Christmas Cake/ Rich Fruit and Nut Cake/Plum Cake
Homemade Treacle, soaked dry fruits in wine are all dunked in to make this scrumptious Christmas Cake.
Ingredients
- 2 cup All Purpose Flour
- 0.9 cup Unsalted Butter
- 1 cup Brown Sugar
- 3 Egg
- ¾ cup Almond Flour
- 2.4 cup Soaked Dry Fruits
- ½ cup Chopped Cashew
- 4 tablespoon Home made Dark Treacle
- 1 teaspoon Cinnamon and clove powder
- ½ teaspoon Nutmeg powder
- 1 Orange juice and zest
- 1 Lemon Juice(from 1 whole lemon)
- 1 teaspoon Baking powder
- ½ teaspoon Salt
- 20 Blanched Almonds
- Red wine( for brushing and feeding the cake)
Instructions
- First strain the wine and weigh the Soaked Dry fruits in wine.
- Get ready with all the ingredients at room temperature.
- Sift All purpose flour,Baking powder and salt and keep aside.Add two tablespoon of flour from the measured flour to the soaked dry fruits and add chopped cashew nuts and mix evenly. This helps to evenly distribute in the cake and do not sink to the bottom of the cake.
- In a bowl add room temperature butter and cream in an electric hand beater until creamy.
- Add brown sugar and beat well until it is well combined.
- Add one egg at a time and beat well .
- Now add orange lemon juice,orange zest and spice mix and beat until it is well combined. The mixture look curdle but do not worry.
- Add Home made Dark Treacle to the mixture and beat for few seconds.
- Add dry fruits and chopped cashew and mix with a spatula.
- Preheat oven to 160 C . Now add in Almond flour and All purpose flour and mix gently using spatula by cut and fold method.
- Grease pan and line with parchment paper.Transfer the fruit and nut cake batter to the greased spring form pan and level the cake batter with a spatula and tap the pan on a kitchen counter. Decorate some blanched almonds as shown .
- Bake in a preheated oven for 60 mins at 160 °C. Reduce the oven temperature to 150 °C and continue to bake for about 60 to 70 mins until inserted skewer comes out clean with moist crumbs.
- Poke the Cake with wooden skewer and brush(feed) with wine on top and side of the cake.
- Rich Fruit and Nut Cake /Christmas Cake /Plum Cake is ready to devour. Bake this Cake for Christmas and New year.
Notes
You can use any Alcohol as per your taste. If want to avoid alcohol you can add orange juice or boil dry fruits. When cake top turns dark cover with an aluminium foil.
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