Hello everybody, it is John, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, jamaican christmas cake. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Jamaican Christmas Cake is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions every day. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Jamaican Christmas Cake is something that I have loved my whole life.
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.
To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook jamaican christmas cake using 25 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Jamaican Christmas Cake:
- Take 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
- Get 1/2 cup currants
- Make ready 1/2 cup dates
- Take 1/2 cup dried prunes
- Make ready 1/2 cup maraschino cherries
- Get 1/2 cup chopped almonds
- Get 1 cup orange juice
- Take 1 grated zest from one lime
- Get 1 cup dark molasses
- Get 2 tbs browning
- Make ready 1 tbs lime juice
- Make ready 1 tsp vanilla extract
- Make ready 1 tsp almond extract
- Get 9 eggs
- Make ready 2 cups butter
- Prepare 2 1/2 cups flour
- Make ready 2 cups brown sugar
- Prepare 3 tsp baking powder
- Take 1/2 tsp ground nutmeg
- Prepare 1/2 tsp ground all spice
- Prepare 1/2 tsp ground clove
- Get 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
- Take 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. A spiced Jamaican black cake for Christmas, aged in rum & memory Recreating my mother's recipe in a new home. Jamaican Christmas Cake - The History.
Steps 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!
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. In fact, not only is it super easy, it is quite simple as well - though it uses all the traditional Jamaican ingredients. Store and stew prunes with sugar to taste, then chop fine.
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