With the Festivity around the corner.. Cold winters needs spiced fruit cake to warm it.. Whats say!!! This is An Egg less fruit Cake... Ingredients : for soaking in the rum/orange juice: ½ cup raisins ½ cup chopped cashews ¼ cup chopped citrus peels 8-9 apricots (dry or fresh) ½ cup chopped dates ¼ cup tutti fruity 9-10 glazed cherries, sliced 1 cup rum or 1 cup orange juice or apple juice. for the main cake batter 1 and ½ cup all purpose flour/maida ¾ cup whole wheat flour 1 and ½ cup demerara sugar or brown sugar or powdered sugar 1 cup oil or melted butter 1 cup milk 2 tbsp apple cider or regular vinegar 1 tsp baking soda ½ tsp baking powder 1 tsp vanilla extract the spice mix: 1 inch or 1.5 inches cinnamon 2 cloves 2 cardamom 2 all spice a generous pinch or two of grated nutmeg Instructions soaking the dryfruits: firstly chop all the dry fruits and take them in a bowl or a jar. pour rum in the bowl or jar. cover and let the dry fruits soak for 12 or 24 hours. in between stir or shake so that all the dry fruits get soaked properly. preparing the cake: in a dry grinder, grind the whole spices. keep aside. prepare a loaf pan or a round cake pan. i used a 6.5 inches round pan. grease the cake pan lightly with oil. you can also line the pan with butter paper. preheat the oven to 180 degrees C. sieve the flours, baking powder and the powdered spice mix. add oil and demerara sugar and mix well. keep some sliced cherries for adding on top of the cake. mix some flour with the cherries and keep aside. add the soaked dry fruits and rum. stir and mix uniformly. in a bowl or mug add soy milk. now add apple cider and stir gently. add baking soda and stir. add this frothing mixture to the cake batter. add vanilla extract. stir and mix quickly but uniformly. pour in the cake pan. shake the pan lightly so that the cake is spread evenly throughout the whole pan. place the sliced cherries on the top. bake in the preheated oven for 180 degrees C for 1:45 minutes or more or less depending on your oven.
Posted on: Tue, 02 Dec 2014 04:56:34 +0000
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