cake thread

[missus_vegas]

tropicana or smaddy else wid mad skills can u pls bring up dat old long time thread dat talked about baking black cake. its dat time of year again and mi cant seem to find my recipe. technically is pound a everyting and 12 eggs but mi still want find the recipe.

[twiney]

I can share mine with you when I get home.

[CeaBee]

i doan remember that thread. what it did name or who started it?

[twiney]

Ingredients
1 lb butter
1 lb sugar
1/4 -1/3 cup browning
2 tsp vanilla
1 tsp almond flavouring
2 tsp lime juice
2 tsp lime or orange rind
8-12 eggs (based on size)
3 cups raisins
2 cups prunes
1 cup currants
1 cup cherries
1 cup citron
1 cup bread crumbs
2 cups flour
2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
2 tbsp mixed spice
1 cup rum
1 pint port wine (fruit wine or red label if you can get it)

Directions
Preheat oven to 350 f
Line baking tins with grease paper
Chop fruits in blender adding more rum/wine as needed (if fruits not soaked steam for 5 mins and cool before chopping)
Beat butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
Mix in browning, vanilla and almond flavouring, lime juice and rind
Add eggs 1 at a time and beat in well
Mix bread crumbs, flour, baking powder, mixed spice and salt
Add blended fruits and flour mixture alternately to egg mixture
Bake for 2- 2.5 hrs or until toothpick comes out clean. Place a pan of water below cakes.

[Pepper]

Here is the post. Donnika is the one with the 12 eggs recipe. I have used it, 12 eggs and all and it came out pretty good.

http://www.jamaicans.com/forums/showthread.php?4017-Black-cake-recipe-please&highlight=black+cake

[missus_vegas]

thanks peps:bigip:

this the one mi use last year. mi love how it simple.

Twiney maybe next yr mi venture into urs with lime juice an all dem other ingerdiments mi see u use.