There’s a rum cake at Modern Pastry in Boston that will make you reconsider everything you thought you knew about cake.
This isn’t some dry, booze-soaked disappointment that tastes like someone poured rum on a mediocre cake and called it a day, this is the real deal, and it’s spectacular.
Too many people have encountered bad rum cake at office parties or potlucks, the kind that’s either bone-dry or so saturated with alcohol that eating it feels like a drinking game.
These experiences have given rum cake an undeserved reputation as the dessert equivalent of a participation trophy, something that exists but nobody’s particularly excited about it…