Steps to Make Speedy Plum Cake/Rich Fruit Cake

Hello everybody, it is Louise, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, plum cake/rich fruit cake. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

How to make rich plum cake / Christmas fruitcake: To make the fruitcake, the first step involves chopping up the dried fruits. Whole Wheat Christmas Plum Cake For detailed recipe and measurements, scroll to the bottom of the page. This fruit cake has black grapes (dark raisins), golden raisins (called as Kishmish locally), currants and dried apricots. The fruits you use are more of a personal choice.

Plum Cake/Rich Fruit Cake is one of the most popular of recent trending meals on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. They are nice and they look fantastic. Plum Cake/Rich Fruit Cake is something which I have loved my whole life.

To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook plum cake/rich fruit cake using 14 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Plum Cake/Rich Fruit Cake:

1. Get 2 cups all purpose flour
2. Get 100 g softened butter
3. Make ready 3 whole eggs
4. Prepare 200 g brown sugar
5. Take 1 tsp baking powder
6. Take 1 tsp Vanilla essence
7. Get 1 orange juice
8. Make ready 1 tsp choco powder
9. Get 1 tsp orange zest
10. Make ready 1 tbsp Chopped almonds
11. Prepare 1 tbsp Chopped cashews
12. Prepare as needed Dried fruits (cranberries, golden raisins, dark raisins, dates)
13. Prepare 1 tspn nutmeg and cinnamon powder
14. Take 1/2 tsp Salt

Other times, comfort foods can be very nutritious and good for us to eat. Christmas Cake/Rich Fruit and Nut Cake/Plum Cake. As Christmas is around the corner ,we have come to the last part of the preparation, baking The Christmas Cake/ Rich Fruit and Nut Cake/Plum Cake. Yes, Dry fruits well soaked for more than a month and Home made Sticky Dark Treacle are ready to mix in the cake batter.

Steps to make Plum Cake/Rich Fruit Cake:

1. Mixed all dried fruits (dates, raisins, berries) together and soak it with 1cup of orange juice for 2 hours.
2. Grease a cake tin with butter. Line a parchment sheet on all the sides of the tin.
3. Preheat oven at 170°c
4. Take softened butter, brown sugar, and eggs and beat it till light and fluffy with the help of electric beater.
5. Then add vanilla essence, orange zest and salt and beat it again for 1min.
6. Now add flour, baking powder, choco powder, nutmeg and cinnamon powder, add all this dry ingredients in 2-3 batches and mixed it with a spatula using cut and fold method.
7. Then add all soaked dry fruits and mix it well. Add remaining orange juice also.
8. Add chopped almonds, cashews and mix it.
9. Dense batter is ready and transfer it to the baking tin and bake it 170°c for 50-55 minutes.
10. Allow it to cool down and the scrumptious delicious Plum Cake is ready.

As Christmas is around the corner ,we have come to the last part of the preparation, baking The Christmas Cake/ Rich Fruit and Nut Cake/Plum Cake. Yes, Dry fruits well soaked for more than a month and Home made Sticky Dark Treacle are ready to mix in the cake batter. A common misunderstanding of the cake going by its name is it being made of the fruit Plum, but actually it refers to its plumped ingredients; the dry fruits which swell up over its soaking period. The surface will be a deep brown. Baking time may vary depending on the oven size and type.

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