Hello everybody, it’s Brad, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, jamaican christmas cake. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Jamaican Christmas Cake is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods on earth. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. Jamaican Christmas Cake is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They are fine and they look fantastic.
Jamaican Christmas Cake - Recipe for Wedding Cake too http Rich Christmas Cake - Grace Foods Creative Cooking Christmas Series. Jamaican Christmas cake, which is also referred to as Jamaican black cake has long been the most popular Jamaican dessert in Jamaica. The Traditional Jamaican Black Cake is preferred and baked by most Jamaicans during the Christmas season. Jamaican Christmas Cake (a.k.a Jamaican Black Cake or Jamaican Fruit Cake).
To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have jamaican christmas cake using 25 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Jamaican Christmas Cake:
- Prepare 1 1/4 cup Jamaican white over proof rum
- Take 1 1/4 cup port wine or red label wine
- Get 1/2 cup raisins
- Prepare 1/2 cup currants
- Get 1/2 cup dates
- Prepare 1/2 cup dried prunes
- Take 1/2 cup maraschino cherries
- Take 1/2 cup chopped almonds
- Make ready 1 cup orange juice
- Get 1 grated zest from one lime
- Make ready 1 cup dark molasses
- Make ready 2 tbs browning
- Get 1 tbs lime juice
- Get 1 tsp vanilla extract
- Get 1 tsp almond extract
- Make ready 9 eggs
- Make ready 2 cups butter
- Take 2 1/2 cups flour
- Make ready 2 cups brown sugar
- Get 3 tsp baking powder
- Prepare 1/2 tsp ground nutmeg
- Take 1/2 tsp ground all spice
- Prepare 1/2 tsp ground clove
- Take 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
- Prepare Pinch salt
Puncture each cake several times with skewer. Mix remaining rum with port; pour over cakes. Jamaican Christmas cake basically uses the same method; the only difference is, it is steamed instead of baked. The pudding has a more moist texture than the cake.
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!
Jamaican Christmas cake basically uses the same method; the only difference is, it is steamed instead of baked. The pudding has a more moist texture than the cake. Of the various Jamaican Christmas Cakes red wine and rum fruitcake is traditional and is eaten in most homes. The fruits like Raisins, currants and prunes in the cake are soaked in red wine and white. CHRISTMAS CAKE - (WEDDING CAKE TOO) Welcome to Jamaican Food / Christmas Cake Learn how to bake Jamaican food Christmas Cake.
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