Meaning
A dark, dense, deeply spiced fruit cake soaked in Jamaican rum and red wine — the celebrated Christmas and wedding cake, made with dried fruit that has often been steeped in rum and wine for months, even a year. Also called black cake or Christmas cake, it is rich, moist, and heady with liquor and spice, the crowning cake of the festive table and the wedding feast. Made with care from long-soaked fruit, it is one of the great traditional Jamaican bakes, a taste of Christmas and of every big celebration.
Examples
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Granny soak di fruit fi di rum cake since last Christmas.
Granny soaked the fruit for the rum cake since last Christmas.
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Di rum cake dark an moist an full a flavour.
The rum cake is dark, moist, and full of flavour.
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No Jamaican wedding done widout a rum cake.
No Jamaican wedding is complete without a rum cake.
Origin
Descended from British plum pudding, transformed with local rum, browning, and long-steeped fruit into the rich 'black cake' central to Jamaican Christmas and weddings.
How it’s used
The festive cake for Christmas and weddings; 'black cake' and 'Christmas cake' name the same thing.