Hey everyone, it is John, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, jamaican christmas cake. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Jamaican Christmas Cake is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods in the world. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. Jamaican Christmas Cake is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.
To get started with this recipe, we have to 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:
- Take Jamaican white over proof rum
- Prepare port wine or red label wine
- Take raisins
- Prepare currants
- Get dates
- Take dried prunes
- Prepare maraschino cherries
- Make ready chopped almonds
- Take orange juice
- Make ready grated zest from one lime
- Make ready dark molasses
- Get browning
- Make ready lime juice
- Make ready vanilla extract
- Take almond extract
- Take eggs
- Make ready butter
- Get flour
- Take brown sugar
- Prepare baking powder
- Make ready ground nutmeg
- Prepare ground all spice
- Prepare ground clove
- Get ground cinnamon
- Prepare 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 😀)
- 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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