Jamaican Cake Recipes

Steps:

• Mix together sugar, vegetable oil, pecans, flour, and bananas in a 13 x 9 inch pan. Stir in the eggs, pineapple (with juice), vanilla, salt and baking soda. Mix well. Do not mash the bananas.
• Bake in a preheated 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) oven for 60 minutes or until cake tests done.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F
• Sift together and set aside the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt.
• Cream butter and sugar until it is light and fluffy. Stir in vanilla and eggs, mix well.
• Add the lime zest and rum. Stir well to combine.
• Gradually add the dry ingredients, alternating with the heavy cream and ending with the dry ingredients. Mix between additions until well combined.
• Grease a bundt cake pan with some butter. Pour batter into the pan and bake for approximately an hour or until a toothpick inserted into the cake comes out clean.
• Carefully turn out and cool on a wire rack. Dust with some powdered sugar if desired. You can also sprinkle on some more rum too. Slice and serve when cool.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour 2 - 9 inch round cake pans.
• In a large bowl, cream together the butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in eggs, then add rum, lime juice, vanilla, almond extract, and lime zest. Stir in mixed fruit, wine, and molasses. Sift together flour, baking powder, nutmeg, allspice, cinnamon, and salt. Fold into batter, being careful not to over-mix. Pour into prepared pans.
• Bake in preheated oven for 80 to 90 minutes, or until a knife inserted into the center comes out clean. Let cool in pan for 10 minutes, then turn out onto a wire rack and cool completely.

Steps:

• Melt butter, set aside for a minute, meanwhile add water to sugar to form a syrup,only add enough water to saturate the sugar.
• Combine all the dry ingriedients with a wooden spoon, making a well in the middle add syrup and butter and slowly fold together to form a dough.
• Flour a board and knead for 5 mins, roll out into 1/8 inch thick, cut dough into 4 inch circles, place on a greesed baking sheet in a pre-heated oven.(350 degrees).
• Bake for 25 mins or until Bullas rise.
• This is a basic Bulla cake recipe, you can add other ingriedients like ginger root or chocolate.

Steps:

• Mix all cake ingredients in a large bowl. Bake in a greased tube pan for 1 hour and 15 minutes at 350 degrees.
• Let cool 3-4 hours.
• Prepare icing by creaming margarine with cream cheese; then add remaining ingredients.
• Apply icing once cake is cooled.

Steps:

• Add the dates, figs, 1 cup of the port, 1 cup of the rum, the almonds, brandied cherries with their liquid, currants, candied orange peel, prunes and dark and golden raisins to a food processor. Process this mixture until the dried fruit is broken down into smaller chunks. Stir in the orange juice. Allow it to soak in the rum for at least 2 hours 30 minutes, but preferably for 2 to 3 days.
• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Grease 2 cake pans and line them with brown or wax paper.
• In a stand mixer, combine the butter, flour, brown sugar, baking powder, allspice, cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg, salt, molasses, browning and eggs. Slowly add the rum-soaked fruit to the mixer a little at a time and mix to combine all of the ingredients.
• Divide the cake batter between the prepared cake pans. Bake the cakes in a water bath by filling a large roasting pan halfway up with water and then setting the cake pans inside. Bake for 1 hour 30 minutes.
• Sprinkle the remaining port and rum on top of the cakes and let them cool. These cakes will last for days stored in parchment paper and plastic wrap and for weeks when frozen.