Hey everyone, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, jamaican christmas cake. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a 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 is fast, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions daily. Jamaican Christmas Cake is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They are fine and they look fantastic.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first 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:
- Take 1 1/4 cup Jamaican white over proof rum
- Prepare 1 1/4 cup port wine or red label wine
- Take 1/2 cup raisins
- Get 1/2 cup currants
- Get 1/2 cup dates
- Prepare 1/2 cup dried prunes
- Get 1/2 cup maraschino cherries
- Get 1/2 cup chopped almonds
- Get 1 cup orange juice
- Get 1 grated zest from one lime
- Take 1 cup dark molasses
- Make ready 2 tbs browning
- Prepare 1 tbs lime juice
- Take 1 tsp vanilla extract
- Get 1 tsp almond extract
- Take 9 eggs
- Prepare 2 cups butter
- Take 2 1/2 cups flour
- Get 2 cups brown sugar
- Get 3 tsp baking powder
- Prepare 1/2 tsp ground nutmeg
- Get 1/2 tsp ground all spice
- Prepare 1/2 tsp ground clove
- Take 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
- Prepare Pinch salt
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 š)
- 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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