Step-by-Step Guide to Make Super Quick Homemade Christmas Fruit & Walnut Cake

Hello everybody, it is Brad, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, christmas fruit & walnut cake. One of my favorites. This time, I will make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

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To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook christmas fruit & walnut cake using 27 ingredients and 29 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Christmas Fruit & Walnut Cake:

1. Prepare For soaking-
2. Prepare fruit juice (I used fresh orange juice)
3. Prepare tutti frutti
4. Prepare golden raisins
5. Prepare black currants
6. Take cranberries
7. Prepare dried and candied assorted fruits (Kiwi, Pineapple, Orange)
8. Take soft dates
9. Take For the dry mix-
10. Prepare whole wheat flour
11. Prepare cornflour
12. Make ready baking powder
13. Get baking soda
14. Make ready cinnamon powder
15. Prepare ginger powder
16. Get milk powder
17. Take nutmeg (optional)
18. Get Others-
19. Prepare milk + 1 tsp vinegar/ lime juice, for the buttermilk
20. Take roasted California walnuts, chopped
21. Make ready sugar +1 tbsp water + 4 tbsp water, for the caramel syrup
22. Prepare brown sugar
23. Take Some Orange zest
24. Get vanilla essence
25. Get melted butter
26. Take Some milk, for brushing
27. Take Icing sugar, for dusting on top

Instructions to make Christmas Fruit & Walnut Cake:

1. Start with soaking the fruits into the juice. Mix them all really well and keep aside for an hour.
2. For the dry mix, sieve everything (all the dry mix ingredients) together and keep aside.
3. For the buttermilk, mix in the vinegar/ lime juice into the milk and set aside for exactly 10 minutes.
4. Now, take the chopped walnuts and add ½ tsp of the dry mix to it. Keep it aside too.
5. For the caramel syrup, heat sugar and 1 tbsp water in a pan. Cook on a low flame with continuous stirring until the mixture turns golden.
6. Once it turns golden, add in 4 tbsp of water and cook until the solution becomes uniform.
7. Remove and keep aside to cool.
8. Now, to make the cake batter, take a large mixing bowl. Add the soaked fruits, caramel syrup, brown sugar, orange zest and mix well.
9. Add the prepared buttermilk, and give a good mix.
10. Now, add in the dry mix in two parts. Add the first half and mix very gently. DO NOT OVER MIX.
11. Add the balance dry mix and melted butter. Again, give a gentle mix.
12. Lastly, add the walnuts and mix once again.
13. Transfer the batter into a baking tin (lined with parchment paper) and bake at 170 degrees Celsius for 45- 50 minutes in a preheated oven.
14. Remove and brush with some milk. This prevents the cake from drying.
15. Cover with a muslin cloth and let it cool in the baking tin itself for 10 minutes
16. After 10 minutes, unmould and cool it further on a wire rack. This prevents soggy bottoms.
17. Once cooled completely, dust with some icing sugar on top.
18. Garnish, slice and serve.
19. Enjoyyyy!
20. Vishesh Tippani- Sieving is important as it ensures that no lumps remain. It also incorporates air into the dry mix.
21. Keep the buttermilk aside for exactly 10 minutes.
22. Coating the nuts with some flour before adding them to the batter, prevents them from sinking to the bottom of the cake.
23. Whenever zesting the orange or any other citrus peel, make sure to just grate thrice at one spot. Grating more will add in the bitter white peel too.
24. DO NOT OVERMIX THE BATTER. It will make your cake dense.
25. Do not add the dry mix all at once.
26. Always make sure to pre-heat your over. It ensures uniform baking of your cake.
27. Always, grease and dust your cake tin. It prevents your cake from sticking to the pan. you can also line it with a parchment paper.
28. Brushing the cake top with some milk after baking prevents it from drying.
29. Cooling on a wire rack is important as it prevents soggy bottoms.

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