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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 recent trending foods in the world. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions daily. Kerala Plum/Fruit Cake is something that I have loved my entire life. They are fine and they look fantastic.
To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook kerala plum/fruit cake using 17 ingredients and 15 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Kerala Plum/Fruit Cake:
- Take Butter, softened
- Make ready Caster sugar
- Make ready Sugar for caramel syrup
- Get water Hot
- Take numbers Egg white
- Get numbers Egg yolk
- Make ready Plain flour
- Prepare Baking powder
- Prepare Salt
- Get Vanilla essence
- Get Lime juice
- Prepare Pineapple jam
- Get dried fruits Mixed, chopped
- Get Cashew nuts, chopped (lightly roasted)
- Take Dark rum
- Take Spice powder
- Make ready Orange peel, dried and powdered
I get it a lot when a slight mention of my Kerala genes kicks in. Learn how to make rich and delicious Kerala Fruit Cake. Similar to the fruit cake which the Westerners make during this time. Separate egg yolks from the whites.
Steps 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.
Christmas Fruit Cake (Step by Step Pics) "WISHING ALL MY READERS & FRIENDS A MERRY CHRISTMAS'' Christmas is a perfect time for all bakes and cakes hit the most of all. Kerala Plum cake is one recipe is which I always miss after coming to US. I always had my mom's version of cake and liked it the most. Here are the other Christmas fruit cake / Plum cake on the site. Kerala christmas cake, Xmas plum cake Whole Wheat Christmas Plum Cake.
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