Christmas Cake/Fruit Cake

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Christmas Cake/Fruit Cake

Description

Isn't Christmas the most beautiful time of the year? It is that time of the year when we buy gifts and send out greeting cards, set up the Christmas tree, put up Christmas decorations and ornaments, hang stockings so that Santa can give us those much awaited gifts, bake cakes and throw parties, and ...

Cooking Time

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Ingredients

Serves : 4 serving
  • 150 gms black grapes


  • 100 grms raisins


  • 50 grms dates


  • 50 grms orange peel


  • ¼ cup finely chopped cashew nuts


  • ½ tsp finely scraped lemon rind


  • 1 tsp vanilla essence


  • ¼ cup brandy


  • 150 grms dalda


  • 100 grms butter


  • 300 grms powdered sugar


  • 5 big eggs


  • ¼ kg plain flour


  • ¼ cup fine rava


  • 1 tsp baking powder


  • ¼ cup caramel syrup

Directions

  • Cut the fruits finely. Soak the fruits in brandy for 2 days.
  • Cream the butter and vanaspathy. This can be done easily by bringing the butter to room temperature. Add sugar to it, and cream till fluffy. Then add the egg yolk one by one, and beat well.
  • Mix the flour, baking powder and rava. Sieve everything together. Add this to the cake batter little by little, and mix after each addition.
  • Make caramel syrup with 1/4 cup sugar and 1/4 cup boiling water. Add this to the cake mixture once it has cooled down.
  • Whisk the egg white and fold into the mixture.
  • Add the lime rind and essence. Finally with fingers mix the cut fruits and cashew nuts sprinkled with almond essence. Keep the cake batter aside for 6 hours.
  • Pour the cake batter into a greased cake tin, and bake in a slow oven at 150 degrees till the cake is baked.
  • Remove the cake from the tin after it has cooled, and keep covered with a loosely woven cloth for a couple of days to soften it.