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Festive Sorrel Fruit Cake Recipe Without Food Coloring

Hibiscus fruit cake
Sorrel/Hibiscus Fruit Cake

The sorrel drink is a traditional Caribbean punch, typically made with white rum and is commonly served on Christmas day or even New Year’s Day. This tangy punch is so delicious that people put a twist on it and came up with the well sought-after sorrel fruit cake. No doubt this cake is quite popular this Christmas. There are many different version of the sorrel/hibiscus cake. Here is my version of this moist, fluffy, eye-catching cake.

INGREDIENTS

  • 1/2 cup butter (1 stick)
  • 1/2 cup margarine (1stick)
  • 2 tablespoons shortening
  • 1 cup light brown or white sugar
  • 5 eggs
  • 2 cups all-purpose flour
  • 2 teaspoons baking powder
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
  • 1 teaspoon mixed spice
  • 1 teaspoon cinnamon extract or ground cinnamon
  • 1 teaspoon rosewater
  • 1 teaspoon almond flavor
  • 1 teaspoon lemon extract
  • 3 teaspoons lime juice
  • grated rind from the lime (lime skin)
  • 1 1/2 cup pureed sorrel (Add more for a deeper color)
  • 1 cup combined pureed and partly chopped fruits (presoaked in rum and wine)

DIRECTIONS

  1. Mix the butter, margarine, shortening, and sugar until fluffy.
  2. Lightly whisk eggs in a separate bowl.
  3. Add the eggs a little at a time while mixing it into the butter, margarine, and sugar.
  4. Continue adding the remaining eggs and mix for about a minute or two.
  5. Add the pureed sorrel and fruits, and the other liquid spices, then mix. (You can also add some of the sorrel juice to give your cake a little more red color.)
  6. Sift all the dry ingredients in a different bowl (flour, baking powder, salt, and mixed spice).
  7. Add the dry ingredients a little at a time and mix it in the creamed sugar, butter, margarine, and shortening, using the cut and fold method.
  8. Pour the batter into a greased baking pan and bake at 350 degrees for 45 minutes to 1 hour or when a toothpick is inserted and come out clean.

Baking Tips

The cut and fold method is done this way: Use a wooden spoon to mix the ingredients starting from the top center of the bowl, keep going to the right like you are making a circle. Bring the mixture with your spoon all the way around to the left of the bowl, then bring it up to the left and top center and down  the center of the mixture.