Trinidad black fruit cake
Trinidad black fruit cake

Hey everyone, it is Brad, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going 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 unique. This will be really delicious.

Remove the cinnamon stick and star anise from the soaked fruit mixture. Transfer to a food processor, add the candied citrus peel, and pulse into a chunky paste. Like sorrel, Black Cake in Trinidad is a Christmas institution.

Trinidad black fruit cake is one of the most popular of recent trending foods in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. 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 must first 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:
  1. Get For the fruits
  2. Make ready 2 cups dried raisins
  3. Prepare 1/4 cup cherries
  4. Make ready 1/4 cup orange peel
  5. Prepare 1 cup rum
  6. Take 1 cup sherry brandy
  7. Take For the sugar syrup
  8. Get 1/2 cup sugar
  9. Get 4 tablespoons water
  10. Make ready For the other ingredients
  11. Take 3 eggs n 1 teaspoon vanilla essence
  12. Prepare 2 cups flour
  13. Get 1 cup brown sugar
  14. Take 1 cup butter
  15. Prepare 1/2 tsp Spices of choice I used cinnamon,ginger,nutmeg I used

The reference to black cake is because of the color. 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. This is my absolute favorite cake for the Christmas holidays.

Steps to make Trinidad black fruit cake:
  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. Lightly blend the fruits in the blender for 1 minute add the orange peel
  4. Cream the butter and sugar till light and fluffy
  5. Add one egg at a time and add the vanilla
  6. Then add 1/3 of the flour and half the fruits
  7. 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
  8. 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
  9. Serve when cooled

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. 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!

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