Hey everyone, it’s Drew, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, jamaican christmas cake. It is one of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Jamaican Christmas Cake is one of the most popular of current trending meals in the world. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. Jamaican Christmas Cake is something which I have loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.
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:
- Get 1 1/4 cup Jamaican white over proof rum
- Take 1 1/4 cup port wine or red label wine
- Take 1/2 cup raisins
- Make ready 1/2 cup currants
- Get 1/2 cup dates
- Take 1/2 cup dried prunes
- Get 1/2 cup maraschino cherries
- Make ready 1/2 cup chopped almonds
- Take 1 cup orange juice
- Prepare 1 grated zest from one lime
- Get 1 cup dark molasses
- Take 2 tbs browning
- Get 1 tbs lime juice
- Prepare 1 tsp vanilla extract
- Make ready 1 tsp almond extract
- Get 9 eggs
- Take 2 cups butter
- Make ready 2 1/2 cups flour
- Make ready 2 cups brown sugar
- Prepare 3 tsp baking powder
- Prepare 1/2 tsp ground nutmeg
- Get 1/2 tsp ground all spice
- Make ready 1/2 tsp ground clove
- Prepare 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
- Make ready Pinch salt
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!
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