Jamaican Black Cake Recipe With Rum

Grease 2 cake pans and line them with brown or wax paper.

Jamaican black cake recipe with rum.

It smells like christmas is in the air. Adapted from the naparima girls high school cookbook. 4 hours plus 2 days marinading 1 pound prunes 1 pound dark raisins 1 2 pound golden raisins 1 pound currants 1 1 2 pounds dried cherries or 1 pound dried cherries plus 1 2 pound glacé cherries. Simple jamaican rum punch recipe.

Prunes currants raisins and glaced cherries are chopped finely then soaked in red wine and dark rum for months and years on end. Put all the nuts in a jar with a closing lid and pour in the rum and wine sufficient enough to cover the fruits. Leave them for a day s time so that the liquor is well soaked. For preparing the cake batter combine the baking flour baking powder along with cinnamon and mixed spice.

Allow it to soak in the rum for at least 2 hours 30 minutes but preferably for 2 to 3 days. When baking my home is fragranced with the cake s citrusy notes. Sprinkle some salt in it and combine them well together. Salted butter rum oil large eggs yellow cake mix water rum and 3 more rum cake bake or break rum instant vanilla pudding cold water granulated sugar unsalted butter and 6 more.