Hey everyone, 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. This time, I will make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Jamaican Christmas Cake is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods on earth. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Jamaican Christmas Cake is something which I’ve loved my entire life.
To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook jamaican christmas cake using 25 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Jamaican Christmas Cake:
- Make ready 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
- Take 1/2 cup currants
- Make ready 1/2 cup dates
- Take 1/2 cup dried prunes
- Prepare 1/2 cup maraschino cherries
- Take 1/2 cup chopped almonds
- Make ready 1 cup orange juice
- Take 1 grated zest from one lime
- Prepare 1 cup dark molasses
- Get 2 tbs browning
- Make ready 1 tbs lime juice
- Prepare 1 tsp vanilla extract
- Make ready 1 tsp almond extract
- Take 9 eggs
- Prepare 2 cups butter
- Get 2 1/2 cups flour
- Prepare 2 cups brown sugar
- Take 3 tsp baking powder
- Take 1/2 tsp ground nutmeg
- Take 1/2 tsp ground all spice
- Get 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 😀)
- 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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