I promised to share the three cake recipes I made a few days back. I already gave the marble cake, now it is the christmas fruit cake. I make this for my husband's birthday, which falls around christmas and he loves this!
This recipe calls for a little planning, but the end result is so full of aroma and flavour, it is totally worth the effort!
For this you will need -
300 gms - Dry fruits ( cashews, figs, walnuts, raisings, dates, almonds) These are what I added this year. You can add any other dry fruit of your choice too.
Cut them into little pieces and soak in rum/brandy for a month or even two! This is the planning bit :)
On the day of baking -
2 Nos - 9 inch round pans
300 gms - Flour
1/4 tspn - Salt
1 tspn - Baking Powder
1/4 Cup - Tutty-Fruity
250 gms - Unsalted Butter (Leave out the salt, if using salted butter)
300 gms - Brown Sugar
100 gms - Powdered White Sugar
3 Nos - Eggs
1 tspn - Date Syrup/ Honey
1 tspn - Vanilla Extract
1 tspn - Orange Rind Powder
1 tspn - Cinnamon Powder
1 tspn - Dry Ginger Powder
1 tspn - Nutmeg Powder
1/2 Cup - Milk
Method -
Sieve the flour, salt and baking powder thrice. Mix tutty fruity to this and stir well. Beat the butter and add the brown and white sugar, little by little, continuing to beat. You should get a smooth mixture. Now add, one egg at a time and keep on beating, till the egg is nicely incorporated. Now add the honey, vanilla extract, orange rind powder, cinnamon powder, dry ginger powder and nutmeg powder, one by one and mix well. Add the dry fruits now and give it a good mix. Make sure you have the muscle power to do this :) Add milk to this to get the right consistency, if you feel it is too dry that is. You can leave some milk if you want to add it after you have added the flour too. Now, add the flour mixture and fold into the batter.
Pour this into a pan and bake at 150 deg C for 45 - 50 minutes. This quantity is enough to fill two 9 inch round pans.
This recipe calls for a little planning, but the end result is so full of aroma and flavour, it is totally worth the effort!
For this you will need -
300 gms - Dry fruits ( cashews, figs, walnuts, raisings, dates, almonds) These are what I added this year. You can add any other dry fruit of your choice too.
Cut them into little pieces and soak in rum/brandy for a month or even two! This is the planning bit :)
On the day of baking -
2 Nos - 9 inch round pans
300 gms - Flour
1/4 tspn - Salt
1 tspn - Baking Powder
1/4 Cup - Tutty-Fruity
250 gms - Unsalted Butter (Leave out the salt, if using salted butter)
300 gms - Brown Sugar
100 gms - Powdered White Sugar
3 Nos - Eggs
1 tspn - Date Syrup/ Honey
1 tspn - Vanilla Extract
1 tspn - Orange Rind Powder
1 tspn - Cinnamon Powder
1 tspn - Dry Ginger Powder
1 tspn - Nutmeg Powder
1/2 Cup - Milk
Method -
Sieve the flour, salt and baking powder thrice. Mix tutty fruity to this and stir well. Beat the butter and add the brown and white sugar, little by little, continuing to beat. You should get a smooth mixture. Now add, one egg at a time and keep on beating, till the egg is nicely incorporated. Now add the honey, vanilla extract, orange rind powder, cinnamon powder, dry ginger powder and nutmeg powder, one by one and mix well. Add the dry fruits now and give it a good mix. Make sure you have the muscle power to do this :) Add milk to this to get the right consistency, if you feel it is too dry that is. You can leave some milk if you want to add it after you have added the flour too. Now, add the flour mixture and fold into the batter.
Pour this into a pan and bake at 150 deg C for 45 - 50 minutes. This quantity is enough to fill two 9 inch round pans.
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