X - Xmas Cake
Earthy Xmas fruit cake with the goodness of nuts and dried fruits.
Ingredients
For Soaking
- 1/2 cup orange juice / apple juice
- 1/4 cup dates chopped
- 1/4 cup almonds & cashews chopped
- 2-3 glazed cherries chopped
- 1/2 tbsp tutti fruity
- 1/2 tbsp candied peel
- 1/4 cup currants & raisins
- 1/4 cup brown sugar
Dry Ingredients
- 1 cup all purpose flour
- Pinch salt
- 1/4 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp coffee
- Pinch cinnamon
- 1/4 cup brown sugar
Wet Ingredients
- 3 tbsp oil
- 1 tbsp curd +1 tbsp water
- 1/4 cup milk
- 1 tsp vanilla essence
Instructions
For Soaking
- Add sugar to the juice, stir a couple of times and then add rest of the ingredients under soaking. Soak all ingredients overnight.
Next Day
- Mix all dry ingredients.
- Mix all wet ingredients
- Mix the wet ingredients with the soaked ingredients.
- Now add in the dry ingredients gradually.
- Grease and line a baking tin.
- Pour the batter in the tin and bake at 180 degrees C for 40-45 minutes or till a skewer comes out clean.
- Let cool before slicing the cake.
Notes
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