Hey everyone, it is John, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, christmas plum cake. It is one of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Christmas plum cake is one of the most well liked of current trending meals on earth. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. Christmas plum cake is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.
Plum cake is basically a fruit cake and the best part is that it has a long shelf life as compared to other cream based cakes. To makes it even more interesting, you can tweak it as per your palate. Made with readily available ingredients in your kitchen, this recipe uses eggs, but if you are a vegetarian, then you can replace eggs with baking. christmas cake recipe
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have christmas plum cake using 24 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Christmas plum cake:
- Make ready 1 1/2 cup Flour/ maidha
- Make ready 1 tspn Baking powder
- Make ready 1/2 tspn Baking soda
- Prepare 3 Eggs
- Make ready 1 pinch Salt
- Prepare 1/4 cup Flavourless vegetable Oil
- Take 1/2 cup Powdered sugar
- Take 1/2 tspn fresh Orange zest
- Make ready 1 tspn Vanilla essence
- Take 2 cloves
- Make ready 1/4 cup Cashews
- Take Spices
- Take 1/2 tspn fresh Nutmeg powder
- Get 1/2 tspn cinnamon powder
- Prepare 1/2 tspn cardamom powder
- Prepare For soaking dry fruits
- Take 1 cup mixed fruit / grape /orange juice
- Take 1/4 cup Black Raisins
- Get 1/2 cup Dates(pitted)
- Prepare 1/4 cup Tutti frutti
- Take 1/4 cup Cherries
- Get Sugar syrup
- Get 1/2 cup Sugar
- Prepare 1 cup hot boiling Water
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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!
Traditional Christmas Plum Cake / Fruit Cake. Traditional Christmas Plum Cake / Fruit cake preparation is something I look forward to every year, and enjoy all the activities that goes into the preparation; right from the soaking, mixing of dry fruits, the elaborate baking procedures, the enchanting aroma that fills the entire house, the cutting of Christmas cake amidst all cheers and joy and. Plum cake refers to a wide range of cakes made with either dried fruit (such as currants, raisins, or prunes) or with fresh fruit. There is a wide range of popular plum cakes and puddings. Since the meaning of the word "plum" has changed over time, many items referred to as plum cakes and popular in England since at least the eighteenth century have now become known as fruitcake.
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