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The ingredients needed to cook Rum and fruits Christmas Cake:
- Take 1/2 Cup Dry fruits nuts and (increase qty as per taste)
- You need 180 Millilitres Rum
- Get 125 Grams Sugar
- You need 100 Grams Maida All purpose flour /
- Prepare 1/4 Cup Maida (for tossing fruits)
- Get 1/2 Cup vegetable oil Neutral tasting
- Use 1.5 Teaspoons vanilla essence
- Use 2 Eggs
- You need 1 Teaspoon Baking powder
- You need 1/4 Cup water
Instructions to make Rum and fruits Christmas Cake:
- Chop the fruits and nuts into small pieces and soak in rum for at least 15 days (mine was in for 2.5 months. also have used more quantity than 1/2 cup of nuts. Makes yours to your taste)
- Caramelize the sugar. Add the water and leave to cool
- Separate egg yolk and white and beat the white to form soft peaks and set aside. (not stiff peaks, from my experience the cakes rises with a hollow cavity on the top since the fruits in the cake make the batter heavier when beaten to stiff)
- Combine the yolks, essence and oil
- Add half the qty of flour and combine.
- Add the caramelized sugar and combine well. Add the remaining flour and combine
- Strain the fruits and reserve the rum
- Toss the fruits in 1/4 cup of maida so that the fruits have a thing coating on it. This prevents the fruits from sinking
- Add one or two tbsp of rum from the reserved rum to the cake batter with baking powder and mix.
- Now fold in the fruits with the cake batter. Once done fold in the egg-whits to this batter
- Prepare a greased, dusted and lined cake pan. Pour the batter into the cake pan (this makes a 7 to 9 inch cake). Set this into a dry pressure cooker on top of a small stand so that the base of the pan is not in contact with the base of the pressure cooker. Close without the whistle
- Bake on high flame for first 2 min, medium for next 5 min and on low for around 30-35 min. Cake is done When a skewer inserted in the center comes out clean
- Leave the cake to cool and drizzle the remaining rum on top of it
This beloved rum soaked fruit cake is highly revered and sought after during Christmas time as well as weddings and celebrations. If you've never had this cake, at first glance it may resemble that of a chocolate cake, but the deep dark color comes from the main ingredient- dried macerated fruits. Kerala Christmas Fruit Cake / Kerala Plum Cake. Hi Maria, My Christmas Cakes after cooling have a sticky top. I do brush my cakes with the rum I soaked the fruits in right after I remove the cake from the oven.
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