Cultural Influence: Afro-Caribbean

A Caribbean Christmas fruit cake steeped in rum and dried fruit for weeks or months before baking

Black Cake

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Black Cake is the Caribbean’s most significant baked good — a dense, nearly black fruit cake made across Trinidad, Barbados, Guyana, and Jamaica with small but fiercely defended variations in every household. Its lineage runs directly from British Christmas pudding and fruitcake, brought to the Caribbean by colonizers and transformed by enslaved African cooks who […]

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