Need a butter rum recipe with no alcohol

i love rum cake!!!!

i would advise them that i could boil out the alcohol to what extent it could be boiled out (most but not all) but it's just not gonna be the same cake at all

also that vanilla extract has a fair amount of alcohol

i would have advised the client to pick another flavor

if what i make is not what they want to serve to their guests then i do not do recipe testing for an average order

it's costs by the hour plus ingredients

or they could go with the same rum cake and cupcakes for the kids

but in my mind i would figure they would be disappointed because they already had one they liked

changing it up would result in a lesser cake imo

are there other ways? sure

there are countless rum extracts and other flavor products out there and maybe they are great maybe even better but it's a gamble and a costly one if it doesn't hit the first time--costs in more materials and time to test and costly if they don't like it and loose interest in your services

think of it this way--

one of the fords who made cars was inspecting a new model

when he climbed out of the back seat he said--add some legroom back here--make the car longer

everything was already heading for the production line

I can't even imagine all the re-work they had to do

they had to basically scrap it and start over frame wise and handling/steering and seat sizes and etc

not like adding some water to the soup

so that's what i think of when peeps want to change my formulas

i know they work and i'm ok right there

some bakers accomodate the requests and i will too if they pay for the time and materials for me to be their private pastry chef