Caribbean fruit and rum cake will make you forget all about fruitcake. once the lid is lifted, the cake is likely covered in clear plastic wrap or wax paper. the sweet smell of rum, wine, and fruit wafts through the air. this fruit cake is soft but dense, like a memory foam pillow. first bites are filled with a bit of sweetness — that’s the taste of sugar, raisins, prunes, and cherries — while the aftertaste is a burst of jamaican rum and wine, the central ingredients which give rise to tantalizing tingle of your taste buds.