Steps to Make Favorite Jamaican Christmas Cake

Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, jamaican christmas cake. 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 favored of recent trending foods on earth. It is appreciated by millions every day. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. Jamaican Christmas Cake is something that I have loved my entire life. They are nice and they look fantastic.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. 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:

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

Instructions to make Jamaican Christmas Cake:

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!

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