Hey everyone, it’s Jim, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, jamaican christmas cake. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Jamaican Christmas Cake is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. They are fine and they look fantastic. Jamaican Christmas Cake is something which I have loved my entire life.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have jamaican christmas cake using 25 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
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
- Make ready 1/2 cup raisins
- Prepare 1/2 cup currants
- Prepare 1/2 cup dates
- Prepare 1/2 cup dried prunes
- Take 1/2 cup maraschino cherries
- Take 1/2 cup chopped almonds
- Prepare 1 cup orange juice
- Get 1 grated zest from one lime
- Make ready 1 cup dark molasses
- Take 2 tbs browning
- Take 1 tbs lime juice
- Make ready 1 tsp vanilla extract
- Prepare 1 tsp almond extract
- Make ready 9 eggs
- Take 2 cups butter
- Get 2 1/2 cups flour
- Make ready 2 cups brown sugar
- Make ready 3 tsp baking powder
- Prepare 1/2 tsp ground nutmeg
- Get 1/2 tsp ground all spice
- Take 1/2 tsp ground clove
- Make ready 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 ๐)
- 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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