Jamaican Christmas Cake

Steps Making Recipes Jamaican Christmas Cake using 25 ingredients and 6 steps

Jamaican Christmas Cake -

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

Ingredients cook Jamaican Christmas Cake

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

Jamaican Christmas Cake instructions

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!.

Jamaican Christmas Cake - Thank you and good luck