Caribbean Fruit Dessert Food

CARIBBEAN FRUIT DESSERT

Steps:

• First be sure to have all of your fruit prepared.
• Melt your butter in a large heavy-based frying pan.
• Once it is melted, add the pineapple and cook for 3 minutes until it starts to brown; turn occasionally.
• Add your mango, papaya, and bananas to the frying pan and cook for just one minute, making sure you turn occasionally.
• Next stir in your maple syrup, cinnamon, and rum and cook for 2 more minutes until the sauce thickens and fruit is nice and tender.
• Serve immediately with yogurt.

JAMAICAN BLACK CAKE

Steps:

• Add the dates, figs, 1 cup of the port, 1 cup of the rum, the almonds, brandied cherries with their liquid, currants, candied orange peel, prunes and dark and golden raisins to a food processor. Process this mixture until the dried fruit is broken down into smaller chunks. Stir in the orange juice. Allow it to soak in the rum for at least 2 hours 30 minutes, but preferably for 2 to 3 days.
• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Grease 2 cake pans and line them with brown or wax paper.
• In a stand mixer, combine the butter, flour, brown sugar, baking powder, allspice, cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg, salt, molasses, browning and eggs. Slowly add the rum-soaked fruit to the mixer a little at a time and mix to combine all of the ingredients.
• Divide the cake batter between the prepared cake pans. Bake the cakes in a water bath by filling a large roasting pan halfway up with water and then setting the cake pans inside. Bake for 1 hour 30 minutes.
• Sprinkle the remaining port and rum on top of the cakes and let them cool. These cakes will last for days stored in parchment paper and plastic wrap and for weeks when frozen.

JAMAICA CAKE

Steps:

• Mix together sugar, vegetable oil, pecans, flour, and bananas in a 13 x 9 inch pan. Stir in the eggs, pineapple (with juice), vanilla, salt and baking soda. Mix well. Do not mash the bananas.
• Bake in a preheated 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) oven for 60 minutes or until cake tests done.

SHARON'S JAMAICAN FRUIT CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour 2 - 9 inch round cake pans.
• In a large bowl, cream together the butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in eggs, then add rum, lime juice, vanilla, almond extract, and lime zest. Stir in mixed fruit, wine, and molasses. Sift together flour, baking powder, nutmeg, allspice, cinnamon, and salt. Fold into batter, being careful not to over-mix. Pour into prepared pans.
• Bake in preheated oven for 80 to 90 minutes, or until a knife inserted into the center comes out clean. Let cool in pan for 10 minutes, then turn out onto a wire rack and cool completely.

THE CARIBBEAN MANGO FOOL

Steps:

• Put mango pieces in blender & liquidize (or mash well in a bowl with a fork).
• Stir the lime or lemon juice into the mango puree, mixing well.
• In another bowl, whisk the cream until it starts to thicken, but not enough to form peaks. Set aside.
• Stir in the yogurt & coconut milk (if using) into the mango mixture.
• Gently fold the cream into the mango mixture.
• Pour the fool into bowls or glasses and put them into the refrigerator to chill until serving time.
• Decorate with slices of mango before serving.