CHRISTMAS CAKE

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Provided by Food Network

Categories     dessert

Time 1h45m

Yield 10 servings

Number Of Ingredients 25

1/2 pound unsalted butter
1/2 pound light brown sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 teaspoons lime juice
1 teaspoon lime zest
6 eggs
6 ounces fresh bread crumbs
6 ounces flour
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
1/4 teaspoon ground cloves
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1/4 teaspoon kosher salt
1 cup rum
1 pint Port
4 cups mixed marinated fruit, recipe follows, squeezed and finely chopped
1 pound black raisins
1 pound golden raisins
1 pound prunes, cut in quarters or eighths, depending on size
4 cinnamon sticks
2 vanilla beans, split
Jamaican white rum
Jamaican spiced rum
Port

Steps:

  • Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
  • In a mixing bowl, cream the butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Mix in the vanilla, lime juice, and lime zest. Add the eggs 1 at a time, and incorporate well. Combine bread crumbs, flour, all the spices, baking powder, and salt. Combine rum and port. Add flour mixture alternately with rum/port mixture into the batter. Fold in the chopped marinated fruit.
  • Prepare 1 (9-inch) cake pan or 2 spring form pans by lining bottom and sides with parchment paper. Fill the pan 3/4 of the way and bake until a skewer comes out of the center of the cake clean, about 1 hour and 10 minutes.
  • Put raisins, prunes, cinnamon sticks, and vanilla beans in a glass jar and cover with mixture of equal parts Jamaican white rum, Jamaican spiced rum, and Port. Cover with a tight fitting lid, label, and date the jar. Put in a cool, dry cupboard. From time to time, check the fruits to see if more liquor is needed, as the fruits will plump and soak up the liquid.
  • Keep the fruit covered in liquor. It is best to allow the fruit to marinate for at least 1 month for best flavor.

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