Instructions

1. 1 Separate eggs into two mixing bowls and preheat oven to 350°F.
2. 2 Grease 6 cup ring mold or large Savarin Mold with butter, melt remaining butter and keep warm.
3. 3 Sift flour with baking powder into a bowl or onto a sheet of baking paper. Using a whisk, or an electric mixer with whisk attachment, beat egg yolks with sugar until light colored - about 2 minutes, then add sifted flour and baking powder, melted and cooled butter and milk.
4. 4 Mix until all ingredients are well combined.
5. 5 Using clean whisk beat egg whites into stiff peaks. Stir 1/3 of the whites into the batter until fully combined.
6. 6 Carefully fold in the rest of the egg whites - takes about 20 folds.
7. 7 Pour and spread the batter evenly into the greased mold. Bake at 350°F (180°C) for 25 minutes.
8. 8 Remove from oven and allow to cool for five minutes before turning out onto a serving plate.
9. 9 While the cake is baking, prepare the rum syrup:
10. 10 Mix water and sugar in a small saucepan. Bring to a boil on medium heat. Remove and cool 10 minutes. Stir in rum.
11. 11 While the cake is still hot from the oven and cooling on the serving plate, prick it in 30 or so places with a skewer.
12. 12 Spoon the syrup onto the cake. It helps get the most syrup into the cake if you rest the full spoon on the cake and then turn it slowly.
13. 13 Once all the syrup is gone from the pan, drain the unabsorbed syrup from the serving plate back into the pan and repeat the process.
14. 14 It may even take a third time, but eventually all of the syrup should be absorbed by the cake. Allow the cake to cool, then wrap and refrigerate until serving time.