Fruitcake gets quite the bad rap, but have you ever tasted a Jamaican fruitcake? Gooey, moist Jamaican fruitcake, also known as Black cake or Christmas cake, is a must on many Caribbean holiday tables. And since you cannot have Jamaican fruitcake without sorrel wine- an iced hibiscus mulled wine, baker Altreisha Foster of Sugarspoon Desserts, makes that too, and brings chef Yia Vang along for the ride.

Get Altreisha Foster’s Jamaican fruitcake and sorrel wine recipes here:
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Relish shares stories of cultural heritage in Twin Cities communities through the universal language of food. In each episode, host Yia Vang (Union Hmong Kitchen) takes viewers inside the home kitchens of local chefs as they serve up an ingredient or dish that has personal and cultural meaning to them: https://www.tptoriginals.org/series/r...

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00:30: What does a Jamaican fruitcake taste like?
00:39: Fruitcake is dense
00:49: Key Jamaican fruitcake ingredients
1:51: What is Sorrel Wine? Aka the perfect pairing with Jamaican fruitcake
2:47: What are the origins of fruitcake?
3:37: Fruitcake outlawed
3:54: How to make Jamaican fruitcake
3:58: How did fruitcake get to Jamaica?
4:58: What is browning?
5:21: Jamaican Black Cake and Jamaican Christmas Cake
5:44: Where did Baker Altreisha Foster learn to make Jamaican fruitcake?
6:40: How to avoid making dense fruitcake
07:30 Making sorrel - or hibiscus – wine
09:25 Decorating and preserving Jamaican fruitcake
11:10 Trying the Jamaican fruitcake and sorrel wine