Traditional Jamaican Easter Bun recipe
Jamaican Easter Bun is a sweet bread infused with Guinness, spices and red wine. Start your Easter morning the way they do in Jamaica with this sweet bread, cheese and a cup of tea.
Servings: 12 people
Calories: 261kcal
Ingredients
- 2 tablespoons softened butter
- 1 ½ cups Guinness or stout beer
- ½ cup red wine
- 2 teaspoons browning
- 2 tablespoons guava jelly/ guava jam
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1 egg
- 1 cup firmly packed brown sugar
- 3 ½ cups all purpose flour or whole wheat pastry flour
- ½ teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg
- ½ teaspoon ground mace
- ½ teaspoon ground ginger
- ¼ teaspoon ground clove
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1 tablespoon baking powder
- ¾ cup tutti frutti candied fruit
- ½ cup raisins
- glace cherries garnish
Topping Ingredients:
- 2 tablespoons sugar
- 2 tablespoons water
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 F. Spray a loaf pan with non stick spray.
- In a large bowl, combine flour, nutmeg, mace, ginger, clove, salt, cinnamon and baking powder.
- Sift the flour mixture.
- Toss the dried fruits in about 1 cup of the flour. This prevents the fruit from sinking to the bottom when baking.
- In the bowl of an electric mixer, combine butter, Guinness, wine, browning, guava jelly and vanilla extract.
- Beat well.
- Add egg and beat until thoroughly combined
- Add sugar and beat until well mixed.
- Add flour combination in 2 batches, beating well after each addition.
- Using a rubber spatula, fold in the tutti frutti and the raisins tossed in the flour.
- Transfer the batter to the greased loaf pan.
- Decorate the top with the glace cherries.
- Bake for 1 hour.
- In a small bowl, whisk the sugar and water together.
- Using a pastry brush, brush the top with the sugar water.
- Bake for another 15 minutes, until a tester inserted comes out clean.
- Allow to cool for 10 minutes before removing from pan.
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Notes
All of the specialty items can be sourced at Caribbean markets.
To prevent the glace cherries from sinking, wait 20 minutes after being in the oven before adding them on top.
Nutrition
Calories: 261kcal | Carbohydrates: 52g | Protein: 6g | Fat: 3g | Saturated Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 19mg | Sodium: 129mg | Potassium: 248mg | Fiber: 4g | Sugar: 20g | Vitamin A: 78IU | Vitamin C: 1mg | Calcium: 91mg | Iron: 1mg
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