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Eggless Christmas Fruit Cake Recipe | Plum Cake

Posted on December 12, 2020 Category: Christmas Recipes, Eggless Baked Goodies

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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.

 

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Plum Cake Recipe

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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

 

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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.
Eggless Christmas Fruit Cake Recipe Steps1
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).
Eggless Christmas Fruit Cake Recipe Steps2
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.
Eggless Christmas Fruit Cake Recipe Steps3
4. Once the mixture cools add curd, spice powder, vanilla essence, mashed potato, and mix it gently.
Plum Cake Steps4
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.
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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.
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Enjoy this delicious Eggless Christmas fruit cake recipe.

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Plum Cake Recipe

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  1. Nava K

    December 23, 2016 at 10:43 am

    I see its rich fullness. This is the perfect way to Christmas joy.

    Reply
    • Priya Santhamohan

      January 25, 2017 at 7:36 pm

      Thanks Nava.

      Reply
  2. Sundari

    January 1, 2017 at 9:34 pm

    Yummy and flavourful cake!! Very well made!

    Reply
    • Priya Santhamohan

      January 25, 2017 at 7:37 pm

      Thanks Sundari.

      Reply
  3. swati pathak

    January 5, 2017 at 2:47 pm

    Perfectly baked…looks delicious. 🙂

    Reply
    • Priya Santhamohan

      January 25, 2017 at 7:36 pm

      Thanks Swati.

      Reply
  4. anju

    January 25, 2017 at 7:20 pm

    V nice.thanku
    You added baking soda two times in 3 and 5 point
    Can we use market one orange juice also

    Reply
    • Priya Santhamohan

      January 25, 2017 at 7:35 pm

      Hi, Anju you can use store bought orange juice also.The procedure calls for addition of baking soda in both steps,it is a must.

      Reply
  5. Sowmya

    April 13, 2017 at 12:08 pm

    Please bake this for me. I can smell it from here

    Reply

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