Hey everyone, it’s Brad, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, christmas plum cake. It is one of my favorites. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Christmas plum cake is one of the most popular of recent trending foods in the world. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. They are nice and they look fantastic. Christmas plum cake is something that I’ve loved my entire life.
Loaded with dry fruits and enhanced with goodness of spices is this cake all about! We bring you this perfect recipe of this eggless plum cake/ fruit cake. Their plum cake is very popular and they make thousands at this time of the year. Amma had the recipe so I wanted to share it in time for Christmas.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook christmas plum cake using 24 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Christmas plum cake:
- Get 1 1/2 cup Flour/ maidha
- Make ready 1 tspn Baking powder
- Make ready 1/2 tspn Baking soda
- Prepare 3 Eggs
- Take 1 pinch Salt
- Make ready 1/4 cup Flavourless vegetable Oil
- Make ready 1/2 cup Powdered sugar
- Get 1/2 tspn fresh Orange zest
- Make ready 1 tspn Vanilla essence
- Make ready 2 cloves
- Get 1/4 cup Cashews
- Make ready Spices
- Get 1/2 tspn fresh Nutmeg powder
- Take 1/2 tspn cinnamon powder
- Take 1/2 tspn cardamom powder
- Take For soaking dry fruits
- Make ready 1 cup mixed fruit / grape /orange juice
- Get 1/4 cup Black Raisins
- Take 1/2 cup Dates(pitted)
- Get 1/4 cup Tutti frutti
- Take 1/4 cup Cherries
- Take Sugar syrup
- Prepare 1/2 cup Sugar
- Get 1 cup hot boiling Water
Christmas is almost here and people across the world are gearing up for the merry celebrations, followed by the big night of New Year's eve. Plums, chocolate and hazelnut - this is a cake that really celebrates the season. Enjoy a slice with your mid-morning coffee or serve it warm for dessert. This Plum cake is a recipe I have been following for years and is now a foolproof recipe that I turn to every Christmas.
Steps to make Christmas plum cake:
- Cut the dates and cherries. Soak them in fruit juice(I've used store bought mixed fruit juice) with rasins and tutti frutti for minimum half an hour or overnight.
- In a heavy bottomed pan, add sugar. Once sugar starts to melt lower flame and caramelize to get nice brown color(Do not burn the sugar). Add hot boiling water. (Move far while pouring as it splutters). Reduce this to get ½ cup sugar syrup. Keep aside to cool.
- Separate the egg whites from the yolks in two different mixing bowls.
- Beat the egg whites with an electric beater gradually increasing speed till fluffy and stiff peaks are formed. Add a pinch of salt while beating. Keep aside.
- Now beat the egg yolks in a separate mixing bowl.
- Powder sugar with 2 cloves and add to the egg yolks and beat in high speed till creamy.
- Add oil to the egg yolks mix. Beat. Now grate and add orange zest (taking care not to grate the white part as it gives a bitter taste) followed by vanilla essence. Beat again.
- Next add the ½ cup caramelized sugar syrup and continue beating.
- Now place a sieve over this and add flour, baking powder, baking soda and spices. Mix gently with a spatula using cut and fold method in same direction.
- Strain the dry fruits and add to the batter (without juice). Dust the cashews with some flour and add it to the batter and mix using cut and fold method.
- Now take the beaten eggwhits and add it to cake batter in 3 batches. Fold gently with spatula as previous step.
- Pour into a greased and dusted cake tray and top it with cashews.
- Bake at 180°C in a preheated oven for 45 min placing in the middle rack. Check with toothpick. If it comes out clean the cake is done or keep for 10 more minutes.
- Cool completely on a wire rack and then remove from cake pan. Slice and enjoy!
Enjoy a slice with your mid-morning coffee or serve it warm for dessert. This Plum cake is a recipe I have been following for years and is now a foolproof recipe that I turn to every Christmas. For best results, make it in advance and store it in a dark cool place for the flavours. Soaking of Fruits: Wash and Soak all the dry fruits properly and leave in sunlight a whole day to dry up. Christmas is all about relishing fruitcakes and out of all the variants, the plum cake is the most preferred type!
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