Christmas Cake West Indian Style

Ingredients

170 gr raisins
110 gr currants
1/2 candied cherries
50 gr candied citrus peel
1 mixed fruit
350 gr rum
240 ml sweet sherry
220 gr butter at room temperature
110 gr brown sugar
4 eggs
250 gr flour
5 gr baking powder
2 gr ginger
2 gr nutmeg
8 gr cinnamon
1 gr allspice
2 1/2 lemon essence
6 gr almond essence
4 gr vanilla essence
1/4 brown food coloring up
1 additional rum for basting during storage
1 fruit mixture mix all the ingredients
1 month
10 deep round cake baking tin
9 baking tin by lining it with two layers of waxed paper
16 gr rum
5 cake
1 serve with rum sauce

Instructions

Full recipe name is Laurel-Ann's Wedding Cake or Christmas Cake West Indian Style