Hey everyone, hope you’re 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. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
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. But remember, the key is steeping.
Jamaican Christmas Cake is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. They are nice and they look wonderful. Jamaican Christmas Cake is something which I’ve loved my entire life.
To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have jamaican christmas cake using 25 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Jamaican Christmas Cake:
- Get 1 1/4 cup Jamaican white over proof rum
- Get 1 1/4 cup port wine or red label wine
- Prepare 1/2 cup raisins
- Prepare 1/2 cup currants
- Make ready 1/2 cup dates
- Take 1/2 cup dried prunes
- Take 1/2 cup maraschino cherries
- Take 1/2 cup chopped almonds
- Get 1 cup orange juice
- Get 1 grated zest from one lime
- Prepare 1 cup dark molasses
- Take 2 tbs browning
- Prepare 1 tbs lime juice
- Make ready 1 tsp vanilla extract
- Take 1 tsp almond extract
- Make ready 9 eggs
- Get 2 cups butter
- Prepare 2 1/2 cups flour
- Make ready 2 cups brown sugar
- Take 3 tsp baking powder
- Get 1/2 tsp ground nutmeg
- Take 1/2 tsp ground all spice
- Make ready 1/2 tsp ground clove
- Prepare 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
- Make ready Pinch salt
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. You feel it in the air - the weather changes (it gets nicer), the blossoms and even the fresher, gentler breeze, Christmas is. Of the various Jamaican Christmas Cakes red wine and rum fruitcake is traditional and is eaten in most homes.
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 fruits like Raisins, currants and prunes in the cake are soaked in red wine and white. At CakeClicks.com find thousands of cakes categorized into thousands of categories. CHRISTMAS CAKE - (WEDDING CAKE TOO) Welcome to Jamaican Food / Christmas Cake Learn how to bake Jamaican food Christmas Cake. Is the most popular Jamaican food. The Traditional Jamaican Black Cake is preferred and baked by most Jamaicans during the Christmas season.
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