Hello everybody, it is John, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, jamaican christmas cake. One of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. 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 favored of recent trending meals in the world. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Jamaican Christmas Cake is something that I’ve loved my whole life.
To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have jamaican christmas cake using 25 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
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
- Prepare 1/2 cup raisins
- Take 1/2 cup currants
- Take 1/2 cup dates
- Take 1/2 cup dried prunes
- Get 1/2 cup maraschino cherries
- Prepare 1/2 cup chopped almonds
- Make ready 1 cup orange juice
- Make ready 1 grated zest from one lime
- Get 1 cup dark molasses
- Make ready 2 tbs browning
- Make ready 1 tbs lime juice
- Make ready 1 tsp vanilla extract
- Take 1 tsp almond extract
- Get 9 eggs
- Get 2 cups butter
- Make ready 2 1/2 cups flour
- Make ready 2 cups brown sugar
- Get 3 tsp baking powder
- Make ready 1/2 tsp ground nutmeg
- Get 1/2 tsp ground all spice
- Prepare 1/2 tsp ground clove
- Get 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
- Make ready 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 Christmas Cake - The History. According to Donaldson, our local Christmas Cake is actually a reworking over the centuries of the traditional English plum pudding.
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!
The dried fruit ingredients are put to soak for weeks and even months in advance of baking in December. 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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