Hello everybody, it is Louise, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, plum cake/rich fruit cake. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Clean the dry fruits and get rid of any stems. The trick with fruit cakes is to chop the dried fruits. Take time to chop the apricots and rough chop the raisins and black grapes.
Plum Cake/Rich Fruit Cake is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. They are nice and they look fantastic. Plum Cake/Rich Fruit Cake is something that I have loved my whole life.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook plum cake/rich fruit cake using 14 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Plum Cake/Rich Fruit Cake:
- Get 2 cups all purpose flour
- Get 100 g softened butter
- Take 3 whole eggs
- Get 200 g brown sugar
- Get 1 tsp baking powder
- Get 1 tsp Vanilla essence
- Take 1 orange juice
- Get 1 tsp choco powder
- Prepare 1 tsp orange zest
- Get 1 tbsp Chopped almonds
- Prepare 1 tbsp Chopped cashews
- Get as needed Dried fruits (cranberries, golden raisins, dark raisins, dates)
- Make ready 1 tspn nutmeg and cinnamon powder
- Get 1/2 tsp Salt
I halved the quantity of the ingredients, as I only wanted one cake. The texture of the cake is moist and the taste is really good. But alas all the fruit sank to the bottom. When you get plum cake online, you will experience a perfect blend of cocoa powder, cinnamon powder, and essence.
Steps to make Plum Cake/Rich Fruit Cake:
- Mixed all dried fruits (dates, raisins, berries) together and soak it with 1cup of orange juice for 2 hours.
- Grease a cake tin with butter. Line a parchment sheet on all the sides of the tin.
- Preheat oven at 170°c
- Take softened butter, brown sugar, and eggs and beat it till light and fluffy with the help of electric beater.
- Then add vanilla essence, orange zest and salt and beat it again for 1min.
- Now add flour, baking powder, choco powder, nutmeg and cinnamon powder, add all this dry ingredients in 2-3 batches and mixed it with a spatula using cut and fold method.
- Then add all soaked dry fruits and mix it well. Add remaining orange juice also.
- Add chopped almonds, cashews and mix it.
- Dense batter is ready and transfer it to the baking tin and bake it 170°c for 50-55 minutes.
- Allow it to cool down and the scrumptious delicious Plum Cake is ready.
Apart from its wonderful flavour and cocoa content, it helps in maintaining blood circulation of the body. Further, it reduces the ailments caused due to circulatory system issues such as thickening of blood, heart valve problems, etc. The success of this deliciously rich, moist cake lies in soaking the dried mixed fruits in strong dark tea the evening before; the tea adds a subtle depth of flavor to the cake. For this reason, you will need a little planning to allow time to soak the fruits. It is worth it though, so don't be put off.
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