You can use a spoon to remove the extra nutmeg if you have just dropped it in. Otherwise, it will just add flavor to the cake. If you are planning to frost the cake, avoid a flavored frosting.
depending how much u put in the mixture you could double or tripple the mixture and make multiple cakes.
"Soak" is a misnomer for what is actually done. What people usually do is to pierce the cake with thin skewers or thin knitting needles and then sprinkle the rum over the cake - do not use too much, you don't want a soggy cake. Wrap the cake in tinfoil or greaseproof paper and place in an airtight container. Repeat the process at weekly intervals - alternating with pouring the rum on the top and on the bottom of the cake.
Yes, that wouldn't change the flavor by too much.
your cake will look and taste like goo in the oven
Depending on the recipe and the volume of batter, one could use a tube pan (angel food cake pan) or bake the cake in two loaf pans.
If you are cooking with it, of course. If you are using it in alcoholic beverage it will be quite difficult. It will take a lot more rum than rum extract if you are cooking with it though because rum extract is very concentrated and non-alcoholic.
yes, it certainly does. Baking soda reacts with acidic ingredients in the batter, producing bubbles of gas that make the cake rise. Too much or too little baking soda puts the acid / alkaline mix off balance, and the cake will fall flat.
Too much
the purpose of baking powder in a cake is to make it rise and not make it flat and if you put too much of baking powder your cake might burst in the oven/microwave what ever you use
After drinking too much rum, Jack was quite inebriated.
Not that much... I mean, how much can it make?
The fruit cake may have been over-baked, so that the interior is too dry to hold together. Another possibility is that too much rum (or liquor) was poured over the cake after baking, so that the cake has lost its integrity.
Don't put too much baking soda when making a cake. Only put as much baking soda as it says.