While traditionally it s a cake for christmas it is also paired with a white fondant for traditional wedding cakes as well.
Jamaican christmas cake ingredients.
Jamaican christmas cake recipe.
It has been a favored gift amongst jamaicans during the christmas season.
Add 2 3 cup of the brown sugar vanilla and almond extracts nutmeg cinnamon ginger allspice and cloves.
The dried fruit ingredients are put to soak for weeks and even months in advance of baking in december.
3 cups sugar brown 2 cups butter.
Jamaican fruit cake recipe jamaican christmas cake ingredients.
This dark and spongy cake is a labor of love that is rich in flavors from rum soaked fruits.
6 ounces or 1 5 cup flour.
Jamaican black cake is thought to be derived from the british figgy pudding but with an island twist.
Jamaican black cake or christmas pudding is a spiced cake made with a combination of raisins cherries prunes and other fruits.
According to donaldson our local christmas cake is actually a reworking over the centuries of the traditional english plum pudding.
Cream butter and sugar.
Add to the creamed butter and sugar.
Directions one day ahead in microwaveable bowl combine raisins currants peel walnuts prunes and cherries.
Stir in 1 2 cup of the rum.
Jamaican christmas cake the history.