Step-by-Step Guide to Make Perfect Jamaican Christmas Cake

Hello everybody, it’s Jim, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, jamaican christmas cake. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Jamaican Christmas Cake is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals on earth. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. They are fine and they look wonderful. Jamaican Christmas Cake is something which I’ve loved my entire life.

To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook jamaican christmas cake using 25 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Jamaican Christmas Cake:

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