Hey everyone, it’s Jim, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, jamaican christmas cake. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Jamaican Christmas Cake is one of the most popular of recent trending meals on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. Jamaican Christmas Cake is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.
Jamaican Christmas cake, which is also referred to as Jamaican black cake has long been the most popular Jamaican dessert in Jamaica. Jamaican black cake is thought to be derived from the British figgy pudding, but with an island twist. While it has traditionally been thought of as a Christmas cake, it is actually baked and eaten all year round. A Jamaican Christmas celebration is not complete without traditional Jamaican Christmas Fruit cake.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook jamaican christmas cake using 25 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Jamaican Christmas Cake:
- Prepare 1 1/4 cup Jamaican white over proof rum
- Make ready 1 1/4 cup port wine or red label wine
- Take 1/2 cup raisins
- Prepare 1/2 cup currants
- Get 1/2 cup dates
- Make ready 1/2 cup dried prunes
- Prepare 1/2 cup maraschino cherries
- Make ready 1/2 cup chopped almonds
- Take 1 cup orange juice
- Make ready 1 grated zest from one lime
- Prepare 1 cup dark molasses
- Prepare 2 tbs browning
- Make ready 1 tbs lime juice
- Make ready 1 tsp vanilla extract
- Take 1 tsp almond extract
- Take 9 eggs
- Prepare 2 cups butter
- Take 2 1/2 cups flour
- Take 2 cups brown sugar
- Make ready 3 tsp baking powder
- Take 1/2 tsp ground nutmeg
- Get 1/2 tsp ground all spice
- Make ready 1/2 tsp ground clove
- Take 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
- Prepare Pinch salt
Beat in eggs, then add rum, lime juice, vanilla, almond extract, and lime zest. Stir in mixed fruit, wine, and molasses. Sift together flour, baking powder, nutmeg, allspice, cinnamon, and salt. Additional wine or rum can also be brushed onto the cake as needed to keep it moist.
Instructions to make Jamaican Christmas Cake:
- Preheat oven to 350 degree then grease and flour 2 round baking pans or which size pan u choose.
- In a blender add rum, wine, dates, raisins,cherries with their liquid, prunes, currants, chopped almond, orange juice and blend until all the fruits are chopped. Let sit for 1hr (2days is way better 😀)
- In a large bowl cream sugar and butter. Then add eggs mix well
- Add molasses, browning, blended fruit mixture, lime juice, vanilla, almond extract and stir
- Add flour, nutmeg, cloves, all spice, baking powder, cinnamon, salt, lime zest and stir. Do not over mix
- Pour the batter into your baking pans and bake for 1hr. You can put some cherries in the center of the batter if you wish. Stick a toothpick in the middle to ensure it's done. Tooth pick will come out clean if it's done. Enjoy!
Sift together flour, baking powder, nutmeg, allspice, cinnamon, and salt. Additional wine or rum can also be brushed onto the cake as needed to keep it moist. This fruit cake is a delicacy at Christmas time in Jamaica. No Christmas in Jamaica is the same without fruit cake and sorrel! Courtesy of international recipes.net, here's one of it's simplest recipe.
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