Welcome to Rain's Thursday Art and Dinner Date! Cathy is kindly hosting today. Rain is back and will be hosting the Art and Dinner Date again starting Oct 9th!
For the Dinner Date, I made a sour cherry fruit cake based on a Jamaican black cake recipe. The process of making this cake is rather involved but I thought I would document it here anyway. These cakes require fruit to be pre-soaked for weeks or months in alcohol such as rum and wine. I used the fruit from my sour cherry liqueur. It was delicious! The cake should be darker but I ended up making my own browning and I didn't brown the sugar enough.
Here is my recipe:
9" round or square pan
1/3 c butter
3/4 c brown sugar
2 tbs vanilla
6 eggs
5 tbs browning (browned sugar)
2 tbs molasses
1 tbs ground cinnamon
1 tsp ground nutmeg
1/4 tsp ground allspice
1 1/2 c flour
1 1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
2c soaked fruit plus 1/4 c cherry liqueur for puree
1/4c cherry liqueur
juice of 1/2 lime (or lemon)
zest of 1/2 lime (or lemon)
1/2c port wine to pour on top of cake as soon as it comes out of oven
Browning recipe (can also be bought in a bottle)
1/3c dark sugar
1/3c boiling water
In saucepans on med heat melt sugar 4-5 min, then 2-3 more min till dark, mix in boiling water
300F oven
Grease and flour your pan
You will need a pan of water for steaming
Blend the fruit and 1/4c of liqueur.
In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar in a mixer for 5 mins.
add eggs to another large bowl. whisk 3-5mins till foamy. add vanilla, browning, molasses, lime juice
mix on low speed for 30 seconds. add cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice, baking powder, salt, lime zest. mix 30 seconds on low speed
Pour egg mix into butter mix, fold in fruit puree then flour plus 1/4 c liqueur. pour into prepared pan.
bake in preheated 300F oven for 2 hours with a cake pan underneath to steam.
The cake is ready when a knife comes out clean.
Pour wine on top of the cake as soon as cake comes out of oven. enjoy.
26 comments:
Love the crown card! Want the brownie!
I can almost smell the spices and the rich fruit soaking in liqueur. I love how you paired it with a Macbeth theme.
Love your bloody crown!
The card is so interesting and the cake sounds amazing.
The cake reminds me of holiday fruit cake.
The cake looks delicious and the crown is suitably bloody.
Very nice bake! Love that you did the time with the cherries.
Kuvvyour take on the prompt.
Mine is HERE
Much♡love
That recipe sounds delicious, Christine, and I love the bloody crown for Macbeth. I still remember teaching that play to middle school kids. They actually loved it!
You did a great job with the bloody crown.
Wonderful art and the cake looks delish!
Awesome art.
I love your art for this week's theme! And, your cake sounds yummy. I bet your house smelled so good while it was baking, too. :p
Your cake sounds dellicious
Nice art 👑 🎨
When fruitcake is done right, it comes out really good.
Lovely card! I love brownies. :) Warm greetings from Montreal, Canada.
Thanks for sharing the recipe. Looks great!
Your Bloody Crown sounds wonderfully evocative of Macbeth, and that sour cherry fruit cake must have been a true labour of love
El pastel se ve muy rico. Lindo dibujo. Te mando un beso.
Your crown card is great and thanks for the recipe too :)
I like the bloody crown for Macbeth.
Thank you for sharing details of the recipe.
All the best Jan
I. love the card and wish I could taste the cake. :)
Not familiar with any Shakespeare, but love your crown. I have made something similar in the past. In my recipe, I also had to add more rum once a week and turn the cake over. Never again, but yours looks delicious.
You baked a delicious cake and your crown is beautifully painted!!!
Hugs Elke
Good art. And tasty cake :-D
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