Eggless Christmas Fruit Cake Recipe | Plum Cake

Eggless Christmas Fruit Cake Recipe / Plum Cake is usually light or dark brown in colour, have a crumbled texture, enriched with dry fruits and nuts. It is said dry fruit and nuts are soaked in rum/wine before six months itself and allowed to ferment. But this version I have given below is an eggless, non-alcoholic version. The cake is so flavourful and delicious, but because of my craziness to taste the cake, I cut the cake before cooling and it got crumbled. So I baked a second batch and ended up with rework. But I feel it’s worth trying it.

Wish you all a Merry Christmas.

Plum Cake Recipe

Eggless Christmas Fruit Cake Recipe | Plum Cake

Priya Santhamohan

Eggless Christmas Fruit Cake Recipe / Plum Cake is usually light or dark brown in colour, have crumbled texture, enriched with dry fruits and nuts.

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Prep Time 1 hr 22 mins

Total Time 1 hr 22 mins

Course Baking, Cake Recipes, Christmas Recipes

Cuisine World

Servings 8 Slices

Calories

Equipment

• OTG Oven / Microwave Oven
• Baking Tray

Ingredients

  

• 1 Cup All Purpose Flour / Maida
• 1 Cup Mixed nuts and Dry fruits (Cashews, almonds, raisins, tutti frutti, dates, cherry, citrus peels)
• 1 Cup Orange Juice
• ½ Cup Butter Link for Homemade Butter
• ½ to ¾ tbsp Honey
• ½ to ¾ Cup Demerara Sugar / Sugar / Brown sugar
• ½ Cup Water
• ½ + ⅛ tsp Baking soda / Cooking soda
• ¾ tsp Baking Powder
• 3 tbsp Curd Link for Homemade Curd
• ½ to ¾ tsp Spice powder (1" cinnamon,1 clove, 1 pinch nutmeg powder)
• 1 tsp Vanilla Essence
• ½ Cup Potato (boiled and mashed)

Instructions

 

• Chop nuts and dry fruits finely. Soak in orange juice for 1 day. Pressure cook potatoes and mash it well. Heat a pan add butter and soaked fruits and nuts.
• Add honey, sugar, water, and cook the fruits and nuts on low flame for about 10 minutes until the butter and sugar melts. (It cooks faster as we have already soaked in orange juice).
• The dry fruits and nuts would be cooked by now. Switch off the flame and add 1/8 tsp of baking soda. Now the mixture turns frothy and bubbles will appear.
• Once the mixture cools add curd, spice powder, vanilla essence, mashed potato, and mix it gently.
• Sieve maida, baking soda, baking powder once. Add the sieved maida to the wet mixture and fold it gently. Line the baking tray with butter paper/parchment paper. Then with a spoon pour the batter into the tray and slightly level it, shake the pan on the sides so that the air bubbles release. The batter should be thick but if it is too dry, add 1 tbsp of water or orange juice. If preferred place some dry fruits or nuts on top.
• Pre-heat oven at 180c for 10 minutes. Place the tray in the oven and bake for 45 minutes to 1 hour, or a toothpick inserted in the cake comes out clean. My cake was done in 40 minutes itself, as my tray was small. Allow it cool for 20 minutes and remove the butter paper. After 2 or 3 hours slice it.

  Enjoy this delicious Eggless Christmas fruit cake recipe.

Notes

Tips for Plum Cake

1. Mixed fruits and nuts choice is optional as per your preference.
2. If preferred fig, walnuts, almonds, pista can be used.
3. You can directly use the mixed fruits and nuts without soaking in orange juice. But as the nuts and fruits get fermented in the orange juice, it gives a wonderful flavor to the cake.
4. Apple juice/grape juice also can be used to soak the fruits and nuts.
5. Chop the fruits and nuts finely so it will be easy to slice.
6. Orange zest or at least orange juice is a must as the slight bitterness comes from it, else the cake taste only sweet.
7. Don't over mix the batter or over bake the cake, it will turn hard.
8. If the cake browns on top too much, then cover it with butter paper/aluminum foil, and then go ahead.
9. Allow the cake to cool completely for about 2 hours and then slice it.
10. Maida can be replaced with wheat flour also. But the plum cake turns a little dense.

Keyword Eggless Christmas Fruit Cake Recipe, Eggless Plum Cake

Eggless Christmas Fruit Cake Recipe

Method for Eggless Christmas Fruit Cake Recipe

1. Chop nuts and dry fruits finely. Soak in orange juice for 1 day. Pressure cook potatoes and mash them well. Heat a pan add butter and soaked fruits and nuts.

2. Add honey, sugar, water and cook the fruits and nuts on low flame for about 10 minutes until the butter and sugar melts. (It cooks faster as we have already soaked in orange juice).

3. The dry fruits and nuts would be cooked by now. Switch off the flame and add 1/8 tsp of baking soda. Now the mixture turns frothy and bubbles will appear.

4. Once the mixture cools add curd, spice powder, vanilla essence, mashed potato, and mix it gently.

5. Sieve maida, baking soda, baking powder once. Add the sieved maida to the wet mixture and fold it gently. Line the baking tray with butter paper/parchment paper. Then with a spoon pour the batter into the tray and slightly level it, shake the pan on the sides so that the air bubbles release. The batter should be thick but if it is too dry, add 1 tbsp of water or orange juice. If preferred place some dry fruits or nuts on top.

6. Pre-heat oven at 180c for 10 minutes. Place the tray in the oven and bake for 45 minutes to 1 hour, or a toothpick inserted in the cake comes out clean. My cake was done in 40 minutes itself, as my tray was small. Allow it cool for 20 minutes and remove the butter paper. After 2 or 3 hours slice it.

Enjoy this delicious Eggless Christmas fruit cake recipe.

Plum Cake Recipe