black cake

English

Noun

black cake (countable and uncountable, plural black cakes)

1. A Caribbean fruitcake based on the English plum pudding, with plums and raisins soaked in rum.
   • 2022, Ayanna Lloyd Banwo, When We Were Birds, Hamish Hamilton, page 177:

     ‘She was telling her daughter the best way to soak the fruit for black cake one Christmas.’