Hey everyone, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, kerala plum/fruit cake. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Step by Step Kerala Plum Cake / Christmas Fruit Cake Recipe. This Kerala plum cake recipe requires you to caramelise sugar into a thick sugar syrup. Don't be like me and worry about it, it's really not that hard, you just need to be careful while doing it.
Kerala Plum/Fruit Cake is one of the most favored of current trending meals on earth. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions every day. They are fine and they look wonderful. Kerala Plum/Fruit Cake is something which I’ve loved my entire life.
To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook kerala plum/fruit cake using 17 ingredients and 15 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Kerala Plum/Fruit Cake:
- Prepare 125 grams Butter, softened
- Get 110 grams Caster sugar
- Take 75 grams Sugar for caramel syrup
- Make ready 60 millilitres water Hot
- Make ready 2 numbers Egg white
- Take 2 numbers Egg yolk
- Take 150 grams Plain flour
- Make ready 1 teaspoon Baking powder
- Make ready 1/8 teaspoon Salt
- Get 1 teaspoon Vanilla essence
- Prepare 1 teaspoon Lime juice
- Take 1 teaspoon Pineapple jam
- Take 1 1/2 cups dried fruits Mixed, chopped
- Get 1/4 cup Cashew nuts, chopped (lightly roasted)
- Take 60 millilitres Dark rum
- Take 1/2 tablespoon Spice powder
- Get 1/2 teaspoon Orange peel, dried and powdered
The caramel syrup is called as black jack and is also referred to as black jack Christmas cake. This Christmas I bring this festive Plum Cake to you. The Jolly molly best time of the year is here, and so is this unique Christmas cake which is most commonly know as plum cakes. I get it a lot when a slight mention of my Kerala genes kicks in.
Instructions to make Kerala Plum/Fruit Cake:
- Preheat oven at 180 °C for 15 minutes. Line base and sides of a deep 20 cm round cake pan with baking paper.
- Beat egg white until peek, keep aside.
- Beat butter and sugar in a bowl with electric mixer until soft and creamy.
- Add egg yolk, one at a time and beat until well combined. Add vanilla essence and lime juice. Add cool caramel syrup and mix well.
- Add sifted flour,baking powder and salt mixture along with egg white and fold well.
- Finally, fold in mixed dried fruits, cashew nuts, pineapple jam, spice powder, dried and powdered orange peel mixture.
- Spread the cake mixture into prepared pan. Bake for around 40 minutes or until a skewer inserted the centre of the cake comes out clean. Cool in pan.
- NOTES - Brush top of hot cake with extra rum, if desired.
- For mixed fruits i used a combination of raisins, glaced cherries, candied orange and lemon peel. Chop all the fruits into small pieces and soak them in dark rum for a period of minimum 1 week or until absorbed.
- To avoid sinking, dust the soaked fruits with some sifted flour and baking powder mixture before using.
- To make caramel syrup, combine sugar and little water in a sauce pan. When the sugar melts and becomes dark brown add 60 ml hot water. Melt completely and let it come to room temperature.
- Spice powder is a combination of cloves, cardamom, cinnamon, nutmeg, and dry ginger. Grind all the spices to a fine powder.
- To make dried and powdered orange peel, wash and peel the oranges and cut the peels into thin slices and spread it in a tray and keep under the sun for 3- 4 days, grind into a fine powder.
- For measuring mixed dried fruits and cashewnut i used 250 ml measuring cup.
- Have all the ingredients at room temperature especially butter and egg. Sift together the flour,baking powder and salt.
Kerala Plum Cake or Christmas Fruit Cake is made with rum soaked dry fruits and caramelized sugar syrup and spices. A very traditional cake for Christmas. I am very traditional when it comes to Christmas, I soak my dry fruits in rum by early November, get my wine ready, and make batches of cookies and hot chocolate mix as gifts for friends. Christmas is all about sharing. #ruchikrandhap #keralaplumcake #christmascake #keralarecipes Rich, dark and moist, this intensely flavourful cake with dried fruit & nuts is worth the effort. Learn how to make rich and delicious Kerala Fruit Cake.
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