rum cake

This is a wonderful holiday cake.

Cake:
1/2 cup Bacardi Rum
1 cup chopped pecans
1 18.5 oz package yellow cake mix*
1 3 3/4 oz package Instant Vanilla pudding
4 eggs
1/2 cup cold water
1/2 cup vegetable oil
* if using cake mix with pudding already inside, omit the pudding, use 3 eggs instead of 4, and use 1/3 cup oil instaed of 1/2

Glaze:
1/2 cup Bacardi Rum
1/4 lb butter
1/4 cup water
1 cup sugar

Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Grease and flour 10" tube or 12-cup Bundt pan. Sprinkle nuts over bottom of the pan. Mix all cake ingredients together. Pour batter over nuts. Bake 1 hour. Cool. Invert on serving plate. Prick top. Spoon and brush glaze evenly over top and sides. Allow cake to absorb glaze. Repeat until glaze is used up.

Glaze:
Melt butter in saucepan. Stir in water and sugar. Boil 5 minutes, stirring constantly. Remove from heat. Stir in rum.