Christmas Fruit Cake

Baking a Christmas cake is a must for me. I simply love the aroma of this cake. The spices ans fruty flavour makes Christmas cake very special. No one can resist Christmas cake for sure. I can bake this cake in kilograms and don't get tried of baking. I must say this is a go to recipe. I sold somewhere around 10 kilograms of cakes to my colleagues and friends and they loved it.

I use a simple trick to make this amazing Christmas cake, first I weight the eggs (1 egg is approximately 50-60 grams). Then I take equal amount of sugar, flour or maida and also the butter, where as to make this cake more special and tasty I add some almond flour. Which makes this cake more rich in taste. It is best to use soaked dried fruits and but for this recipe. I usually soak it a month before I make this cake. I used orange juice to soak it. But you can use whiskey, Brandy, Rum or even wine to soak the dried fruits and nuts. And there is no hard and fast rule on how much dried fruits or nuts you need for soaking. It's completely upto you. One thing you need to make sure is that, you need to put orange juice or alcohol till the dried fruits and nuts are completely covered.


For this recipe I have used different spices like nutmeg, cinnamon, cardamom, dry ginger. And these are completely optional or you may add any 1. I like my chChristm cake with soice, may be because Christmas comes in winter and we like more ginger and spice in our daily foot as well. So let's quickly check out the video to make this Christmas Cake.

Here are the list of ingredients we need to make this super easy Christmas cake

Ingredients:

1/2 cup soaked dried fruits and nuts
180 grams of flour
3 eggs
180 grams of butter
180 grams of brown sugar
40 grams of almond flour
10-15 cashews
All spice
Ginger powder
1/2 cup orange juice
1 teaspoon of vanilla essence
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt

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Step by step instructions to make this Super easy yet delicious Christmas cake

Instructions

1. In bowl add butter and brown sugar and beat till butibecomes smooth and fluffy
2. Now add eggs, 1 at a time and beat the butter atleat for a minute
3. Next add 1 teaspoon of vanilla essence and beat for 1 more minute
4. Now add half cup of orange juice and mix well
5. Add baking powder, baking soda and salt to the flour and mix well
6. Next add almond flour to the flour mixture and mix well
7. Take 1/2 cup of soaked fruits and nuts and add to the flour mixture
8. Add the flour and fruits mixture to the wet ingredients and mix well 
9. Pour the batter in a greased and lined baking pan 
10. Bake @ pre heated 180 degrees Celsius for about 40-45 minutes
11. Do a toothpick test before removing the baking pan from the oven

Note:

• Use unsalted butter which is at room temperature. Never you salted and butter dorectly from the fridge
• Make sire the eggs are at room temperature
• You soaked fruits and nuts should also be at room temperature
• If you forgot to soak the fruits and nuts, no worries. Just soak for an hour and you will get almost same result
• Every oven is different,  read your oven manual carefully before baking any cake