TRUE yummy COOKING: Island Dishes

Trinidad Black Cake (Christmas Cake)

Soak different fruit (i.e. prunes, raisins, currants, sultanas, mixed peel, cherries etc.) in rum. It can soak all year before it's ready for use. This is what I love to do that way you put all your left over dried fruit in the container throughout the year.

Below is a picture of some dried fruit such as Raisins, Dates, Figs, mixed glazed fruit that I have started to soak.

This fruit soaked in alcohol for over 4 years.

Ingredients:
2 Cups butter
2 Cups Sugar
1/4 Cup brown sugar
10 large eggs
2 Tsp grated lime peel
2 Tsp vanilla extract
4 Cups flour
4 Tsp baking powder
2 Tsp ground cinnamon
1/4 cup browning or more
1 Cup mixture of rum, cherry brandy and sherry

Steps:
Line three 8" round cake pans with double layers of wax paper
Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy
Beat in eggs one at a time; add lime peel and vanilla
Combine flour, baking powder and cinnamon; fold into creamed mixture gradually

Add PUREED soaked fruit with liquor and enough browning to give desired colour; stir well
Put in lined backing pans 3/4 full and bake in preheated oven at 250 F for first hour; reduce heat to 200 - 225 F for remaining 1 1/2 hours or until tester comes out clean

Prick hot cake and soak with a mixture of rum, cherry brandy and sherry. Cover and set aside.
As alcohol soaks in pour more an continue to do so for 12 hours

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Jamaican Sweet Potatoe Pudding

Mix the below

1 Cup Flour
1/2 Cup Cornmeal
1 Tsp salt
1 Tsp baking powder
1 Tsp nutmeg
2 Tsp cinnamon

Chop up Caribbean or Japanesse white sweet potatoes (2 - 3 medium) peeled and cubed. Don't use yam, use sweet potatoe (the potatoe is white inside as seen in one of the pictures below)

In a food processor or a blender, puree potatoes and the below:
1 Cup coconut milk
Vanilla essence
1 1/2 Cup Brown Sugar

Combine wet and dry ingredients above
Add utter and mix
Add 2 Tbsp rum and mix (raisins are optional. I don't usually add any)

Grease Spring pan or any baking dish.

Bake 1 hr 10 min then remove and top with the Topping then bake additionally for 15 - 20 minutes at 350 F. Below is a picture of the topping mixture, and then with the topping poured over the pudding/cake after 1 hr 10 min.