Hello everybody, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, plum cake merry christmas. One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
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Their plum cake is very popular and they make thousands at this time of the year. Amma had the recipe so I wanted to share it in time for Christmas. This fruit cake recipe doesn't need you to soak the dry fruits in advance and it's alcohol-free so you can make the cake instantly just before you need it.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have plum cake merry christmas using 19 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Plum cake merry christmas:
- Prepare 1 cup raisins
- Prepare 1 cup dried apricots chopped
- Get 1 cup figs chopped
- Make ready 1/2 cup dried ginger chopped
- Prepare 1/2 cup candied orange peel chopped
- Take 3/4 cup Brandy
- Prepare 380 gms flour
- Make ready 225 gms butter melted
- Prepare 1.5 tsps baking powder
- Prepare 1 tsp ground cinnamon
- Take 1/2 tsp salt
- Take 300 gms breakfast sugar
- Take 4 large egg
- Prepare 150 gms packed brown sugar
- Make ready 2 tbsp molasses
- Make ready 1 tbsp vanilla extract
- Prepare 1 cup toasted walnuts
- Take 1/2 cup of apricot jam
- Make ready 1/2 cup of warm water
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Steps to make Plum cake merry christmas:
- Stir together dried fruit, candied ginger, candied orange peel and brandy. Keep overnight.
- Preheat oven to 180 degrees C. Butter two 9/5 inch loaf tins. Line them with butter paper. In a bowl mix dry ingredients. Flour, baking powder, spices and salt. In a mixer beat butter and both the sugars until smooth. Mix eggs one at a time followed by molasses and vanilla. Gradually add the flour mixture. Mix till smooth. Add the fruit mixture and walnuts.
- Divide the batter between the two tins. Bake for 1 hour and 35 minutes or till the tester comes out clean. Remove from oven and brush the top with more liquor. Remove and place on a wired rack. Heat the jam and water till smooth and glaze the top of the warmed cake.
- Important tips
You can boil the dried fruit and candied fruit, strain and use immediately if running low on time.
Brandy can be substituted with any other dark rum or orange flavoured liqueur.
Use the best quality dried fruits available.
Unglazed cakes can be shrink-wrapped and stored for up to one month in the fridge.
Christmas Cooking: Treat Your Taste Buds To A Delectable Pudding & Plum Cake. This Plum cake is a recipe I have been following for years and is now a foolproof recipe that I turn to every Christmas. For best results, make it in advance and store it in a dark cool place for the flavours to deepen. You can either make it for Christmas or slice it and store it as a tea time treat or a snack. Christmas is around the corner and this year I made up my mind to bake the christmas fruit cake.
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