Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, trinidad black fruit cake. It is one of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Trinidad black fruit cake is one of the most well liked of current trending meals on earth. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. They are nice and they look fantastic. Trinidad black fruit cake is something that I’ve loved my whole life.
Black cake is the ultimate Christmas cake in the Caribbean. Jamaican rum cake, Trinidad black cake, Barbados rum cake. Popularly known as "black cake" or sometimes also called fruit cake or rum cake.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook trinidad black fruit cake using 15 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Trinidad black fruit cake:
- Get For the fruits
- Prepare 2 cups dried raisins
- Take 1/4 cup cherries
- Make ready 1/4 cup orange peel
- Take 1 cup rum
- Take 1 cup sherry brandy
- Take For the sugar syrup
- Get 1/2 cup sugar
- Make ready 4 tablespoons water
- Make ready For the other ingredients
- Take 3 eggs n 1 teaspoon vanilla essence
- Get 2 cups flour
- Prepare 1 cup brown sugar
- Make ready 1 cup butter
- Make ready 1/2 tsp Spices of choice I used cinnamon,ginger,nutmeg I used
Note: If you have been macerating your. Be the first to review this recipe. The traditional Caribbean Christmas cake, aka euphoria! This heavy-duty rum fruit cake takes some time to make: with the minimum soaking time the recipe extends over two days, but I always take a month!
Instructions to make Trinidad black fruit cake:
- Put the rum,brandy,raisins and cherries,1 teaspoon cinnamon in a sufuria and bring to a boil let rest for 2 hours after they boil.they will soak up some liquid and become bigger
- Preheat your oven to 180 degrees.Now let's work on the syrup please be careful it can burn really bad.add the sugar to a pan let it brown n darken then add water.let it cool
- Lightly blend the fruits in the blender for 1 minute add the orange peel
- Cream the butter and sugar till light and fluffy
- Add one egg at a time and add the vanilla
- Then add 1/3 of the flour and half the fruits
- Then add 1/3 flour and the rest of the fruits fold in and the put the other flour.add the caramelized sugar and fold in
- Put the mixture in well greased and floured with parchment tins and bake for 1 hour at 180 degrees and 120 degrees Celsius for 20 minutes
- Serve when cooled
This is my absolute favorite cake for the Christmas holidays. I would always look forward to this season just to get a piece of this cake. Feel free to vary amounts and types of dried fruits and spices depending on availability and your preference. To ensure the darkness of this cake, be sure to use plenty of dark fruits, such as prunes and dark raisins. The day before cake is to be made, mince currants, raisins, pitted prunes, add finely cut mixed peel and the chopped maraschino cherries.
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