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Ingredients
For The Cake
- 1 cup (240ml) warm milk
- 1 tablespoon (15ml) vinegar or lemon juice
- ½ cup (100g) light brown sugar
- ½ cup (120ml) oil (sunflower or canola, any flavorless oil)
- ¼ cup (60ml) honey
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- ½ teaspoon cinnamon powder
- 1 teaspoon ginger powder
- ½ teaspoon cloves powder
- ¼ teaspoon nutmeg powder
- 1½ cup (200g) refined flour/maida
- 2 tablespoons cocoa powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- 1 cup (160g) mixed dried fruits
- ½ cup (70g) raisins
- ½ cup (70g) black currants
- 2 tablespoons tutti frutti
- ¼ cup (35g) almonds roughly chopped
- ¼ cup (35g) cashews roughly chopped
To Top The Cake
- 2 tablespoons mixed dried fruit
- 1 tablespoon tutti frutti
- 1 tablespoon raisins
- 1 tablespoon black currants
- 1 tablespoon almonds roughly chopped
- 1 tablespoon cashews roughly chopped
- ¼ cup orange juice
- 3 tablespoons brown sugar
Note- Please read recipe notes for more details on the ingredients.
Main Equipments Used
- OTG – I use Bajaj 35-litre oven. You can find it on Amazon, here: https://amzn.to/2Q0OumQ
- Induction cooktop – I use Morphy Richards 1600 Watt Cooktop. You can find it on Amazon here: https://amzn.to/2Jkn4px
- Kitchen Weighing Scale – A must for measuring ingredients. I bought this one from Amazon: https://amzn.to/2U1BcMe
Steps In Making Eggless Christmas Cake
- To make buttermilk, in a bowl add luke warm milk and add vinegar or lemon juice in it. Stir and keep it aside for 10 minutes.
- To prepare the wet ingredients in a bowl add light brown sugar, oil, honey and mix well.
- Now add the butter milk, vanilla extract, cinnamon powder, ginger powder, clove powder, nutmeg powder and till the sugar dissolves completely.
- To prepare the dry ingredients in another large bowl sift together refined flour, cocoa powder, baking soda and salt. Mix well.
- Now add dried mixed fruits, raisins, black currants, tutti frutti, chopped almonds, cashews, and fold in till they are properly coated with the refined flour.
- Further add the dried ingredients into the wet ingredients in two batches and gently fold them in. Do not overmix.
- Pour the batter in a cake tin lined with parchment paper. Smoothen the top of the cake with the back of a spoon. Tap it couple of times to remove any air bubbles.
For The Cake Top (This step is optional)
- In a sauce pan add the dried fruits and nuts along with the orange juice and sugar.
- Now let them simmer on medium flame and while stirring it continuously cook till all the juice is absorbed by the fruits. Once done let them cool down.
- Now evenly spread the fruits on the top of the cake. The cake is ready to be baked now.
To Bake In Kadai
- In a large kadai add salt and place a stand inside it. Now cover it with a lid and let it heat on medium flame for 10 minutes.
- Carefully place the cake tin in the kadai on the stand and cover it with a lid. Now bake it on medium to low flame for 60 minutes or until a knife inserted in the center of the cake comes out clean.
To Bake In Oven
- Preheat the oven to 150 C (329 F) for 10 minutes, placing the rack in the center of the oven.
- Place the cake tin in the middle rack of the oven and bake for 70-80 minutes at 150 C or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. If the top of the cake browns too much then cover it with an aluminum foil.
- Once baked, remove it on a wire rack and let it cool down for sometime before removing it from the cake tin.
- Let it cool down completely and slice it the next day for better taste and flavour.
- Store your Eggless Christmas cake in the refrigerator in an airtight container for upto 30 days.
Recipe Notes For Eggless Christmas Cake
- You can use any dried fruits of your choice like, oranges, figs, prunes, apricots, cranberries, plums, cherries etc. Just make sure the final measurement is the same.
- If you want to add rum then soak the fruits in rum and add them while adding the liquid ingredients in the flour.
- Do check your cake 10 minutes before the baking time as all oven are different.
- Always cut the Christmas cake the next day else it might crumble while slicing.
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What will be the quantity of the cake upon baking, will it yield a 1kg Christmas cake?
Hi Prachi,
It will be little more than 1kg.
Aarti 🙂
No need to cook the dry fruits before adding into the flour?
Hi Rohini,
No you don’t need to.
Aarti 🙂
Can I double the recipe?
Hi Amrita,
Yes you can
Aarti 🙂