Fruit Cake Recipe

Name: Fruit Cake
Prep time: 40 min
Cook time: 60 min
Total time: 100 min
Yield: 10
Cuisine: Dessert
Ingredients: 1 tin - Nestlé MILKMAID; 100g - Butter; 1/2 cup (75 gms) - Sugar; 1/3 cup (50 ml) - Water; 2 cups (160g) - Maida; 1 tsp. - Baking Powder; 1 tsp. - Soda Bicarbonate; ½ tsp - Cinnamon Powder; ½ tsp - Nutmeg Powder; 1½ cups, chopped (150g) - Mixed Dry Fruits; 150 ml - Aerated Soda

You will never opt for store bought Fruit cake again with this easy to follow recipe. The romance of soaking the fruits and the aroma of warm spices filling up the wintry air are just too irresistible. Even if you are not big on Christmas, this rich fruit cake recipe will change your mind for sure.

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Ingredients

1 tin Nestlé MILKMAID

100gButter

1/2 cup (75 gms)Sugar

1/3 cup (50 ml)Water

2 cups (160g)Maida

1 tsp.Baking Powder

1 tsp.Soda Bicarbonate

½ tspCinnamon Powder

½ tspNutmeg Powder

1½ cups, chopped (150g) Mixed Dry Fruits

150 mlAerated Soda

How to make Fruit Cake

Step 1: Preheat oven at 180^o C.
Step 2: Grease an 8” square cake tin with 1/2 tsp. butter. Dust with 1 tbsp. flour.
Step 3: Heat sugar in a pan till it melts and becomes brown. Add warm water to make caramel syrup and keep aside.
Step 4: Sift together the maida, baking powder, soda bicarbonate, cinnamon, and nutmeg 2-3 times. Keep aside.
Step 5: Mix in 1 tbsp. maida to the chopped fruit to coat the fruit with flour and keep aside.
Step 6: Soften butter in a pan. Beat in Nestlé MILKMAID.
Step 7: Fold in the sifted maida with the Milkmaid-butter mixture, alternating with aerated soda and caramel syrup till all are over.
Step 8 : Add the chopped dry fruits (cashewnuts, almonds, walnuts, cherries, orange peel). Fold into the mix carefully with minimum movement.
Step 9: Pour the batter into the greased cake tin and bake for an hour at 180^o C or till the cake is done. (Prick with the toothpick in the centre of the cake. If it comes out clean the cake is ready)
Step 10: Remove from oven, cool for a while. Loosen sides of cake, using a knife if necessary. Turnout over a wire rack/plate lined with cloth (to absorb moisture) and cool slightly before cutting into pieces.