Jamaican Christmas Cake.
You can Have Jamaican Christmas Cake using 25 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you achieve it.
Ingredients of Jamaican Christmas Cake
- What You needis 1 1/4 cup of Jamaican white over proof rum.
- Lets Go Prepare 1 1/4 cup of port wine or red label wine.
- It's 1/2 cup of raisins.
- It's 1/2 cup of currants.
- What You needis 1/2 cup of dates.
- Lets Go Prepare 1/2 cup of dried prunes.
- It's 1/2 cup of maraschino cherries.
- It's 1/2 cup of chopped almonds.
- Lets Go Prepare 1 cup of orange juice.
- Lets Go Prepare 1 of grated zest from one lime.
- What You needis 1 cup of dark molasses.
- Lets Go Prepare 2 tbs of browning.
- Lets Go Prepare 1 tbs of lime juice.
- What You needis 1 tsp of vanilla extract.
- It's 1 tsp of almond extract.
- Lets Go Prepare 9 of eggs.
- What You needis 2 cups of butter.
- Lets Go Prepare 2 1/2 cups of flour.
- What You needis 2 cups of brown sugar.
- What You needis 3 tsp of baking powder.
- What You needis 1/2 tsp of ground nutmeg.
- It's 1/2 tsp of ground all spice.
- It's 1/2 tsp of ground clove.
- Lets Go Prepare 1/2 tsp of ground cinnamon.
- What You needis Pinch of salt.
Jamaican Christmas Cake instructions
- 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!.