Hello everybody, it is me again, Dan, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, jamaican christmas cake. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Jamaican Christmas Cake is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals in the world. It is appreciated by millions daily. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Jamaican Christmas Cake is something that I have loved my entire life.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. 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
- Prepare 1 1/4 cup port wine or red label wine
- Get 1/2 cup raisins
- Prepare 1/2 cup currants
- Make ready 1/2 cup dates
- Get 1/2 cup dried prunes
- Prepare 1/2 cup maraschino cherries
- Get 1/2 cup chopped almonds
- Get 1 cup orange juice
- Make ready 1 grated zest from one lime
- Make ready 1 cup dark molasses
- Get 2 tbs browning
- Make ready 1 tbs lime juice
- Prepare 1 tsp vanilla extract
- Get 1 tsp almond extract
- Prepare 9 eggs
- Take 2 cups butter
- Make ready 2 1/2 cups flour
- Take 2 cups brown sugar
- Make ready 3 tsp baking powder
- Prepare 1/2 tsp ground nutmeg
- Make ready 1/2 tsp ground all spice
- Take 1/2 tsp ground clove
- Take 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
- Get 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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