Jamaican Christmas Fruit Cake Recipe
Servings: 16
Ingredients
- Ingredients for 9″ round cake:
- 225 g butter (8 oz)
- 225 g sugar (8 oz)
- 2 tbsp browning or caramelized sugar
- 180 g or 1.5 cup flour (6 oz)
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp mixed spice
- 1 tsp vanilla
- finely grated rind of 1 lime/lemon
- 4 eggs
- 1 cup wine
- 1/2 kg raisins (1 lb)
- 120 g mixed peel (4 oz)
- 120 g cherries (4 oz)
- 250 g prunes (0.5 lb), chopped
Instructions
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Soak fruits in wine for at least 3 weeks, or boil them in the wine.
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Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour round cake pan.
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Cream butter, sugar and browning.
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Beat eggs and wine together. Add egg mixture to creamed butter mixture and blend well.
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Strain and add fruits. Gradually mix dry ingredients to batter and fold together.
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Bake for 1 1/2 hours.