Mrs. Flo’s Rum Cake

Cake:

1 cup pecans

1 (18 oz) package yellow cake mix

1 (3 oz) package vanilla instant pudding mix

4 eggs

½ cup water

½ cup canola oil

½ cup dark rum

Preheat oven to 325 degrees.  Grease and flour a bundt pan.  Sprinkle nuts over bottom of pan.  Mix all cake ingredients together.  Pour batter over nuts.  Bake 50 minutes.  Cool.  Invert on serving plate.  Prick top and sides.  Spoon glaze over top and sides.  Allow cake to absorb glaze.

Glaze:

½ cup butter

¼ cup water

1 cup sugar

½ cup rum

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