How to make Christmas Fruit cake-non-alcoholic, with-egg and eggless!
How to make Christmas Fruit Cake: non-alcoholic, with-eggs, and eggless versions!
Description
It’s Christmas time and so it’s also time to make Christmas Fruit Cake! Here I share with you a non-alcoholic version of fruit cake that tastes delicious! It’s studded with lots of fruits and nuts and can be made with or without eggs. That’s right, I will share recipes of both eggless Christmas Fruit Cake and with-egg Christmas fruit cake as well 🙂
Ingredients
For soaking
Dry ingredients
Nuts
Other ingredients
Instructions
- Add half a cup of orange juice and half a cup of water to a pan set in medium heat
- To that add all the dried fruits (listed in the ingredients section)
- Boil for approximately 5 min or until all the juice evaporates and the raisins turn plump
- Set aside to cool down
- Preheat your oven to 300° F or 150°C
- Grease a loaf pan (9×5 inch) or an 8 inch circular pan and line with parchment paper
- Coat the nuts with 1/2 Tbsp. all purpose flour and set aside. Coating with flour prevents them from sinking to the bottom of the cake
- Combine all the dry ingredients in a separate bowl and set it aside
- To a large bowl, add salted or unsalted butter, softened to room temperature
- Add 1 tbsp. neutral cooking oil (to make the cake moist)
- Add dark brown sugar
- Cream the butter and sugar for 1 min, while scraping the bowl from time to time
- Add 3 eggs, 1 egg at a time, while whisking in between. For eggless cake, add 1 cup of plain unsweetened yogurt instead. Both the eggs and yogurt should be at room temperature
- Add the dried ingredients and mix gently with the wet ingredients till no large flour pockets are visible
- Add nuts and the dried fruits. Save some dried fruits for topping the cake
- Scoop the cake batter into the cake pan and level it with your spatula
- Top with the remaining dried fruits and some cashew nuts. Press down the topping gently
- Bake the with-egg cake for ~90 min and the eggless cake for ~100 min or till a tooth pick inserted into the cake comes out clean
- Approximately half way through the baking, at ~45 min, cover the cake lightly with some tin foil, in order to preserve the beautiful color of the topping
- Cool down the cake completely and enjoy!
Video
Notes
- You can also use dried cranberries, blueberries or cherries. You can add walnuts too!
- You can use grape juice instead of orange juice
- Instead of boiling the dried fruits, you can also soak them overnight with orange/grape juice
- You can substitute dark brown sugar with jaggery powder as well
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