christmas cake recipe | fruit cake recipe | plum cake recipe
easy christmas cake recipe | fruit cake recipe | plum cake recipe
Servings 1 loaf
Ingredients
for soaking dryfruits:
- ¼ cup raisins / dry grapes / kishmish finely chopped
- ¼ cup cranberries finely chopped
- 0.25 cup figs / anjeer finely chopped
- ¼ cup cherries finely chopped
- ¼ cup apricot / khubani finely chopped
- 0.25 cup pitted dry dates / khajur seedless, finely chopped
- 1 cup grape juice / apple juice or you can also use red wine / brandy / rum or any alcohol
for fruit cake batter:
- 1.25 cups water warm
- 1 cup brown sugar powdered (you can also use normal white sugar. however, brown sugar gives brown colour to cake)
- 2/3 rd cup vegetable oil / any unflavoured oil
- 2 cups plain flour / maida / all-purpose flour
- ½ tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp baking powder
- ½ tsp cinnamon powder / dalchini powder
- pinch of salt
- ¼ tsp nutmeg powder / jayfhal powder
- ½ tsp cardamom powder / elachi powder
- 1 tsp vanilla extract / vanilla essence
- ½ tsp orange / lemon zest peel
- ¼ tsp almonds / badam finely chopped
- 0.25 tsp walnut / akharut
Instructions
- firstly, soak dry fruits in grape juice / alcohol for 2 hours.
- furthermore, take warm water, powdered sugar and oil. blend.
- further sieve plain flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon powder, nutmeg powder, cardamom powder and salt.
- also add orange zest and vanilla extract.
- blend till the batter is combined and squeezed dry fruits, almonds and walnuts. gently mix.
- further, transfer the cake batter into the cake mould.
- bake at 180 degree celsius for 40 minutes.
- finally, serve the christmas fruit cake.