Christmas FruitCake – Christmas Sweets
The fruit cake was brought to India by the British and is now become a tradition especially during Christmas. In fact, for an East-Indian family, Christmas without a Christmas fruitcake is incomplete.
While the British feed their fruitcakes for weeks we in India don’t necessarily do that. We love our fresh cakes made with lots of fruit and nuts. This cake is moist and packed with lots of dried fruit and nuts.
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Equipment /Tools
- 8-inch round baking pan
- Kitchen scale
- Mixing bowl
- Wooden spoon
- Baking tray
- Oven
Ingredients
- 140 grams (1.12 cups) All-purpose flour plain flour
- 100 grams (0.6 cups) Semolina rawa
- 1 tsp (1 tsp) Baking Powder
- 1/2 tsp (1/2 tsp) Salt
- 200 grams (1 cups) Sugar
- 128 grams (0.56 cups) Butter unsalted
- 4 (4 ) Eggs large
- 250 grams (1.72 cups) Raisins
- 100 grams (0.89 cups) Black currants
- 150 ml (0.63 cups) Rum or orange juice
- 50 grams (0.43 cups) Walnuts chopped
- 50 grams (0.21 cups) Cashew nuts chopped
- 50 grams (0.29 cups) Glace Cherries chopped
- 2 tsp (2 tsp) Vanilla Extract
Optional
- 100 ml (0.42 cups) Rum for a boozy cake
Instructions
- Preheat the oven at 160 C / 320 F
- Grease and line the bottom and sides of an 8 inch round baking pan with parchment paper
- Soak the raisins, currants, cherries in the rum for 30 minutes.
- Combine the flour, salt, and baking powder – set aside.
- Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy
- Add eggs one at a time
- Followed by the vanilla extract
- Drain the fruits from the rum and add 2 tbsp of the flour – lightly toss them so they coat with flour.
- Add the flour and rum to the cake batter
- Followed by the fruits and nuts – combine well but do not over mix.
- Pour into the prepared baking pan and bake for about 20 to 30 minutes or until a skewer inserted in the center comes out clean
- Cool on a wire rack for 10 minutes then invert on a cooling rack to cool completely
For a boozy Christmas Cake
- Spread the optional rum over the cake as soon as it comes out of the oven.
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nelson rodrigues says
Baked this cake for Christmas using this awesome recipe. only needed to adjust the oven to 350 F and 45 mins.
Veena Azmanov says
Thank you, Nelson. Happy you enjoyed this recipe. Thanks for coming back to write this feedback..