Christmas Fruit Cake

Christmas Fruit Cake 

Chritmas fruit cake is delicious, moist, super soft, aromatic cake. I'm sure while baking this cake...the flavours will definitely invite your neighbour's to knock the door.

This is an eggfree, butter milk cake with dried fruits and nuts soaked in tea decoration.

Soaking dried fruits 

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Ingredients:

Dried fruits - 120 gms (mix of berries, raisins, appricot, glaze cherries, dried gooseberry, black raisins, tutti frutti.

Nuts - 30 gms (cashew, almond, walnuts)

Whole wheat flour - 1+1/4 cup (140 gms)

Baking powder - 1/2 tsp

Buttermilk - 1/4 cup

Oil  - 1/3 cup

Brown sugar - 120 gms

Tea decoration - 1/2 cup

Orange zest - 1/4 tsp

Lemon zest - 1/4 tsp

Vanilla essence - 1/2 tsp

Spices - cinnamon, cardamom, clove, mace ( yo can add while making tea decoration / as. Powder while mixing the batter.

Method

1 cup = 120 gms (flour)

# Sieve whole wheat flour and baking powder for 3-4 times.

# Soak dried fruits and nuts in tea decoration for over night / 2-3 hrs. 

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# Put the soaked dried fruits and nuts in siever for 1-2 hrs.

# Mix oil and brown sugar. Add butter milk, soaked dried fruits and nuts, lemon zest, orange zest, vannila essence.

# Preheat microwave convection oven at 150'c.

# Mix sieved flour in two batches.

#Grease baking tin with oil/ butter.

# Pour the cake batter.

#Bake at 150'c for 1 hr / until the skewer inserted comes out clean.

# Demold after 5-10 minutes.

Allow it to cool down completely on a wire rack.

Slice the Cake and enjoy with family and friends.

Do try and provide your comments.

Thank you!