Hello everybody, I hope you are having an incredible day today. 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 bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Jamaican Christmas Cake is one of the most popular of current trending meals in the world. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Jamaican Christmas Cake is something that I’ve loved my whole life.
To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook 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
- Make ready 1 1/4 cup port wine or red label wine
- Prepare 1/2 cup raisins
- Make ready 1/2 cup currants
- Prepare 1/2 cup dates
- Make ready 1/2 cup dried prunes
- Make ready 1/2 cup maraschino cherries
- Take 1/2 cup chopped almonds
- Prepare 1 cup orange juice
- Make ready 1 grated zest from one lime
- Take 1 cup dark molasses
- Prepare 2 tbs browning
- Make ready 1 tbs lime juice
- Get 1 tsp vanilla extract
- Get 1 tsp almond extract
- Prepare 9 eggs
- Prepare 2 cups butter
- Prepare 2 1/2 cups flour
- Get 2 cups brown sugar
- Take 3 tsp baking powder
- Prepare 1/2 tsp ground nutmeg
- Make ready 1/2 tsp ground all spice
- Make ready 1/2 tsp ground clove
- Prepare 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 π)
- 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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