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)
My other fruit cake video:
• Jamaican Christmas Cak...