Hey everyone, it is Brad, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, plum cake merry christmas. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Plum cake merry christmas is one of the most popular of current trending meals on earth. It is appreciated by millions daily. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. Plum cake merry christmas is something which I have loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.
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To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have plum cake merry christmas using 19 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Plum cake merry christmas:
- Prepare 1 cup raisins
- Get 1 cup dried apricots chopped
- Prepare 1 cup figs chopped
- Take 1/2 cup dried ginger chopped
- Prepare 1/2 cup candied orange peel chopped
- Take 3/4 cup Brandy
- Prepare 380 gms flour
- Make ready 225 gms butter melted
- Prepare 1.5 tsps baking powder
- Prepare 1 tsp ground cinnamon
- Get 1/2 tsp salt
- Make ready 300 gms breakfast sugar
- Prepare 4 large egg
- Prepare 150 gms packed brown sugar
- Make ready 2 tbsp molasses
- Make ready 1 tbsp vanilla extract
- Prepare 1 cup toasted walnuts
- Make ready 1/2 cup of apricot jam
- Get 1/2 cup of warm water
Traditional Christmas Plum Cake / Fruit Cake. Traditional Christmas Plum Cake / Fruit cake preparation is something I look forward to every year, and enjoy all the activities that goes into the preparation; right from the soaking, mixing of dry fruits, the elaborate baking procedures, the enchanting aroma that fills the entire house, the cutting of Christmas cake amidst all cheers and joy and. At first look, soaking fruits in orange juice and then adding more to the cake batter might seem a bit scary and a sweetness overload, but the nuts add the needed crunchiness & balance the sweetness. But if you wanted to try the alcoholic version, check out my Christmas Fruit Cake/Kerala Plum Cake.
Steps to make Plum cake merry christmas:
- Stir together dried fruit, candied ginger, candied orange peel and brandy. Keep overnight.
- Preheat oven to 180 degrees C. Butter two 9/5 inch loaf tins. Line them with butter paper. - In a bowl mix dry ingredients. Flour, baking powder, spices and salt. - In a mixer beat butter and both the sugars until smooth. Mix eggs one at a time followed by molasses and vanilla. Gradually add the flour mixture. Mix till smooth. Add the fruit mixture and walnuts.
- Divide the batter between the two tins. Bake for 1 hour and 35 minutes or till the tester comes out clean. Remove from oven and brush the top with more liquor. Remove and place on a wired rack. Heat the jam and water till smooth and glaze the top of the warmed cake.
- Important tips - - You can boil the dried fruit and candied fruit, strain and use immediately if running low on time. - - Brandy can be substituted with any other dark rum or orange flavoured liqueur. - - Use the best quality dried fruits available. - - Unglazed cakes can be shrink-wrapped and stored for up to one month in the fridge.
Now place the second layer of cake, drizzle some sugar syrup over the second layer. Crumb coat the layered cake with ganache. Apply dessicated coconut all over the cake. The ritual of Christmas is incomplete without a delicious plum cake. Include a mouth-watering plum cake in the Christmas party.
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