Baba Au Rhum (lighter Version)

Total Time: 2 hrs 55 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 2 hrs 40 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 12
• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1/4 cup sugar
• 2 dry yeast, packages or 60 g fresh yeast
• 1/2 cup milk, warm (no more than 40c)
• 1/4 cup butter
• 3 eggs
• 2 cups sugar
• 1 1/2 cups water
• 1/2 cup black rum (like captain morgan)
• 1 teaspoon fresh lemon juice

Recipe

• 1 (except for the milk, all the other ingredients must be at room temperature. so put them out of the fridge before start cooking).
• 2 dissolve completely the yeast in two tablespoons warm water (40°c) and let stand for 5-10 minutes.
• 3 add the milk, the butter, the sugar and half cup of flour in a mixer bowl. start beating them.
• 4 add the eggs and half of the rest flour until you have a dough.
• 5 add the rest of the flour. cover the bowl with a plastic wrap and a blanket. let it stand for one hour. there must be some bubbles in the dough.
• 6 butter a cake pan and dust it with a little butter, as well.
• 7 put the dough in the pan and let it stand covered for 30-45 minutes more.
• 8 bake in a preheated oven at 175°c for about one hour.
• 9 when you take it out of the oven, using tooth pick make some holes on the cake and pure over as it is still hot the warm syrup.
• 10 let it cool and when it is cold and it had absorbed the syrup transfer into a serving plate.
• 11 syrup:.
• 12 boil the water with the sugar for 5 minutes and remove from heat.
• 13 add the lemon juice and the rum.