Jamaican Banana Bread

Ingredients
1 1/2 cups flour
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 cup chopped walnuts
1 tsp baking powder
41/2 ounces of margarine
1 tsp vanilla essence
2 Large eggs
3/4 cup brown sugar
1 cup mashed ripe banana

Method
Grease loaf pans and or muffin tins (2-3)
Line bases with grease paper or if using pyrex dish, grease with butter and coat with sprinkled flour.
Cream margarine, vanilla essence and sugar in small bowl until light and fluffy, add eggs one at a time, beat until combined.
Stir in half the banana with half the sifted dry ingredients and half the walnuts, then stir in remaining banana, dry ingredients and walnuts, stir until combined.
Spread mixture evenly into prepared pans
Bake in moderate oven (350 degrees farenheit) for about 45 minutes. Stand 5 minutes before turning on to wire rack to cool. 

Jamaican Cornmeal Pudding

Ingredients

1/2 cup flour
2 cups cornmeal
1 cup brown sugar
4 cups coconut milk
1/4 tsp. mixed spice
1 tsp. salt
1 tsp. nutmeg
1/4 cup raisins
1 tsp. margarine

Method

1. Pre heat oven to 180 degrees celcius
2. Combine sifted flour and cornmeal
3. Mix together sugar, milk, mixed spice and nutmeg. Add cornmeal mixture stirring until smooth. No lumps
4. Add raisins. Scrape mixture into a greased baking pan, Dot with margerine.
5. Bake until skewer inserted comes out clean.

Custard Topping 

Ingredients
1 tsp cinnamon powder
1/2 cup coconut milk
4 tsp sugar
1 tsp vanilla

Method

1. Mix all ingredients together
2. Pour over pudding when it is 3/4 done and allow baking until custard is set.

Jamaican Egg Nog Cheesecake

Evening treat

Ingredients

1 cup Graham cracker crumbs
2 tbsps white sugar
3 tablespoons melted butter
3 (8 oz) packages cream cheese (softened)
1 cup white sugar
3 tbsps all-purpose flour
3/4 cupp eggnog
2 eggs
2 tbsps rum
1 pinch ground nutmeg

Method

1. Preheat oven to 325 degrees Fahrenheit
2. In a medium bowl combine Graham cracker crumbs & 2 tbsps sugar and butter. Press into bottom of a 9 inch springform pan
3. Bake in preheated oven for 10 minutes. Place on a wire rack to cool
4. Preheat oven to 425 degrees Fahrenheit
5. In a food processor combine cream cheese, one cup sugar, flour and eggnog; process until smooth. Blend in eggs, rum and nutmeg. Pour mixture into golden crust.
6. Bake in preheated oven for 10 minutes.
7. Reduce heat to 250 degrees Fahrenheit and bake for 45 minutes, or until centre of cake is barely firm to touch.
8. Remove from the oven and immediately loosen cake from rim. Let cake cool completely before removing rim.

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