Recipe of Perfect Jamaican Christmas Cake

Hello everybody, welcome to my recipe site. Today I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, Jamaican Christmas Cake. This is one of my favourite food recipe, this time i’am gonna make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Jamaican Christmas Cake Recipe.

You can have Jamaican Christmas Cake using 25 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Jamaican Christmas Cake

1. Prepare 1 1/4 cup of Jamaican white over proof rum.
2. You need 1 1/4 cup of port wine or red label wine.
3. Prepare 1/2 cup of raisins.
4. You need 1/2 cup of currants.
5. Prepare 1/2 cup of dates.
6. Take 1/2 cup of dried prunes.
7. Make ready 1/2 cup of maraschino cherries.
8. Make ready 1/2 cup of chopped almonds.
9. Take 1 cup of orange juice.
10. You need 1 of grated zest from one lime.
11. You need 1 cup of dark molasses.
12. It’s 2 tbs of browning.
13. You need 1 tbs of lime juice.
14. Prepare 1 tsp of vanilla extract.
15. It’s 1 tsp of almond extract.
16. Make ready 9 of eggs.
17. Take 2 cups of butter.
18. You need 2 1/2 cups of flour.
19. Make ready 2 cups of brown sugar.
20. You need 3 tsp of baking powder.
21. Take 1/2 tsp of ground nutmeg.
22. Prepare 1/2 tsp of ground all spice.
23. Prepare 1/2 tsp of ground clove.
24. Prepare 1/2 tsp of ground cinnamon.
25. Make ready Pinch of salt.

Jamaican Christmas Cake step by step

1. Preheat oven to 350 degree then grease and flour 2 round baking pans or which size pan u choose..
2. 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 😀).
3. In a large bowl cream sugar and butter. Then add eggs mix well.
4. Add molasses, browning, blended fruit mixture, lime juice, vanilla, almond extract and stir.
5. Add flour, nutmeg, cloves, all spice, baking powder, cinnamon, salt, lime zest and stir. Do not over mix.
6. 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!.