A few years ago I ended up on the beach at the end of the Florida Keys in mid-December. I had just finished a four month voyage by ship around the world and felt like a piece of flotsam washed up on shore. I set up camp on Bahia Honda Key and started to engage in a mind destroying battle with the sand fleas. Luckily my friend Joey Deckle caught up with me and helped me gain my sanity. He pulled me off that lonely key and coerced me into whiling away a week and visiting some friends in Key West. While we were there we ran across the Tortuga Caribbean Rum Cake store. We tasted our way around and around, slowly getting a nice buzz, and just grooving on those amazingly delicious cakes. We tried banana, chocolate, coconut, key lime, pineapple, and the original. All soaked in five year old aged rum.

We bought a whole bunch in sizes large and small. Some to eat that night around the campfire and more as Christmas presents for our families. Well, I am ashamed to say that I never got around to giving away any of the Tortuga rum cakes as gifts. I kept having a taste or three and before you knew it they were all gone.

Now it's almost exactly two years later and I just ran across an article about Tortuga Rum cakes which reminded me about them. I was glad to hear the the December issue of Bon Appetit is going to have a special promotion for the rum cakes. You can get them in many stores like Bevmo and order them online from their store and other retailers. You can also order them through Amazon.com in all sizes and flavors. Now I can make it up to my friends and family and order a few of these incredible cakes, actually I better order way more than I need. I don't want to end up like last time, eating all their presents and feeling so ashamed. I recommend you get a few extras yourself, that way you can give your cake and eat it too.