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Published:Thursday | December 23, 2010 | 12:00 AM
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Fabian Grant (left) who snatched first place for her Breadfruit Blend Christmas cake is being rewarded by Andrew Price with a gift basket courtesy of J Wray and Nephew.
Kevin Stewart (left) receives his second-place-winner gift basket from Misha Haye, 'Flair' Bachelorette 2010.
Lorna Gooden presenting the cake contest's third-place winner, Susan Miller, with a gift basket courtesy of J Wray Nephew.
J Wray & Nephew's Andrew Price (back row right) chilling out with the nine finalists of the J Wray and Nephew Christmas cake contest, (front row, from left) Fabian Grant, Kevin Stewart, and Susan Miller, and (back row, from left), Karen McLeod, Garnet Smith, Andrea Anthony, Emancia Nuefville, Ricardo Esson, and Sophia Campbell, each showing off their bottle of Red Label Wine. - Rudolph Brown/Photographer
Try some of Emanicia Nuefville's Jamaican Christmas Cake Fruit Medley garnished with sorrel pulp and June plum.
Now you can enjoy plantain in a cake. So have a slice of Kevin Stewart's Affi Come Back Plantain Fruitcake that took second-place at the J Wray & Nephew Christmas Cake contest.
A basket of Ricardo Esson's Tropical Pumpkin Carrot Fruitcake.
Fabian Grant's Bread-fruit Blend Fruitcake took first prize at the J Wray & Nephew Christmas Cake contest held at the Gleaner's office, 7 North Street on Friday, December17.
Enjoy a slice of Sophia Campbell's Christmus Cake.
If you are a vegetarian or you just love beet then Karen McLeod's Too Sweet To Beet Fruitcake will be ideal.
Who would have thought beet and plantain could make cake, well Susan Miller combines the two and ended up third-place winner of the J Wray & Nephew Cake contest.
Not because you have diabetes means you have to give up Christmas cake, instead, try Andrea Anthony's sugarless fruitcake.
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Keisha Shakespeare-Blackmore, Staff Reporter

Who would have thought that breadfruit could make a tasty fruit cake, moreover win a Christmas cake contest? But Fabian Grant showed that you can use the popular Jamaican staple to make a scrumptious fruit cake and without the use of flour.

For the J. Wray and Nephew Red Label Wine Christmas Cake contest this
year, contestants were asked to get creative by adding Jamaican-grown
ingredients to their cake recipes. As usual, many heeded the call, but
in the end, only 10 finalists were chosen for the bake-off. Among the
lot was last year's winner, Kevin Stewart who was chosen to defend his
title.

The contestants were very creative and came with some very
interesting recipes. There were cakes with beetroot, plantain, tamarind,
June plum, otaheite apple and of course, breadfruit. There was also a
sugarless cake. The contestants thought of everything, from a cake that
the vegetarian would love to something for the diabetic.

The
finalists were judged on the presentation, texture and taste and the
"want more factor". Some fell short in areas but made up for it in
others. Some had judges taking more than just one bite. But in the end
there could only be one winner. Fabian Grant took first prize for her
Breadfruit Blend Christmas Cake. Defending champion Stewart did put up a
challenge with his Affi Come Back Plantain Christmas cake but ended up
second-place. Newcomer Susan Miller took third place with her Plantain
and Beetroot Fruitcake.