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Christmas Cake
Ingredients
Refined Flour (maida) 1½ cups
Baking Powder 1½ tsp.
Cinnamon Powder 1 tsp
Lemon Rind ¼ tsp
Almonds 10-12
Tutti Frutti 3 tbsps
Glazed Cherries 12-15
Walnuts (shelled) ¼ cup
Mixed Peels 4 tbsps
Cashewnuts 8-10
Raisins (kishmish) 25-30
Currants 15-20
Rum ½ cup
Eggs 6
Vanilla Essence a few drops
Butter(Dalda) 1½ cups
Brown Sugar 1½ cups
Honey 1 tbsp
Oil(Dalda) for greasing
Method:
- Sieve flour with cinnamon powder and
baking powder. Add lemon rind to it and mix. Keep it aside.
- Blanch the almonds. Chop tutti frutti,
glazed cherries, walnuts, mixed peels, almonds and cashewnuts. Wash
the raisins and currants and pat them dry.
- Soak tutti frutti, raisins, currants,
cherries, walnuts, mixed peels, almonds and cashewnuts in rum.
- Break eggs and beat them with vanilla
essence.
- Preheat the oven to 180° C.
- Cream butter with one and a quarter
cups of brown sugar till it is soft and light in colour. Add honey and
mix.
- Make caramel with the remaining brown
sugar and a little water.
- Mix the beaten eggs with the creamed
butter and sugar and mix gently. Add the flour mixture and mix with a
light hand.
- Strain the caramel into the soaked
fruits and mix well. Add it to the cake batter and mix gently.
- Grease a cake tin with oil and pour
the batter in it.
- Bake at 180° C for thirty minutes in
pre heated oven. Reduce the temperature to 160° C and bake further for
forty-five minutes.
- Before frosting take it out of the
oven and leave it on a rack to cool.
- Cut into slices and serve.
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