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Black Cake Jamaican Fruitcake Recipe


Black Cake Jamaican Fruitcake Recipe
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This makes 2 cakes. I love this cake. It is always a big hit!

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Ingredients
  • 1 pound raisins; minced
  • 1 pound prunes, pitted; minced
  • 1 pound currants, dried; minced
  • 1 pound cherries, glace; minced
  • 6 ounces lemon peel, glace; minced
  • 6 ounces orange peel, glace; minced
  • 3/4 liter Passover wine
  • 3/4 liter rum, dark
  • 2 pounds sugar, dark brown
  • 4 1/4 cups cake flour
  • 4 teaspoons baking powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg, grated
  • 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
  • 2 cups butter, sweet; softened
  • 10 large eggs
  • 1 tablespoon vanilla
  • 1 1/2 cup almond paste; if desired

Directions
  1. In a heavy skillet combine one pound of the brown sugar and 1 cup water.
  2. Bring to a boil over moderate heat, stirring until the sugar is dissolved, and gently boil the syrup, swirling the skillet occasionally, for a few minutes, or until it is reduced to 1-3/4 cups.
  3. Let the syrup cool; reserve.
  4. Sift the flour, baking powder, cinnamon and nutmeg together into a bowl.
  5. In the large bowl of an electric mixer cream together the remaining brown sugar and the butter until it is fluffy; then beat in the eggs, one at a time,beating well after each addition.
  6. Beat in the vanilla, the flour mixture, and 1-1/3 cups of the burnt sugar syrup, reserving the remaining syrup for another use.
  7. In another large bowl, combine well the flour mixture and the fruit mixture and divide the batter between two buttered and floured 10" springform pans.
  8. Bake the cakes in the middle of a preheated 350F. oven for two hours, or until a tooth pick inserted in the centers comes out with some crumbs adhering to it.
  9. (The centers of these cakes will be quite moist.)
  10. Let the cakes cool in the pans on a rack, remove the sides and bottoms of the pans,and wrap the cakes in foil or wax paper. Let the cakes stand at room temperature for a week.
  11. Roll out half the almond paste between sheets of plastic wrap to form a 10" round and remove the top sheet of plastic wrap. Fit the almond paste layer over one cake,trimming the edge if necessary, and remove the other sheet of plastic wrap. Roll out
  12. and fit the remaining almond paste onto the remaining cake in the same manner.
  13. Poster's Notes: This cake may be iced.

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Comments


Hello....
This a remarkable sounding cake !
I will be sure to try it...
Thanks...mjcmcook....


Am I correct in saying that this is similar to a fruit cake? Love fruit cake..one of the few..


That looks like it might be the best fruit cake ever. Rum AND Wine!!


Sounds good thanks momo


This will go over great here on the island!


That was unique my friend..


Wow, I am kind of speechless.


I'm an oddball and love fruitcake. I love the idea of having the almond paste. I'll have to try this recipe.


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