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By Catherine Kelly


Christmas is just next month and everywhere you turn you will find festive foods for sale. Every year you will need to make some decisions on what you will buy. In England rum pudding and cake are traditional and always will be. For a hearty dessert that will bring warmth to you this Christmas choose Jamaican black cake for sale locally in bakeries.

There are literally dozens of types of desserts on your supermarket shelves for this time of year. Most will have fruit content. But check just what is in them if you are thinking of trying one. Many won't actually contain any rum. For a real treat forget pre-packed baked goods and choose a fine select Rum cake that is generously filled with fruit and dark liquor.

So let's take a look at the different options you have when you want a Jamaican style dessert for your festive day. Firstly you can choose between a pudding or a cake. Or why not simply have both. A pudding served with rum sauce is the traditional dessert in the United Kingdom for Christmas day. As well as there being liquor in the sauce there will be in the pudding itself. But don't worry about if you can give it to kids or not. Unless you actually pour rum over the top without cooking, the alcohol content will be zero as it will have been cooked.

One thing is for sure at that is you'll be eating a lot of food this festive season. A baked cold dessert and a hot pudding can both feature on the menu. After unwrapping of gifts in the morning, the eating will commence, and things won't quieten down till bed time. After your hot rum dish you will be full and there will still be more food to come in the afternoon.

But only a few hours later the food will reappear on the table. Turkey will be cold sliced with stuffing. The perfect sandwich treat. A party type tea is what's in store with your Jamaica Christmas log in pride of place in the middle of the table. But after so much rich food, often it will go uncut.

This is one reason you should choose a rum and fruit dessert. The fruit is rich in fiber and a lot more healthy than other alternatives. The way the dessert is made ensures that it won't go dry or go off. In fact, if you put it in a tin it will last for months. It is not unheard of to keep such a dessert for the entire year, many people saying it tastes better the more time it is allowed to mature.

So, this is why you should not settle for a cheap supermarket dessert that may go off and certainly is not as tasty as one you buy in a bakery. You could even try baking one yourself, but really buying one that has been hand-baked is the best choice.

Royal icing is the perfect way to decorate your dessert, with a layer of marzipan in the middle. If you aren't any good at making icing, you can by ready to roll. This means that even someone who is no good at baking and is a disaster in the kitchen can still have a great looking Christmas log.




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