I purchased a cake for a friend from a bakery. It is a specialty cake made with rum. I thought that the rum was used for cooking to flavor but would cook out of the cake. The cake had so much alcohol it was burning our throats and no one could eat it. Thank goodness the adults tasted it before the kids got to sample it. Needless to say we brought it back and told them there was so much alcohol it burned our throats. Apparently they just pour the rum over the cake. The bakery acted shocked because I told her we were going to give it to the kids. I didn't know they did this. I thought the alcohol was supposed to cook out of it. I am pregnant and this would have been equivalent to drinking. Was there an error in preparation or are cakes made this way? If they are, why don't they come with a warning label like alcoholic beverages? Like I said, I always thought the alcohol burned out to leave the flavor only.
2007-08-01 06:32:36 · 11 answers · asked by M L 1 in Food & Drink ➔ Other - Food & Drink
Some rum cakes are soaked in rum after the cake is finished so you're getting all the alcohol from the rum.
The bakery should bake it clear that the cake is "soaked" in rum and not flavored with rum.
2007-08-01 06:37:05 · answer #1 · answered by Dave C 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Depending on the method used, it might or might not cook out the alcohol.
Traditional Fruitcake has both liquor in the batter and it's periodically splashed over the cooked cake. (Very tasty, btw).
Rum cakes sold in stores should be labelled correctly to state whether the rum is in the BATTER or was added as a "flavoring" (usually meaning it was splashed on after baking). Check the list of ingredients. If the liquor is near the end of the list - chances are it was baked into the batter and would have been "cooked out".
I hope the bakery gave you restitution for the mishap!!!
2007-08-01 07:52:04 · answer #2 · answered by faith 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
depends on the cake & the maker.
most often, rumcake has most of the alcohol added either just after baking or right towards the end of baking, so the rum does not cook out (there is usually a small amount in the batter that does mostly cook out too).
cooking w/alcohol as a flavoring, you add the alcohol then cook the food, causing MOST of the alcohol to cook off, but not all.
there are many dishes in which the alcohol is added after most or all of the cooking is done, those will contain the full (or nearly so) amount of alcohol that is added.
2007-08-01 06:39:59 · answer #3 · answered by Act D 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I make a great rum cake.
There is rum in the cake mixture and even more in the glaze that goes over the cake.This does not burn off since you don't cook the glaze after the Rum is added.
As for being pregnant- no need to worry. there is not enough rum in the entire cake to be considered "drinking ", and you only had one piece.
Congrats on your pregnancy.
2007-08-01 07:45:57 · answer #4 · answered by Cammie 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree with you there should have been some kind of warning. I have made rum cakes and cheesecakes with liquer but it cooks out at a certain temperature. I would think that pouring the rum directly over the cake would have made it VERY soggy!
2007-08-01 06:38:44 · answer #5 · answered by Jean S 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are different ways to do cakes. If you bake a cake with alcohol in it, the alcohol will evaporate leaving only the flavor. But if you have a cake that is soaked in it, obviously it is alcoholic. They really should have warned you or posted a sign or notice, but just for future sake I would ask for sure...
2007-08-01 06:37:55 · answer #6 · answered by Life is Crazy, so am I 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am allergic to alcohol and will experience an abnormal reaction to any alcohol whatever in my system.
It is life or death for me - so I have done the research.
Very many people, even people in AA not aware that alcohol does not entirely evaporate when used in cooking. They have been told that alcohol cooks off. Recent FDA studies confirm that is doesn't.
Examples of percentages of alcohol retained in cooked foods can be found here:
http://www.dannyschwarzhoff.net/screens/alcoholicallergy_files/AlcoholDoesNotAlwaysCookOff.doc
Peace,
Danny S
http://recoveredalcoholic.blogspot.com
2007-08-03 02:12:17 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Too bad
the bakery did act shocked as you pointed out ,,why didn't you pick up on that..
I am certain no harm was done . you did not eat the whole cake ??? Right...
the amount was far to small to be absorbed by your fetus ..
You ingest alcohol from many foods in small doses every day.
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2016-10-01 04:52:24 · answer #9 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was put in after baking, And yes, they should have had a label on it . They're selling alcohol even if it was camouflaged. in a desert.
2007-08-01 06:40:26 · answer #10 · answered by fuzzykitty 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋