Hello everybody, it is Drew, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, jamaican christmas cake. It is one of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
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Jamaican Christmas Cake is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. 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 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 can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Jamaican Christmas Cake:
- Take 1 1/4 cup Jamaican white over proof rum
- Make ready 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
- Prepare 1/2 cup dried prunes
- Make ready 1/2 cup maraschino cherries
- Take 1/2 cup chopped almonds
- Make ready 1 cup orange juice
- Take 1 grated zest from one lime
- Prepare 1 cup dark molasses
- Make ready 2 tbs browning
- Prepare 1 tbs lime juice
- Prepare 1 tsp vanilla extract
- Make ready 1 tsp almond extract
- Take 9 eggs
- Prepare 2 cups butter
- Prepare 2 1/2 cups flour
- Make ready 2 cups brown sugar
- Prepare 3 tsp baking powder
- Prepare 1/2 tsp ground nutmeg
- Prepare 1/2 tsp ground all spice
- Prepare 1/2 tsp ground clove
- Make ready 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
- Make ready Pinch salt
It has been a favored gift amongst Jamaicans during the Christmas season. 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. Production of the cake begins almost a full year in advance.
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!
It is very popular during Christmas time and is most often served with sorrel. Production of the cake begins almost a full year in advance. Cherries, currants, prunes, raisins and orange peels are soaked in rum and wine for three to six months in airtight jars to make the fruit sufficiently saturated for the cake. Cinnamon, nutmeg, a bay leaf and other spices are added to sifted flour to make the cake batter. 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.
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