Hey everyone, it is me, Dave, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, trinidad black fruit cake. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
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.
Trinidad black fruit cake is one of the most favored of recent trending foods on earth. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It is enjoyed by millions every day. Trinidad black fruit cake is something that I have loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.
To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook trinidad black fruit cake using 15 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Trinidad black fruit cake:
- Make ready For the fruits
- Get 2 cups dried raisins
- Prepare 1/4 cup cherries
- Get 1/4 cup orange peel
- Take 1 cup rum
- Prepare 1 cup sherry brandy
- Prepare For the sugar syrup
- Take 1/2 cup sugar
- Prepare 4 tablespoons water
- Get For the other ingredients
- Make ready 3 eggs n 1 teaspoon vanilla essence
- Make ready 2 cups flour
- Prepare 1 cup brown sugar
- Get 1 cup butter
- Get 1/2 tsp Spices of choice I used cinnamon,ginger,nutmeg I used
Chop all the fruits and place in a large bowl. Pour cherry brandy and rum and leave in a cool corner, covered, so that it can soak up the alcohol. 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.
Steps 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. Trinidad black cake uses two uniquely West Indian ingredients: mixed essence—a perfumed combination of vanilla, almond, and pear extracts—and burnt sugar syrup, a dark, rich caramel concoction without which black cake is just an everyday fruit cake. 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!
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