Hey everyone, it is Jim, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, jamaican christmas cake. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Choose from the world's largest selection of audiobooks. Hootyballoo are The Go-To Brand for Trend Lead Party Must Haves & Unique Products. 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.
Jamaican Christmas Cake is one of the most popular of recent trending foods in the world. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. Jamaican Christmas Cake is something which I have loved my entire life. They are fine and they look fantastic.
To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have jamaican christmas cake using 25 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Jamaican Christmas Cake:
- Prepare 1 1/4 cup Jamaican white over proof rum
- Take 1 1/4 cup port wine or red label wine
- Prepare 1/2 cup raisins
- Prepare 1/2 cup currants
- Get 1/2 cup dates
- Make ready 1/2 cup dried prunes
- Make ready 1/2 cup maraschino cherries
- Make ready 1/2 cup chopped almonds
- Get 1 cup orange juice
- Make ready 1 grated zest from one lime
- Make ready 1 cup dark molasses
- Get 2 tbs browning
- Make ready 1 tbs lime juice
- Make ready 1 tsp vanilla extract
- Take 1 tsp almond extract
- Take 9 eggs
- Get 2 cups butter
- Prepare 2 1/2 cups flour
- Take 2 cups brown sugar
- Prepare 3 tsp baking powder
- Take 1/2 tsp ground nutmeg
- Get 1/2 tsp ground all spice
- Make ready 1/2 tsp ground clove
- Get 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
- Take Pinch salt
Click Here For Recipe A Jamaican Christmas celebration is not complete without traditional Jamaican Christmas Fruit cake. It has been a favored gift amongst Jamaicans during the Christmas season. This dark and spongy cake is a labor of love that is rich in flavors from rum soaked fruits. It is very popular during Christmas time and is most often served with sorrel.
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!
This dark and spongy cake is a labor of love that is rich in flavors from rum soaked fruits. It is very popular during Christmas time and is most often served with sorrel. Jamaican Christmas Cake - The History According to Donaldson, our local Christmas Cake is actually a reworking over the centuries of the traditional English plum pudding. The dried fruit ingredients are put to soak for weeks and even months in advance of baking in December. Pour batter into a well greased and heavily lined baking tin or cake basin.
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