Ingredients
1 cup pecans or walnuts, chopped
1 pkg. (18-1/2 oz.) yellow cake mix
1 pkg. (3-3/4 oz.) instant vanilla pudding mix
4 eggs
1/2 cup cold water
1/2 cup salad oil
1/2 cup dark rum

Directions
Grease and flour a 10-inch tube cake pan. Sprinkle the chopped nuts over the bottom of the pan.

Mix the cake ingredients (cake mix, pudding mix, eggs, water, oil and rum) together. Pour the batter over the chopped nuts.

Bake at 325 degrees for one hour. Cool.

Invert the cake onto a serving plate and prick the top of the cake. Drizzle the glaze over the top and sides of the cake and allow the cake to absorb the glaze. Repeat until all the glaze has been used.

Glaze

Ingredients
1/2 cup butter
1/4 cup water
1 cup sugar
1/2 cup dark rum

Directions
Melt the butter in a saucepan. Stir in the water and sugar. Bring the mixture to a boil and boil for five minutes while stirring constantly. Remove from heat and stir in the rum.