Hello everybody, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, jamaican christmas cake. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
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.
Jamaican Christmas Cake is one of the most well liked of current trending foods on earth. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Jamaican Christmas Cake is something that I have loved my whole life.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to 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:
- Make ready 1 1/4 cup Jamaican white over proof rum
- Prepare 1 1/4 cup port wine or red label wine
- Prepare 1/2 cup raisins
- Take 1/2 cup currants
- Get 1/2 cup dates
- Take 1/2 cup dried prunes
- Prepare 1/2 cup maraschino cherries
- Make ready 1/2 cup chopped almonds
- Get 1 cup orange juice
- Prepare 1 grated zest from one lime
- Get 1 cup dark molasses
- Take 2 tbs browning
- Prepare 1 tbs lime juice
- Take 1 tsp vanilla extract
- Take 1 tsp almond extract
- Prepare 9 eggs
- Get 2 cups butter
- Take 2 1/2 cups flour
- Make ready 2 cups brown sugar
- Make ready 3 tsp baking powder
- Get 1/2 tsp ground nutmeg
- Take 1/2 tsp ground all spice
- Make ready 1/2 tsp ground clove
- Make ready 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
- Prepare Pinch salt
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 cake is a deliciously spiced, warming bake that is perfect for the colder months. Try this instead of your normal Christmas cake and you'll never look back.
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 š)
- 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!
But remember, the key is steeping the cake in plenty of rum during the run up to the festivities! 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. Jamaican Fruit Cake Recipe aka 'Jamaican Chrismus Cake' The preparation is certainly not as difficult as you might have initially thought.
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