Time to Make Jamaican Coffee & Rum Cake with your Coffee Gift

Have you ever wished that you could savour a holiday and recreate that relaxed feeling in the morning when everything tastes better, even it seems the coffee.  A holiday in Jamaica with Mocking Bird Hill guarantees that your coffee will always taste better, as we only stock locally sourced Blue Mountain coffee, the most expensive coffee in the world, direct from the Old Tavern Coffee Estate.

“The quintessential balanced, classic Caribbean cup. Richly low-toned acidity with suggestions of wine and spice; medium bodied but resonant and deeply dimensioned. Complex without distraction.” – Kenneth Davids, The Coffee Review

To help all our guests ease back into the real world we are gifting a Blue Mountain Coffee bag which should last a week .  Hopefully it will stir you up in the morning.  If you really want to recapture the Hotel Mocking Bird Hill experience then here’s our legendary coffee cake recipe for you to recreate at home

COFFEE AND RUM CAKE

4 tbsp Raisins and chopped dry fruits
4 cl Golden Rum
5 tbsp strong espresso style coffee
180g Butter
180g Sugar
3 eggs
110g Flour
¼ litre Strong coffee
2 tbsp. Rum
1 tbsp Sugar
¼ l Cream
Vanilla Hundreds and Thousands
1 tbsp Chocolate grated

Method:

Soak raisins and dried fruit in rum.  Cream sugar and butter.   Add eggs, flour and coffee.   Add soaked dried fruit and raisins.

Pour the mixture into a greased tin and baked in a preheated oven. 150 C – for approx. 45-50 minutes until inserted skewer comes out clean

Stir in sugar and rum to the coffee.

Cool cake on a wire tray. Prick cake generously all over. Gradually pour coffee/rum mixture by the spoon full. Let it soak in overnight at room temperature

Beat cream stiff.  Serve with cream sprinkled with grated chocolate.

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Blue Mountain Coffee Revelry

Jamaica's Blue Mountain Coffee is one of those drinks that once tried is never forgotten.   Vibrant but gentle, this rich but mellow coffee is the world's most expensive coffee and Japan's favoured drink after Sake. What we particularly love about Blue Mountain Coffee's unique taste is that unlike many other coffees you don't need a sugar plantation to make it into something that is palatable, even when served as an espresso.

Here's our favourite winter way of serving this rather special coffee; obviously you can try at home with your own favourite coffee blend. If we are feeling particularly decadent we like to add in a shot of our home-made orange liqueur, you can subsitute this with a shot Cointreau.

If you fancy trying Blue Mountain Coffee at source perhaps consider a visit to Hotel Mocking Bird Hill where we can take you hiking in the Blue Mountains to take a look around a Coffee Plantation or perhaps consider our Sea & Mountain Escape, where you divide your time between the Blue Mountains and the Caribbean Sea.

Cinnamon Mocha Drink

¼ cup & 2 tbsp. dark unsweetened cocoa powder
¼ cup sugar
1 tsp. cinnamon and more for garnish
2 long shots freshly brewed espresso
2 cups whole milk
Whipped cream
 
Method:

Whisk cocoa powder, sugar and cinnamon.
Add espresso and whisk till smooth
Heat milk in separate pan until it begins to simmer
Add espresso mixture and heat for 5 minutes
Remove from heat
Pour into 2 mugs
Add whipped cream and sprinkle with cinnamon
 

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