1 lb Jamaican Christmas Cake Recipe
Let’s Dive into 1 lb Jamaican Christmas Cake Recipe
Ingredients:
- Vanilla extract- 1 teaspoon
- Almond extract- 1 tablespoon
- Ground nutmeg- ½ teaspoon
- Butter- 2 cups
- White sugar- 2 cups
- Eggs- 9 large
- White rum (Optional)- ¼ cup
- Baking powder- 3 teaspoons
- Dark molasses- 1 cup
- All-purpose flour- 2 ½ cups
- Ground allspice- ½ teaspoon
- Lime juice- 1 tablespoon
- Zest of one lime- 1 grated
- Chopped dried mixed fruit- 2 pounds
- Ground cinnamon- ½ teaspoon
- Salt- 1 pinch
- Red wine- 2 cups
Directions:
- Heat the overn to 350°F (175°C). You’ll need two 9-inch round cake pans. Grease them and place parchment paper in them.
- Using an electric mixer, beat butter and sugar together until they are light and fluffy
- Beat the eggs with the rum, lime juice, almond extract, vanilla and lime zest in a large bowl. Then add this in the bowl of a stand mixer in the mixture of butter and sugar.
- Adding the dried fruit, wine, and molasses will make it taste even better.
- In a large mixing bowl, combine flour, baking powder, nutmeg, allspice, cinnamon, and salt; mix gently. Pour the batter evenly into the prepared pans.
- After 80 to 90 minutes of baking in the preheated oven, insert a toothpick and it should come out clean. After cooling for 10 minutes in the pan, turn it out onto a wire rack to finish cooling.
