Recipes - Christmas Fruit Cake
- Saritha Grace Crasta
- Kallianpur, Kuwait
Ingredients:
300 Gms. maida
200 gm Sugar(powder)
180 gm Butter
4 Big eggs
20 gm Coca
1 tsp Baking powder
1 tsp Soda Bicarbonate
1 tsp Vanilla essence
15 gm Garam Masala (cloves,cinnamon, cardamom powder)
250 gm Nuts (cashew, almond chopped, black-currents, raisins, mixed peel)
Wine two cups ( optional )
¼ tsp. salt
FOR SUGAR CARAMEL:
7 tbp sugar
½ cup water
Method:
Sift maida, salt, baking powder, soda bicarbonate and coca. In a pan put 7 tbp. of sugar keep it on a low fire . When the sugar turns into caramel add ½ cup of water and allow it to cool. Soak the nuts in the wine 1 day before (optional) or otherwise add 1tbp of maida to the nuts and mix well before adding nuts to the cake. Pre heat the oven at 180 degrees. Melt butter, add sugar, add well beaten eggs , caramel , maida and finally nuts along with garam masala and fold gently. Put it in a greased pan and bake for 50-55 minutes.