Christmas Black Cake

The fruits have been soaking since May and the browning is burning in the iron pot today and tomorrow we are making the Christmas Black Cake.

Just the thought of and the joy of getting to clean the remnants of the cake mixture in the mixing bowl makes me drool.

A tradition of making Fruit Cake in the olden days was to place a small tester in the oven in the foreign fresh butter pan. This was to make sure the cake had the right color and texture before the entire batch of cake was placed to bake.

These are the fond child hood memories I have when I think of granny and her preparations for making a traditional Trini Black Cake. The alcoholic in the cake probably made the memories lighter and more enjoyable.




Trini Christmas Black Cake

Fruits for the Black Cake