Hey everyone, it is Louise, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, trinidad black fruit cake. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
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Trinidad black fruit cake is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals on earth. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions daily. Trinidad black fruit cake is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have 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
- Make ready 1/4 cup cherries
- Take 1/4 cup orange peel
- Take 1 cup rum
- Take 1 cup sherry brandy
- Get For the sugar syrup
- Prepare 1/2 cup sugar
- Prepare 4 tablespoons water
- Prepare For the other ingredients
- Get 3 eggs n 1 teaspoon vanilla essence
- Prepare 2 cups flour
- Get 1 cup brown sugar
- Take 1 cup butter
- Make ready 1/2 tsp Spices of choice I used cinnamon,ginger,nutmeg I used
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. Like sorrel , Black Cake in Trinidad is a Christmas institution. Made predominantly of alcohol drenched prunes, currants and raisins, variations abound (and I love taste testing when we make the visiting rounds).
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
Like sorrel , Black Cake in Trinidad is a Christmas institution. Made predominantly of alcohol drenched prunes, currants and raisins, variations abound (and I love taste testing when we make the visiting rounds). Still, the best black cake is always the recipe that one grew up with. 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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