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Trinidad black fruit cake is one of the most well liked of current trending foods on earth. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. Trinidad black fruit cake is something which I have loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.

To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. 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. Take For the fruits
2. Prepare 2 cups dried raisins
3. Prepare 1/4 cup cherries
4. Make ready 1/4 cup orange peel
5. Make ready 1 cup rum
6. Prepare 1 cup sherry brandy
7. Make ready For the sugar syrup
8. Prepare 1/2 cup sugar
9. Make ready 4 tablespoons water
10. Make ready For the other ingredients
11. Get 3 eggs n 1 teaspoon vanilla essence
12. Get 2 cups flour
13. Make ready 1 cup brown sugar
14. Take 1 cup butter
15. 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. 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.

Instructions 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

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. 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.

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