Hello everybody, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, jamaican christmas cake. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Jamaican Christmas Cake is one of the most popular of current trending meals in the world. It is appreciated by millions daily. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. They are nice and they look wonderful. Jamaican Christmas Cake is something that I’ve loved my entire life.
To get started 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 cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Jamaican Christmas Cake:
- Make ready 1 1/4 cup Jamaican white over proof rum
- Make ready 1 1/4 cup port wine or red label wine
- Get 1/2 cup raisins
- Take 1/2 cup currants
- Get 1/2 cup dates
- Take 1/2 cup dried prunes
- Get 1/2 cup maraschino cherries
- Prepare 1/2 cup chopped almonds
- Take 1 cup orange juice
- Make ready 1 grated zest from one lime
- Prepare 1 cup dark molasses
- Get 2 tbs browning
- Prepare 1 tbs lime juice
- Get 1 tsp vanilla extract
- Make ready 1 tsp almond extract
- Get 9 eggs
- Prepare 2 cups butter
- Take 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
- Make ready 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
- Make ready Pinch salt
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!
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