Christmas Plum Cake

Ingredients list for Christmas Plum Cake

• ¼ cup Cashewnuts chopped
• ¼ cup Almonds chopped
• ¼ cup Raisins
• ¼ cup candied peel
• 2 cups Rum
• 225 grams Refined flour (maida)
• 8 grams Baking powder
• 250 grams Butter
• 250 grams brown sugar/jaggery
• 5 Eggs
• a few drops Vanilla essence
• 50 millilitres Milk

Method

1. Preheat the oven at 200˚C.
2. Soak the cashew nuts, almonds, raisins and candied peel in rum and let it stand for 48 hours.
3. Break eggs in a bowl and beat along with vanilla essence with an electric beater till ribbon consistency.
4. Cream together the butter and brown sugar in a large bowl, till fluffy.
5. Add beaten eggs and sieve together refined flour and baking powder into it. Add soaked dry fruits and alcohol and mix well by cut and fold method. Add milk and mix.
6. Pour the mixture into a silicon mould and keep in the preheated oven. Bake for 1 hour 15 minutes. Remove from heat and cool.
7. Demould and cut into pieces. Serve.

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