Dear Queenie,
A friend of mine has a delicious cake recipe that uses rum in the batter. The cake has a very strong rum flavour.
I have always heard that the liquor in a recipe burns off during the cooking or baking, but I could swear sometimes I feel a little dizzy after I eat my friend’s cake,
Queenie, could the cake be making me drunk?—Discombobulated
Dear Discombobulated,
I have it on good authority that if the rum is mixed into the batter, not all of it burns off during the baking. So, if it contains a lot of rum, or if you are sensitive to alcohol, or if you eat a lot of the cake, yes, you could be getting an alcohol buzz.
I’d advise you to go easy on that cake, especially when you are driving.
