Chocolate Fruit Cake

 I have always told about how much everyone in my house likes Fruit cake, This recipe is my another take on this gorgeous cake, yes it is Chocolate fruit cake. For Other Variants of Fruit Cake, Click here.

Ingredients

Maida or APF - 1.5 Cups
Sugar -1 Cup
Cinnamon powder - 1 Teaspoon
Vanilla Essence - 1 Teaspoon
Buttermilk - 3/4 Cup
Cocoa powder - 1/4 Cup
Mixed Fruits and Nuts - 1.5 Cups (Mix with 1/4 Cups of Maida)
Baking Powder - 1 Teaspoon
Eggs - 2 (Large)
Butter - 3/4 Cup

Method

• Grease and dust a baking pan and keep it ready.
• Pre - Heat the Oven at 160 C.
• In a mixing bowl, Cream the sugar and butter well using a whisk.
• Add Vanilla essence to this and mix well.
• Add egg one by one and whisk it well.
• To this add the Buttermilk and whisk it in.
• Meanwhile, sift Maida, Cocoa Powder, Cinnamon Powder, Baking Powder twice and keep it aside.
• Now add the sifted Ingredients little by little into the Whisked ingredients and fold it in.
• To this, add the Mixed Fruits and Nuts and fold it in.
• Now pour this into the greased Baking tin and bake at 160C for 40 Minutes or till it is done.
• Cool this completely before serving.

Eggless Fruit Cake - No Butter

I love fruit cakes, as we dont use any alcohol at home, I usually soak them with Orange Juice for a Day and make these cakes. I will write a seperate post of this some time. Now lets go on with this recipe.

Ingredients
Maida or APF - 2 Cups (Keep 1/4 Cup aside)
Oil - 1/ 2 Cup
Mixed Fruits and Nuts - 1 Cup (Add the 1/4 Cup of Maida kept aside)
Sugar - 1 Cup
Orange Juice - 1/2 Cup
Vanilla Essence - 1 teaspoon
Cinnamon powder - 1 teaspoon
Baking Powder - 1 Teaspoon

Method

• Sift Maida,Cinnamon powder and Baking powder together.
• In a mixing bowl add sugar and Oil and mix them well.
• Now add the Orange Juice to this and Mix well.
• To this add the Sifted flour mixture and mix them well.
• Then add the Mixed Fruits and nuts dusted with Maida to this.
• Pour this to a Baking Pan, which is greased and Dusted.
• Bake this in a Pre Heated Oven at 170 C for 40 -50 Minutes or till done. (Mine took 60 minutes)
• Allow it to cool completely and slice it and serve.

Yummy Fruit Cake

 I have already posted different versions of Fruit Cakes, I had bookmarked this recipe for some time now and wanted to try it.

Do try other Fruit Cake recipes from here.

 Ingredients

Maida or APF - 2 Cups
Mixed Fruits and Nuts - 2.5 Cups (Mixed with 1/4 cup of flour)
Eggs - 3
Baking Powder - 1 Teaspoon
Butter - 1 Cup
Sugar - 1 Cup (I have used 1/2 Cup of Brown Sugar and 1/2 Cup of Regular Sugar)
Vanilla Essence - 1 Teaspoon
Cinnamon powder - 1 Teaspoon

Method

• Sift Maida, baking powder and Cinnamon powder together and keep it aside.
• Grease a Baking pan and dust it with flour and cut and place parchment paper on the bottom and Sides of the Tin.
• Pre heat the Oven at 170C for 15 minutes.
• In a mixing Bowl, Cream Butter and sugar together.
• To this add egg one by one and whisk it well.
• To this add the Vanilla essence and whisk it in.
• Now add the sifted flour little by little to the wet ingredients and fold it in.
• At last, add the Mixed fruits and Nuts and fold it in.
• Pour this mixture into the prepared Tin and Bake it for 50 minutes at 170C or till it is done.
• Cool it completely before slicing it.

Fruit Cake

It is Christmas time and time for the yummilicious Fruit Cake. They are so many recipes available on this online: With Rum, Non Alcohol, With Caramel Sauce, with Brown Sugar etc.

This recipe I am sharing is easy and pretty simple. We need equal amount of Butter,sugar,Maida and Egg to whip this cake.

This cake will be fluffy inside and crispy outside.

Ingredients

Maida /AFP - 1 Cup
Butter - 1 Cup (AT room temperature)
Egg - 1 Cup
Sugar - 1 Cup
Baking powder - 1 Teaspoon
Vanilla Essence - Few Drops
Mixed Fruits and Nuts - 1 Cup (See notes below)

Method

Pre Heat the Oven at 180C. Take a Baking pan and grease it with butter and dust it with Maida.

Sieve the Maida and Baking Powder together. Sieving them together will ensure that they mixed well together uniformly. If you are a beginner you can sieve it may be 2-3 times.

Take the fruit and Nuts you want and add a tablespoon of Maida to it and mix it. The mixing of Mida will ensure that the Fruit and Nuts don't sink and is spread all over the cake.

In a mixing bowl, cream the butter and sugar together. To this add the Vanilla essence and eggs and mix well.

Now add the sieved Maida + Baking powder to the Butter-Sugar-egg mixture and fold it.

Dont beat the batter as it will make the cake so hard. So gently fold the Maida in the wet ingredients. Folding is done to ensure that they is aeration which will make the cake fluffy inside and Crispy outside.

To this add the prepared Fruits and Nuts and gently mix this.

Now pour this prepared Batter into the prepared Baking tin and Bake it for 20-25 Minutes at 180C.

Once it is done, cool it completely and slice them and Serve.

Merry Christmas. 

Note:

The choice of Fruits and Nuts is completely up to you. I have used Cashews,Cranberris,Tutti Frutti,Badam,Walnuts,Fig,Dates,Candied Orange peel, Cake Seeds and Pista.

You can add whatever you want and how much ever you want.