Simple Way to Make Award-winning Jamaican Christmas Cake

Hey everyone, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, jamaican christmas cake. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Jamaican Christmas Cake is one of the most popular of recent trending meals in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. Jamaican Christmas Cake is something which I have loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.

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

Steps 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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