Jamaican Spice Bun Recipe

Dessert · Jamaican classic.

Ingredients

• 380g All purpose flour
• 2 tsp Baking Powder
• 2 tsp Ground Cinnamon
• 1/2 tsp Salt
• 1 large Egg
• 150g Brown Sugar
• 250g Beer
• 1/3 cup Milk
• 1/4 cup Honey
• 4 tablespoons Unsalted Butter
• 1 tablespoon Molasses
• 1 tsp Caramelized Sugar Sauce
• 1 tsp Vanilla Extract
• 1/2 cup Dried cranberries
• 1/2 cup Raisins
• 1/2 cup Dried Cherries

Method

1. Continue cooking — Soak the craisins, raisins, and cherries in the 1 cup of beer.
2. Preheat the oven — Set aside and allow to soak for 30 minutes. Preheat the oven to 325 degrees Fahrenheit.
3. Continue cooking — Grease an 8x4 loaf pan. Set aside. Combine all-purpose flour, baking powder, ground cinnamon, salt, in a large bowl and set aside.
4. Continue cooking — In another bowl, combine brown sugar, egg, milk, honey, melted butter, molasses, browning, vanilla extract, and the beer that’s soaking the fruit.
5. Continue cooking — Do not pour the fruit in at this time, just the beer.
6. Mix together — Mix to combine. Remove 2 tablespoon of flour from the flour mixture and toss the fruit in it. Set aside.
7. Mix together — Make a well in the middle of the bowl of dry ingredients and pour in wet mixture, stirring until fully combined.
8. Mix together — And the fruits to the mixture and stir until incpororated.
9. Preheat the oven — Pour mixture into prepared loaf pan and bake in the preheated oven for 50-60 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.
10. Continue cooking — Cool for 5 minutes in the pan and then move to a cooling rack to finish cooling.
11. Serve — Serve with slices of cheddar cheese.

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