Hi! So, made this yesterday, as I have been on the hunt for a rum cake from scratch that still lives up to the cake mix version the family is used to :-). I did go ahead and substitute for the pudding mix, though, because I just couldn't bring myself to use the boxed mix, so I subbed in 1/4 cup sugar and 1/4 cup arrowroot powder (this was actually before I saw your substitution listed above, but I think this worked fine actually). Anyway, I think overall it was good, but biggest problem was the the cake didn't really rise. Like at all. When I turned it out on the pan, it was so small looking, not nice and tall like the pic above (and like most of my bundt cakes usually turn out). I have baked lots of bundt cakes in the past (including rum cakes, pound cakes, etc), with no issues. And I am 100% sure that I did add in the baking powder and that the baking powder was fresh (date on it is for 2018, plus we have been doing a lot of holiday baking this month using that baking powder and all have turned out fine). Any ideas on what went wrong? I really think that this cake will have the texture/flavors we were looking for except for the fact that it was rather dense and heavy (and so small and short!!) because it didn't rise...help???

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