Eggless Christmas Fruit Cake / Eggless plum cake
Last year I posted Plum cake with eggs. Last year itself I tried
Eggless Christmas Fruit cake. But I had no time to post. It came out very well
and the taste was very good. Chopping the dried fruits is only the difficult
thing. But making fruit cake is very easy. I already uploaded soaking of driedfruits. I will soon upload green apple sauce and how to make caramel syrup.
Now let us see how to make Eggless Christmas Fruit Cake
Here is the quick video
Here is the quick video
Preparation time -
13 hours (12 hours for soaking dried fruits )
Baking time -
45 minutes
Yield -
1 kg approximately
Ingredients:
Nuts:
Nuts:
Cashew -25 gms
Almond - 25 gms
Walnut - 25 gms
For Spice Powder:
Nutmeg - 1
Cloves - 10
Cinnamon 1 inch piece - 5.
Dried Fruits:
For Cake
Maida - 180 gms (1 ½ cup)
Almond - 25 gms
Walnut - 25 gms
For Spice Powder:
Nutmeg - 1
Cloves - 10
Cinnamon 1 inch piece - 5.
Dried Fruits:
Black dates (seedless) - 100 gms
Cherry - 100 gms
Tutti frutti - 100 gms
Black grapes - 100 gms
Dry sweet ginger - 50 gms
Sultana - 50 gms
Orange juice - 200 ml
Orange marmalade - 3 tablsp
Zest of lemon -1
Zest of orange - 1
For Caramel Syrup:
Sugar - 2 tsp
Water - 3 tablspFor Caramel Syrup:
Sugar - 2 tsp
For Cake
Maida - 180 gms (1 ½ cup)
Butter -
110 gms
Brown sugar -
110 gms
Chopped nuts -
75 gms
Soaked fruits -
500 gms
Green apple sauce -
½ cup
Caramel syrup -
¼ cup
Spice powder -
1 tsp
Baking powder -
½ tsp
Baking soda -
½ tsp
Milk -
¼ cup
Salt -
¼ tsp
Method:
Sift Maida, Baking
powder, baking soda and salt twice. Add butter and brown sugar in a bowl.
whisk till frothy. Add apple sauce and caramel syrup and stir.
Add soaked dried
fruits and chopped nuts. Add spice powder and mix it well with spatula.
Add
maida and mix without lumps. Add milk and mix.
Grease baking tray with butter
and dust it with flour. Add cake batter
three fourth of the greased tray.
Pre heat oven to 150 degree. Bake 45 to 50 minutes or insert the toothpick
in the centre of the cake, if it comes out clean then the cake is done.
Cool the cake completely and invert in the plate. Cut it into pieces.
Note:
Always use fresh baking powder for good result.
Don’t add baking powder more or else then the cake will
break.
Baking time may vary oven to oven. So adjust and bake.
Instead of marmalade, you can use candied orange peels.
Instead of marmalade, you can use candied orange peels.
For caramel syrup you can use 2 tsp sugar and 3 tablsp
water.
Instead of adding apple sauce you can cook one medium size
potato, mash it well and add also.
Spice powder: Nutmeg 1, cloves 10, Cinnamon 1 inch piece 5.
Dry roast slightly and powder it.
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