at a time, beating well. Add Rum, Rum-steeped Sultanas and Walnuts, then fold Flour into the mixture and combine well.
- Spoon the mixture into prepared loaf tin, smoothing top. Bake for 40-45 minutes or until cooked. Cool in pan for 5 to 10 minutes before turning onto a cooling rack because the cake is fragile.
Comments
COLLEEN DUNN
5/03/2025
Hi Hiroko, when you wrote that you store the extra rum soaked sultana in a jar, do you then put them in the fridge or is the pantry cupboard ok.
Thank you for the recipe, I can’t believe how good it smells as it is cooking.
Regards Colleen
Hiroko
9/03/2025
Hi Colleen. I always keep the jar in the pantry. And it lasts quite a long time.
Nuala Murray
2/09/2023
Hi Hiroko, this recipe for sultana cake looks great. Thanks for sharing. Most kind. Please may I ask how many people does it serve? And what size loaf tin do I need? Thank you and best wishes from London, Nuey
Hiroko
9/09/2023
Hi Nuey. This cake should be enough for 8 servings or more, but I have my husband and son who eat a lot. It will be just 4 servings in my house. Please use a standard size loaf tin. The sizes are all slightly different. If it is slightly smaller, the cake will be taller, OR larger tin will make shorter cake.
Bess Stanley
5/12/2020
Hi Hiroko
this cake is amazing – very easy to make and tastes sensational. We loved it !
Thank you for sharing, I am going to try different recipes from your website over the coming months.
Wishing you a Happy Christmas from us in the UK and thank you again
Bess x
Hiroko
5/12/2020
Thank you, Bess, for such a lovely comment. I wish you a happy festive season, too.
Elizabeth K Kuhns Boyle
20/11/2020
May I post your recipe (with your name and website URL) to my recipe blog http://www.passtherecipe.wordpress.com? Please let me know.
Hiroko
20/11/2020
Thanks for asking. I wish if you could have let me know about you and your blog. There are people who post my recipes on their website for their own profit. If you run your recipe site for the profit, as I see lots of ads on your site, I would decline your request.