Food_Traditions_Monica Rum Cake

[water running]
[upbeat music]

- Alright, cake time.

Three and a quarter cups. This is my mother's famous rum cake. The memory is one of me being a young kid, getting to stay up 'cause my parents were throwing one of their famous house parties. Just to help the flavor along, you know. Eating this, my mom's famous rum cake, on the stairs and watching the grown folks dance. People would get dressed up and they'd dance and they'd play cards and we don't have parties like that anymore, you know?

That smells good. It's a happy smell. Rum and butter, no problem. What I want to recreate is just that feeling of, through deliciousness and welcomeness, the food ways and the musical traditions, they share the same space, they influenced one another, I think.

Bye, momma, we'll see you in 45. Just a little more butter. They know how I see this in Wisconsin too. I go to Cheese Days. Cheese Days isn't Cheese Days without polka. 
[chuckles warmly]

It is a grown-up cake and that's probably part of why it felt so special to have it when I was a kid but it looks pretty good.

Mm-hmm! 
[laughing]
Yup, that's just fine!

That little bit of extra rum definitely helped.