Hey everyone, it’s John, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, christmas plum cake. One of my favorites. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Christmas Plum Cake is one of the most popular of recent trending foods in the world. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions every day. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Christmas Plum Cake is something which I’ve loved my whole life.
To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook christmas plum cake using 38 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Christmas Plum Cake:
- Get 1 cup maida
- Make ready 1/4cup any fruit juice
- Make ready 1/4 tsp cinnamon powder
- Prepare 1/2 tsp cardamom powder
- Take 1 tsp baking powder
- Get 1/2 tsp baking soda
- Make ready 2 tsp cornflour
- Get 2 tbsp milk powder
- Get 1/4 tsp ginger powder
- Prepare 1/2 cup milk
- Get 1 tsp vinegar
- Take 1/4cup powdered/castor sugar
- Take 2 tbsp tooti-frooti
- Make ready 2 tbsp chopped dates
- Make ready 2 tbsp chopped anjeer
- Make ready 1/4 cup mixed fruits (dried)
- Take 1/4 cup mixed dry fruits
- Take 1 tbsp chopped pistachios
- Prepare 1 tbsp black raisins
- Take 1 tbsp brown raisins
- Take 7-8 cherries
- Take For caramel syrup :
- Take 1 tbsp sugar + 5 tbsp water
- Make ready 5-6 kesar strands
- Take 1/4cup melted butter or oil (salted/unsalted)
- Make ready 1 tsp vanilla essence
- Take For mixed fruits (dried & chopped)
- Make ready as required Prunes
- Take as required Cherries/berries
- Make ready 1 Kiwi
- Make ready 1 Mango
- Get As required Papaya
- Get as required Pineapple
- Take For mixed dry fruits (chopped)
- Make ready As needed- Walnut
- Take as needed Almonds
- Prepare as required Kaaju
- Take as needed Pista
Steps to make Christmas Plum Cake:
- In a bowl take the fruit juice & add all the dry fruits & mixed dried fruits. Mix everything well and let it soak it for at least 3 to 4 hours. You can even used "Frooti" as a substitute for fruit juice.
- Now pour milk in a small bowl & add vinegar to it. Mix it and keep it aside. Your buttermilk would be ready in some time.
- Now for caramel syrup, take a pan & add 1 tbsp of sugar & 1 tbsp of water to it. Let it boil on a low flame until it turs golden brown in colour. Now add 4 tbsp of warm water to it & mix it well with the caramel sauce. Boil it once. Your caramel syrup is now ready. Then let it cool down completely.
- Now in the dried mixed fruits & nuts, soaked in orange juice, add 1/4th cup of powdered sugar & mix everything well. Then add caramel syrup into it then again give it a mix.
- Now keep the strainer over it & add maida, baking powder, baking soda, milk powder, cornflour, cinnamon powder, cardomom powder, ginger powder, kesar strands & strain everything. Then give everything a good mix.
- Now slowly and gradually add previously prepared buttermilk to it. Mix everything well with fold and cut method. Then add melted butter to it & mix it well with the batter.
- Finally add vanilla essence to it & give everything a good mix.
- Now for pre-heating, take a kadai for pre-heating with it's base covered with salt and a stand over it. Cover it and pre-heat the kadai for 3 mins on high flame and then 7 to 8 mins. on medium flame.
- Now grease a 6 to 7 inch cake tin and add the batter into it. Dab it twice so that the air bubbles gets off. Now place it over the stand & immediately cover the kadai & bake it on a low flame for about 60 to 65 mins.
- After 1 hour of baking, check it by inserting a toothpick, if it comes out clean then your cake is done. If not you can keep it for 5 to 10 mins more.
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