Hey everyone, it is Drew, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, jamaican christmas cake. One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Jamaican Christmas Cake is one of the most well liked of current trending meals on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. They are nice and they look fantastic. Jamaican Christmas Cake is something which I have loved my whole life.
To get started with this recipe, we must first 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:
- Get 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
- Get 1/2 cup currants
- Get 1/2 cup dates
- Make ready 1/2 cup dried prunes
- Make ready 1/2 cup maraschino cherries
- Prepare 1/2 cup chopped almonds
- Take 1 cup orange juice
- Prepare 1 grated zest from one lime
- Take 1 cup dark molasses
- Make ready 2 tbs browning
- Make ready 1 tbs lime juice
- Make ready 1 tsp vanilla extract
- Take 1 tsp almond extract
- Make ready 9 eggs
- Get 2 cups butter
- Take 2 1/2 cups flour
- Get 2 cups brown sugar
- Get 3 tsp baking powder
- Make ready 1/2 tsp ground nutmeg
- Make ready 1/2 tsp ground all spice
- Take 1/2 tsp ground clove
- Make ready 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
- Take Pinch salt
Instructions 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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