Hey everyone, it is Jim, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, jamaican christmas cake. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Jamaican Christmas Cake is one of the most favored of current trending foods in the world. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It is enjoyed by millions daily. Jamaican Christmas Cake is something which I have loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.
To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook 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
- Take 1/2 cup raisins
- Get 1/2 cup currants
- Make ready 1/2 cup dates
- Get 1/2 cup dried prunes
- Make ready 1/2 cup maraschino cherries
- Prepare 1/2 cup chopped almonds
- Get 1 cup orange juice
- Get 1 grated zest from one lime
- Get 1 cup dark molasses
- Take 2 tbs browning
- Take 1 tbs lime juice
- Take 1 tsp vanilla extract
- Take 1 tsp almond extract
- Prepare 9 eggs
- Get 2 cups butter
- Get 2 1/2 cups flour
- Get 2 cups brown sugar
- Make ready 3 tsp baking powder
- Take 1/2 tsp ground nutmeg
- Get 1/2 tsp ground all spice
- Get 1/2 tsp ground clove
- Get 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 😀)
- 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!
So that’s going to wrap it up with this exceptional food jamaican christmas cake recipe. Thank you very much for your time. I am sure that you can make this at home. There’s gonna be interesting food at home recipes coming up. Remember to save this page in your browser, and share it to your family, friends and colleague. Thank you for reading. Go on get cooking!
