Christmas Fruit Cake without alcohol | Kerala Plum Cake recipe with step by step pictures and instructions. Learn how to make Christmas fruit cake using eggs. Traditional Christmas fruit cakes are prepared by soaking dry fruits in Rum/Wine for long time. I used orange juice as alternative. You can also use grape juice, apple juice etc. I have been browsing through lot of recipes for fruit cake. I tried eggless wheat Christmas fruit cake first and it came out so good. So I wanted to try with eggs. I browsed many recipes and finally adapted the recipe from here.

I made this for Christmas party in my daughter school and everyone liked it. Cake came out so soft and spongy. Choice of mixed fruit and nuts is your choice. I have given some examples of fruits and nuts you can use in notes. Quantity of dried fruits and nuts is also your choice. Nuts make it more rich and delicious. Caramel gives nice flavor and color to the cake.

Do try and let me know your feedback. You can also try the below recipes

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Christmas Fruit Cake without alcohol | Kerala Plum Cake recipe

Narmadha

Learn how to make Christmas fruit cake using eggs.

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Prep Time 30 minutes mins

Cook Time 50 minutes mins

Total Time 1 hour hr 20 minutes mins

Servings 0

Ingredients

  

• All purpose flour/Maida 1 ½ cup
• Brown Sugar 1 cup minus 2 tbsp
• Butter 200 grams
• Eggs 4
• Baking powder 1 tsp
• Salt ¼ tsp
• Cinnamon powder ½ tsp
• Cardamom powder ¼ tsp
• Vanilla essence 1 tbsp
• Cashews 5 optional to garnish
• Walnuts 3 optional to garnish

Caramel

• Sugar 2 tbsp
• Water ¼ cup

Soaking

• Orange Juice 1 cup
• Mixed dried fruits 2 ½ cup

Instructions

 

• Extract fresh orange juice and use 1 cup of orange juice.
• Finely chop the dried fruits and nuts. you can use candied orange or lemon peel too.
• Soak the dried fruits in orange juice and keep it in fridge till you use them. I soaked previous day and baked next day.
• Take sugar for making caramel in pan
• Allow it to melt in low to medium flame
• It will melt, caramelize and change to brown in colour
• Switch off the flame and now add ¼ cup water and mix. Be careful while adding water. If it crystallize you can melt in low flame. Allow it to cool down.
• Add two tbsp of flour to soaked dried fruits.
• Mix it nicely and keep it aside
• Sieve Maida, baking powder, salt, cinnamon powder, cardamom powder 2-3 time and keep it aside.
• Take butter in a bowl
• Add sugar to it
• Beat it nicely till it is creamy adding vanilla essence
• Then add eggs two at a time and beat for 1 minute
• Now add the remaining two eggs and cream it nicely
• Then add the caramel sauce and mix it nicely.
• Now add the sieved flour in batches and mix it without any lumps
• Finally add the dried fruits
• Mix it nicely till everything is combined.
• Grease the baking tin with butter and dust it with flour.
• Fill the tin with batter to ¾th and tap the pan to release air. I filled one mini loaf and one bread tin with this batter.
• Add some crushed cashews and walnuts on the top
• Preheat the oven to 180°c for ten minutes and bake it the same temperature for 45-50 minutes till toothpick inserted comes out clean.
• Cool them in wire rack and remove the cake from tin.
• Enjoy the yummy fruit cake.

Notes

Baking time and temperature will vary depending on the oven. So closely watch after 40 minutes.

Cool the cake completely before slicing

Dusting dry fruits with little flour prevent them from sinking to bottom.

My mixed dry fruits contain raisins, currants, cranberry, candied citrus peel

You can also use figs, apricots, dates, plums, tutti fruti, cherries

You can use nuts like cashews, badam, pista, hazelnuts, walnuts. I used little nuts to garnish on the top

You can use nutmeg, dry ginger and clove powder also. You can prepare the spice powder by roasting them and grinding to powder.

Original recipe called for using more dried fruits and nuts. I used 2 ½ cups only for this recipe which I felt itself is more. You can reduce the quantity of dried fruits and nuts if you are not big fan of dried fruits like me.

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How to make Christmas Fruit cake with step by step pictures

Extract fresh orange juice and use 1 cup of orange juice.

Finely chop the dried fruits and nuts. you can use candied orange or lemon peel too.

Soak the dried fruits in orange juice and keep it in fridge till you use them. I soaked previous day and baked next day.

Take sugar for making caramel in pan

Allow it to melt in low to medium flame. It will melt, caramelize and change to brown in colour

Switch off the flame and now add ¼ cup water and mix. Be careful while adding water.

If it crystallize you can melt in low flame. 

Allow it to cool down.

Drain excess juice and add two tbsp of flour to soaked dried fruits.

Mix it nicely and keep it aside

Sieve Maida, baking powder, salt, cinnamon powder, cardamom powder 2-3 time and keep it aside.

Take butter in a bowl

Add sugar to it

Beat it nicely till it is creamy adding vanilla essence

Then add eggs two at a time and beat for 1 minute

Now add the remaining two eggs and cream it nicely

Then add the caramel sauce and mix it nicely.

Now add the sieved flour in batches and mix it without any lumps

Finally add the dried fruits

Mix it nicely till everything is combined.

Grease the baking tin with butter and dust it with flour.

Fill the tin with batter to ¾th and tap the pan to release air. I filled one mini loaf and one bread tin with this batter.

Add some crushed cashews and walnuts on the top

Preheat the oven to 180°c for ten minutes and bake it the same temperature for 45-50 minutes till toothpick inserted comes out clean.

Cool them in wire rack and remove the cake from tin.

Dust it with sugar and enjoy the yummy fruit cake.