About this dish
A dense, dark rum-soaked fruit cake, traditionally made for Christmas and weddings.
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Ingredients
🍇2 cups mixed dried fruit, soaked in rum
🌾2 cups flour
🧈1 cup butter
🍬1 cup burnt sugar syrup
🥃Rum, for soaking and feeding
Method
Serves 21
Soak the dried fruit in rum for at least several weeks, ideally longer.2
Blend the soaked fruit into a coarse puree.3
Cream butter and sugar, then fold in the fruit puree and flour.4
Add burnt sugar syrup for color and depth.5
Bake low and slow, then feed the finished cake with more rum periodically.✓ What Makes it Authentic
Black cake is a beloved Caribbean holiday dessert, with dried fruit soaked in rum for weeks or months before baking.
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