Eggless Christmas Fruit Cake | Eggless Christmas Fruit Cake Recipe

Last year I posted Plum cake with eggs. Last year itself I tried Eggless Christmas Fruit cake. But I had no time to post. It came out very well and the taste was very good. Chopping the dried fruits is only the difficult thing. But making fruit cake is very easy. I already uploaded soaking of dried fruits. I will soon upload green apple sauce and how to make caramel syrup.
Now let us see how to make Eggless Christmas Fruit Cake

Ingredients:

• Nuts:
• Cashew -25 gms
• Almond – 25 gms
• Walnut – 25 gms

• For Spice Powder:
• Nutmeg – 1
• Cloves – 10
• Cinnamon 1 inch piece – 5.

• Dried Fruits:
• Black dates (seedless) – 100 gms
• Cherry – 100 gms
• Tutti frutti – 100 gms
• Black grapes – 100 gms
• Dry sweet ginger – 50 gms
• Sultana – 50 gms
• Orange juice – 200 ml
• Orange marmalade – 3 tablsp
• Zest of lemon -1
• Zest of orange – 1

• For Caramel Syrup:
• Sugar – 2 tsp
• Water – 3 tablsp
• For cake:
• Maida – 180 gms (1 ½ cup)
• Butter – 110 gms
• Brown sugar – 110 gms
• Chopped nuts – 75 gms
• Soaked fruits – 500 gms
• Green apple sauce ½ cup
• Caramel syrup – ¼ cup
• Spice powder – 1 tsp
• Baking powder – ½ tsp
• Baking soda – ½ tsp
• Milk – ¼ cup
• Salt – ¼ tsp

Method:

Sift Maida, Baking powder, baking soda and salt twice. Add butter and brown sugar in a bowl and whisk till frothy. Add apple sauce and caramel syrup and stir. Add soaked dried fruits and chopped nuts. Add spice powder and mix it well with spatula. Add maida and mix without lumps. Add milk and mix. Grease baking tray with butter and dust it with flour. Add cake batter three fourth in the greased tray. Pre heat oven to 150 degree. Bake 45 to 50 minutes or insert the toothpick in the centre of the cake, if it comes out clean then the cake is done.

Note:
Always use fresh baking powder for good result.
Don’t add baking powder more or else then the cake will break.
Baking time may vary oven to oven. So adjust and bake.
For caramel syrup you can use 2 tsp sugar and 3 tablsp water.
Instead of marmalade, you can use candied orange peels also.
Instead of adding apple sauce you can cook one medium size potato, mash it well and add also.
Spice powder: Nutmeg 1, cloves 10, Cinnamon 1 inch piece 5. Dry roast slightly and powder it.