Yields:
1 Serving
Difficulty: Medium
Prep Time: 30 Mins
Cook Time:
55 Mins
Total Time:
1 Hr 25 Mins
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Christmas Fruit Cake
- Prep Time: 30 mins
- Cook Time: 55 mins
- Total Time: 1 hour 25 minutes
Description
Christmas Fruit Cake is very tasty recipe and it is very easy to prepare it. It is super delicious and it is a very flavorful recipe.
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Ingredients
Soaking the fruits
- 1 cup Orange juice
- ½ cup Water
- 1 cup Tutti frutti
- ½ cup Raisins
- ¼ cup Dried apricots
- ¼ cup Dried cranberries
- ½ cup Dates
Cake
- 1½ cup Maida
- ¼ cup Jaggery/Brown sugar
- ¼ tsp Cinnamon powder
- ¼ tsp Grated ginger
- ½ tsp Lemon zest
- 1½ tsp Baking powder
- 2 Eggs
- ½ cup Vegetable oil
- 1 tsp Vanilla essence
- 6 to 7 Almonds – chopped into half
- 6 to 7 Walnuts – chopped into half
- 7 to 8 Cashewnuts – chopped into half
Instructions
- In a saucepan add water, orange juice, tutti frutti, raisins, dried apricots, dried cranberries and dates.
- Cook this for 8 to 10 minutes on low heat till the dry fruits absorb all the juices.
- Keep it aside.
- Now let’s get started with the cake.
- Preheat the oven at 160 degrees Celsius.
- Now sieve the maida, baking powder and cinnamon powder and keep it aside.
- In a bowl crack the eggs, add oil and jaggery powder.
- Whisk them all together for 7 to 8 minutes with a spatula.
- Now add all the dry ingredients which we had sieved earlier i.e. maida, baking powder and cinnamon powder.
- Fold them in gently along with lemon zest, grated ginger and vanilla essence.
- Also fold in the soaked dry fruits.
- Add the chopped nuts as well at this stage.
- Grease a cake tin and transfer the cake mixture to it.
- Bake the cake at 160 degrees C for 45 to 50 minutes or till a skewer comes out clean.
Keywords: chirstmas fruit cake
