Easiest Way to Make Ultimate Christmas Plum Cake

Christmas Plum Cake.

You can cook Christmas Plum Cake using 17 ingredients and 16 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Christmas Plum Cake

1. You need 1 1/2 Cups of Refined Flour.
2. Prepare 200 gm of Condensed Milk.
3. Prepare 1/4 cup of Brown Sugar.
4. It's 1/2 Cup of Orange Juice.
5. You need 3/4 cup of hot water.
6. It's 50 gm of butter.
7. Prepare 250 gm of mixed dried nuts.
8. Prepare as needed of Tutti frutti.
9. Prepare 1 Tsp of Orange Zest.
10. It's 1 of star anise.
11. You need 1 tsp of baking powder.
12. Prepare 1/2 tsp of baking soda.
13. It's 1/4 Tsp of cake gel.
14. Prepare Pinch of nutmeg.
15. You need 2 pinches of cinnamon powder.
16. It's 2 pinches of Ginger powder.
17. You need 1/2 cup of soda.

Christmas Plum Cake step by step

1. In a sauce pan, add mixed dried fruits of your choice along with Star Anise. Add orange juice and hot water in it..
2. Bring to boil and Let it simmer at low medium flame for 5 minutes and then switch off the gas..
3. Let it cool down completely. Remove star anise..
4. This method will ensure that dried fruits are soft and juicy..
5. Now take two mixing bowl and sieve the flour thrice to incorporate air into it..
6. Add nutmeg, cinnamon, ginger powder, baking powder and baking soda. Dry mix..
7. In another bowl, gather liquid ingredients. Add milkmaid, butter and sugar. Beat lightly and make smooth consistency batter..
8. Add cooled down nuts cooked earlier in it..
9. Add orange zest and mix..
10. Combine dry and wet ingredients together and add cake gel. Gently cut and fold..
11. Lastly add soda. Cut and fold. Dont overmix else cake will be dense..
12. Line the cake tin with butter paper and pour the batter in it..
13. Tap lightly..
14. Preheat the oven for 15 mins at 160 17..
15. Bake at middle rack for 60 minutes minimum at 160 degree.
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