ORANGE RUM CAKE

• 1 cup butter, softened
• 1 and 1/2 cups sugar
• 2 and 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
• 3 eggs
• 1 tsp. vanilla
• 1/2 tsp. salt
• 1 tsp. baking powder
• 1 Tbsp. orange zest, grated
• 1/3 cup orange juice
• 1/4 cup rum

Cream together butter and sugar. Add remaining ingredients and mix well. Grease and flour a tube pan. Pour batter into pan and bake at 350 degrees for 45 - 50 minutes. If you don't want to use rum you may increase orange juice to 1/2 cup and use 1 tsp. of rum extract.

If tube pan is large shorten cooking time.