Black Cake

Name: Black Cake
Prep time: 24 h
Cook time: 90 min
Total time: 25 h 30 min
Yield: 12 servings
Cuisine: Trinidad and Tobago
Ingredients: 500g mixed dried fruit; 200ml dark rum; 200ml cherry brandy; 250g butter; 250g dark brown sugar; 5 eggs; 250g plain flour; 2 tsp mixed spice; 2 tbsp browning sauce

Trinidad and Tobago

The Caribbean Christmas cake, deeply tied to family tradition. Every family has a recipe passed down through generations.

Trinidadian Christmas cake — dried fruits soaked in rum and cherry brandy for months, baked into a dense, dark, intensely alcoholic fruitcake. The definitive Caribbean Christmas.

Authentic Trinidad and Tobago Black Cake recipe

Photo: Guettarda

Prep

24 hrs

Cook

90 mins

Difficulty

Hard

Calories

490 kcal

Serves

Calories are an estimate based on ingredients used

Ingredients

500gmixed dried fruit

200mldark rum

200mlcherry brandy

250gbutter

250gdark brown sugar

5eggs

250gplain flour

2 tspmixed spice

2 tbspbrowning sauce

Method

Soak fruit in rum and brandy for at least 1 week — preferably months.

Cream butter and sugar. Add eggs one by one. Fold in flour and spice.

Fold in soaked fruit and browning. Bake at 150°C for 90 minutes.

Feed with rum weekly.

Chef's Tip

Soak the fruit for as long as possible — Christmas black cakes in Trinidad often use fruit soaked since the previous year.

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