A couple of shots of Jack Daniels and a beer will do the trick much more efficiently. But if you want to drown your sorrows in rum cake, it all depends on how you prepare it and how much you eat. Here’s a chart of the percentage of alcohol left in dishes following various methods of preparation.
| Preparation Method | Alcohol Retained | |
| Alcohol added to boiling liquid, and removed from heat | 85% | |
| Alcohol flamed | 75% | |
| No heat, stored overnight | 70% | |
| Baked, 25 minutes, alcohol not stirred into mixture | 45% | |
| Baked or simmered, alcohol stirred into mixture | 15 minutes | 40% |
| 30 minutes | 35% | |
| 1 hour | 25% | |
| 1.5 hours | 20% | |
| 2 hours | 10% | |
| 2.5 hours | 5% | |
Source: U.S. Department of Agriculture
After perusing several reliable rum cake recipes, we found that you usually put in about a half cup of rum and bake for approximately 1 hour. In the end, there’d probably be less than an ounce of alcohol left in the entire cake. So you’d have to have either a very low tolerance for alcohol or the capacity to consume an outlandish amount of baked goods to get hammered on rum cake.
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"Can you get drunk from eating rum cake?" was posted on Monday, May 5th, 2008 at 11:15 pm.
Not even if you ate the whole cake.
1. Rum cake is made with rum extract, not rum.
2. Any alcohol present would be boiled off in the baking anyway.