Jamaican Sorrel Fruit Cake
The Jamaican sorrel fruit cake is similar to the Jamaican Black cake or Christmas fruit cake. Made with sorrel puree, it is a delicious, dense but delicate cake.
Ingredients
Sorrel Puree
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Fruit Puree
- 1 cup of mixed fruits (currants, raisins, cherries & prunes*)
- ¼ cup rum (wine or fruit juice)
Sorrel Cake
- 1 cup Butter or Margarine
- 1 cup Brown Sugar
- 3 Eggs
- 3 cups Flour
- 2 teaspoons Baking Powder
- ½ teaspoon Mixed Spice
- ½ teaspoon Nutmeg
- ½ teaspoon Cinnamon
- ¼ teaspoon Salt
- ¼ cup Sorrel juice (rum or wine)
- 1 ½ cups Sorrel Puree
- ½ Cup Stewed Mixed fruit
Instructions
To make the Sorrel puree
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To make the Fruit puree
- Wash and Soak fruits in 1/2 cup of rum, wine or apple juice.
- Leave to stand for 2 hours to overnight until fruits are soft and plump.
- Grind in a blender or food processor.
To make Jamaican Sorrel Fruit Cake
- Preheat oven to 180°C (350°F).
- Brush an 8-inch cake pan with butter and lightly dust with flour.
- Whisk together flour, baking powder, pimento (allspice), nutmeg, cinnamon, salt and set aside.
- Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
- Beat in eggs one at a time.
- Add half of the flour mixture, fold in gently until well combined.
- Add sorrel juice and mix.
- Fold in the rest of the flour mix.
- Gently fold in Sorrel puree and fruit puree.
- Fill prepared pan, smooth top and bake for 1 hour, or until a skewer inserted in the centre comes out clean.
- Cool in the pan on top of a wire rack then turn out of the pan.
- Serve with a Sorrel drink, Virgin Pina Colada, Easy Homemade Lemonade, Beetroot Juice Mocktail, Cucumber drink (Cucumber Agua Fresca), Afterglow Mocktail.
Notes
- Use a mixture of currants, raisins, cherries & prunes or some of them.
- Red food colouring can be added especially if the colour of your sorrel is not very deep red.
- White sugar also works fine.
- The sorrel pulp leftover from making sorrel (Zobo) drink can be used in making Jamaican Sorrel Fruit Cake.
- You can add crushed nuts of choice to your delicious cake.
