Christmas Jamaican Fruit Cake

While traditionally it s a cake for christmas it is also paired with a white fondant for traditional wedding cakes as well.

Christmas jamaican fruit cake.

A dark rich fruit cake for wine and fruit lovers. This is a recipe i use at christmas and for birthdays. It has been a favored gift amongst jamaicans during the christmas season. It is very popular during christmas time and is most often served with sorrel.

This recipe is for two 9 inch cakes. Real jamaica fruit cake cake black cake christmas subscribe to chef ricardo cooking http bit ly sub2chefricardocooking turn on notifications subscri. The traditional jamaican black cake is preferred and baked by most jamaicans during the christmas season. It is soaked for as little as a few days to years usually the latter is the norm.

This fruit cake is usually made by soaking dried fruits in alcohol. For the best mouthwatering jamaican black fruit cake fruits should be soaked in red. This fruit cake is a delicacy at christmas time in jamaica. Jamaican black cake or christmas pudding is a spiced cake made with a combination of raisins cherries prunes and other fruits.

It takes a little effort but the outcome is delicious and gratifying. A jamaican christmas celebration is not complete without traditional jamaican christmas fruit cake. This dark and spongy cake is a labor of love that is rich in flavors from rum soaked fruits. I prefer to use jamaican red label wine and white rum.

As with cooking every jamaican has a slightly different recipe which still turns out great. It is the cake of choice for weddings parties or any formal occasion in jamaica.