Hey everyone, it is Drew, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, jamaican christmas cake. One of my favorites. This time, I will make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Jamaican Christmas Cake is only one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Jamaican Christmas Cake is something that I’ve loved my entire life.
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To begin with this recipe, we must 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:
- Take 1 1/4 cup Jamaican white over proof rum
- Prepare 1 1/4 cup port wine or red label wine
- Make ready 1/2 cup raisins
- Take 1/2 cup currants
- Make ready 1/2 cup dates
- Take 1/2 cup dried prunes
- Take 1/2 cup maraschino cherries
- Prepare 1/2 cup chopped almonds
- Take 1 cup orange juice
- Prepare 1 grated zest from one lime
- Prepare 1 cup dark molasses
- Take 2 tbs browning
- Prepare 1 tbs lime juice
- Prepare 1 tsp vanilla extract
- Make ready 1 tsp almond extract
- Take 9 eggs
- Prepare 2 cups butter
- Make ready 2 1/2 cups flour
- Make ready 2 cups brown sugar
- Take 3 tsp baking powder
- Get 1/2 tsp ground nutmeg
- Make ready 1/2 tsp ground all spice
- Make ready 1/2 tsp ground clove
- Make ready 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
- Prepare Pinch salt
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. Jamaican Fruit Cake Recipe aka 'Jamaican Chrismus Cake' The preparation is certainly not as difficult as you might have initially thought.
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!
In fact, not only is it super easy, it is quite simple as well - though it uses all the traditional Jamaican ingredients. This is the very first one I made myself and was very pleased with it! If the cake dries out, just pour more rum over the top. Preparation/cooking time does not include standing time or the alternative method of preparation. Store and stew prunes with sugar to taste, then chop fine.
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