Hello everybody, it’s me, Dave, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, jamaican christmas cake. It is one of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Jamaican Christmas Cake is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions daily. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Jamaican Christmas Cake is something that I’ve loved my entire life.
To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have jamaican christmas cake using 25 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Jamaican Christmas Cake:
- Prepare 1 1/4 cup Jamaican white over proof rum
- Make ready 1 1/4 cup port wine or red label wine
- Make ready 1/2 cup raisins
- Take 1/2 cup currants
- Make ready 1/2 cup dates
- Make ready 1/2 cup dried prunes
- Take 1/2 cup maraschino cherries
- Make ready 1/2 cup chopped almonds
- Take 1 cup orange juice
- Make ready 1 grated zest from one lime
- Take 1 cup dark molasses
- Make ready 2 tbs browning
- Prepare 1 tbs lime juice
- Take 1 tsp vanilla extract
- Get 1 tsp almond extract
- Get 9 eggs
- Make ready 2 cups butter
- Get 2 1/2 cups flour
- Prepare 2 cups brown sugar
- Make ready 3 tsp baking powder
- Take 1/2 tsp ground nutmeg
- Get 1/2 tsp ground all spice
- Make ready 1/2 tsp ground clove
- Take 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
- Take 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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