How To make Christmas Cake West Indian Style
***Fruit Mixture*** 1 cup raisins
1 cup currants
1/2 cup candied cherries
1/2 cup candied citrus peel
1 cup mixed dried fruit
1 cup rum
1 cup sweet sherry
or port wine ***Cake*** 1/2 pound butter
at room temperature
1/2 cup brown sugar
4 eggs
2 cups flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon ground ginger
1 teaspoon ground nutmeg
3 teaspoons ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon ground cloves
1/2 teaspoon ground allspice
2 1/2 teaspoons lemon essence
2 1/2 teaspoons almond essence
1 teaspoon vanilla essence
1/4 cup brown food coloring :
up to 1/2 cup
1/2 cup rum
Additional rum for basting during storage
Fruit Mixture: Mix together all the ingredients and store in a tightly sealed jar for at least 1 month
The Cake: Prepare a 10" deep round cake baking tin or a 13" x 9" baking tin by lining it with two layers of waxed paper, greasing between the layers. Preheat the oven to 250 degrees. In a large bowl, cream together the butter and sugar until they are light and fluffy. Add the eggs, one at a time, mixing well after each addition. Sift the flour, baking powder and all the dry spices together. Add the lemon essence, almond essence and vanilla essence to the fruit mixture. By hand, stir tablespoonsful of the flour mixture and the fruit mixture alternately into the butter, sugar and egg mixture. Add the browning gradually, stirring until a deepish brown colour is reached. Turn the cake mixture into the baking tin, smooth the top and bake in the oven for 3-4 hours or until a skewer or wooden toothpick, inserted, comes out clean. This can take an additional hour or two. Remove the cake from the oven, prick it all over with a skewer or toothpick and pour the rum all over it. Remove the cake from the tin when it is cool, wrap it tightly in waxed paper, place it in an airtight container and leave for a month for best flavour. Every week, prick the cake with a skewer and pour on about 1 tablespoon of rum. (Makes one 5 pound cake. )
Serve with Hard Rum Sauce.
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Christmas Fruit Cake, Black Cake, Rum Cake, Easy Recipe
This recipe of Christmas Fruit Cake is one of the simplest and by far the best I have tried.
This super moist and delicious cake is dense and pack with soaked flavorful fruits.
I promise you can't go wrong with this simple step by step recipe
Recipe in how to boil/soak fruits
**Ingredients tor blended fruits**
1 lb prunes, seeded and chopped
1lb raisins
1 lb currants
1/2 Ib cherries chopped
Any other fruits of your choice
1 bottle of rum
1 bottle of cherry brandy or wine
(Spices)
**Ingredients for cake **
2 cups or 1 lb butter
2 cups or 1 lb sugar
9 large eggs
2 tsp grated lime or lemon peel
2 tsp vanilla extract or 1 tbsp vanilla essence
1 tsp almond and rose water (optional)
1 1b or 4 cups flour (baking or all purpose) sifted
4 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
1-2 tsp mix spice
2 tsp ground cinnamon
2 tsp nutmeg
1/2 cup browning (less if you dont want cake to be too dark)
4-5 cups of soaked blended fruits
The day before or some days before baking, boil the fruits (prunes, raisins, currants, cherries) Link is provided
Line cake pans with 1 layer of wax paper.
Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
Break eggs into a bowl, add lime peel then pour into the batter gradually.
Add fruits to blender and lightly blend, then add to batter.
Add enough browning to give desired colour,
along with vanilla essence or extract
Combine flour, baking powder, cinnamon, salt, nutmeg, fold into creamed mixture gradually.
Add more rum to your desired taste.
Pour batter into lined baking pans and bake in a preheated oven at 200 degree celsius for 1 1/2 to 1 hour 45minutes or until toothpicks comes out clean.
Oven temperature varies so if you suspect suggested temperature may be too high…. Work with 350 degree farenheit… low and slow is always best.
(Place water pan at the bottom of the oven)
Prick hot cakes and soak with a mixture of rum and cherry brandy. (Any Alcohol You
Desire)
Cover and set aside to cool.
Soak overtime for a few days to keep moist.
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How To Make Jamaican Black Cake | A Caribbean Christmas Cake Recipe
In this video, I'm sharing a traditional recipe for Jamaican Black Cake, a delicious and indulgent dessert staple at Jamaica's holiday gatherings. This Caribbean fruit cake is made with a blend of dried fruit, spices, wine, and sometimes rum, and it's the perfect way to add a touch of Caribbean flavor to your holiday celebrations. You'll also find this cake at many Caribbean celebrations, like weddings.
This recipe needs some prep, such as soaking the dried fruit in wine for a few days...or even weeks/months. For full additional information, check out the link to the full blog post.
Ingredients Needed:
For the Fruit Blend
8 oz pitted dried prunes, about 1 ¼ cup
5 oz raisins, about 1 cup
5 oz golden raisins, about 1 cup
5 oz dried cherries, about 1 cup
2 ¾ cups sweet red dessert wine separated
For the Cake
1 cup all-purpose flour
1 cup plain breadcrumbs
1 Tablespoon baking powder
1 teaspoon cinnamon
¾ teaspoon nutmeg
¼ teaspoon allspice
¼ teaspoon salt
½ lb butter 2 sticks, softened
1 ¼ cups dark brown sugar
5 large eggs
1 Tablespoon lime juice and lime zest
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 teaspoon almond extract
Fruit bend mixture
2 Tablespoon browning
2 Tablespoons burnt sugar
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Time Stamps:
00:01 - Intro
00:31 - Soaking the fruits
01:43 - blend the fruit mixture
02:24 - prep the dry ingredients
05:00 - creaming the butter and sugar
10:34 - making it black
13:02 - baking the cake, removing the cake, and allowing it to cool
15:08 - the finished cake
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A Non Traditional Caribbean Christmas Rum/Fruit Cake | CaribbeanPot.com
Learn how to make a Black Rum Fruit Cake as it's done in the Caribbean, but not as your grandma would. This take on a traditional Caribbean Rum Black Cake is modified to fit someone who hates baking, new to baking or just don't have the time to soak the dried fruits in advance, but still want a slice of fruit cake during the holidays.
For this Black Rum Fruit Cake you'll Need...
2 boxed cake mix
1 cup rum
1 1/2 cup Port (or sherry - any fortified wine)
1 teaspoon nutmeg
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1 teaspoon ground ginger
1 orange (zest)
1 cup raisins
1 cup prunes
1 cup citrus peel
1 cup mixed fruit
1-2 tablespoon Caribbean Browning
1 1/2 tablespoon Vanilla
* more Port or Rum for soaking the finished cake
* whatever ingredients is mentioned on the box of the cake
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Jamaican Fruit cake | Christmas Cake| How to make Fruit cake
TIPS AND INGREDIENTS BELOW:
First of all, let me just say. The most important thing is flavour and that the baked cake is not too dry or too wet. I've probably had fruit cake of 20 different kinds of texture over the years in Jamaica.
I love Christmas cake and either a pudding texture or cake texture makes me happy as long as the flavour is amazing. THIS mixture will give you a more tender moist cakey crumby texture once cooled down. I will be posting another video with a more Puddingy???? texture in my dessert playlist. IT IS UP TO YOU TO PUREE YOUR FRUITS OR LEAVE THEM WHOLE.
For the soaked fruits:
The ratios of fruits are up to you however I often do:
4 cups raisins
3 cups prunes
2 cups currants
1 cup glace cherries
I place glace cherries, currants, raisins and chopped prunes in a glass container with ENOUGH white rum and red label wine TO COVER them (the liquid is maybe 1 inch or higher than the fruits) and let it sit in the sealed jar for one year. Other spices and flavorings can be added to the soak if desired)
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For the Cake:
This yields two eight inch cakes or 1 tall 9 inch cake. Please remember:
1.All of our ovens tend to run differently regardless of the set temperature so...use a skewer or toothpick into the cake at about the 1 hour and 20 or 35 minutes mark to check whether the cake is good or still too wet.
2. Bake the cake on the middle shelf of the oven. The top shelf may be too hot. Place a baking tray full of hot water on the SHELF BELOW to provide moisture while the cake bakes.
3.Spritz your cake daily or every other day with wine and/or rum.
4. Keep your cake covered properly to prevent drying out.
5. Keep your cake at room temperature. If you want to keep the cake for weeks then refrigerate BUT...sit out at room temperature when serving your guests. The longer any cake sits in the refrigerator the drier it gets so sitting it out of the fridge helps.
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✔Please wrap your cake properly in foil or plastic wrap or store in a sealable container at room temperature. The alcohol acts as a great preservative but for longer storage you may refrigerate the cake and let it sit at room temperature for awhile on the day you'd like to eat it.
✔You may use two 8 inch or two 9 inch cake tins
✔ If you don't have fruits soaked for a year, you have options:
1. Start soaking it now ???? or
2. Do stewed fruit which will be in my next fruit cake video later tonight or tomorrow
3. OR Just chop them finely add alcohol then puree it very smoothly without doing the soaking
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INGREDIENTS:
2 cups Unsalted butter (1 LB)
2 cups white sugar
1/2 cup SOFT brown sugar
6 LARGE eggs (use 8 for small eggs)
2 tsps grated lemon/lime zest
2 1/2 - 3 cups allpurpose flour (Sometimes I do 2 cups flour and 1 cup soft breadcrumbs)
1 1/2 tsp ground Cinnamon
1/2 tsp Ginger powder
1 1/2 tsp freshly ground nutmeg
1/2 tsp Coriander powder (It is an ingredient that is sometimes used in mixed spice)
1/2 tsp Ground allspice
1/4 tsp Ground cloves
3 tsps Baking powder
1 1/2 tsp salt
2 1/2 cups PUREED ALCOHOL SOAKED fruits
1 tbsp fancy mollasses
2 tbsps or more browning*
4 tbsps lemon juice
2 tbsps vanilla extract
1/4 tsp Almond essence
*Browning is a bottled burnt sugar/dark caramel sauce used in Caribbean Cooking to add a deep brown colour to creating food items.
Red label wine (add more to cake while warm and daily if desired)
White Rum (add more to cake while warm and daily if desired)
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