Fruit Cake

Simple Fruit Cake

Ingredients :

1. All - purpose flour (Maida) - 3 cups
2. Eggs - 4
3. Sugar powder - 2 1/4 cups
4. Baking powder - 1 teaspoon
5. Pineapple essence - 4 drops
6. Orange Juice - 1 cup
7. Butter - 100 gms (at room temperature) 
8. Cashew-nuts - few - cut into small pieces
9. Dry Cherries - few 
10. Walnuts - few - chopped
11. Almonds - few - chopped
12. Dates - few - chopped
13. Pinch of salt

How to make Fruit Cake :

• Preheat oven to 325 degrees F
• Combine all dry fruits and sprinkle little amount of flour in it, keep aside
• In a medium size bowl, add sieved flour, sieved sugar, baking powder and mix it
• Break the eggs into the mixture and stir it with the batter
• Add butter,mix it well
• Add Orange juice, pineapple essence and pinch of salt into it
• Beat the batter till smooth and creamy or use food processor to make smooth
• Now add dry fruits into creamed mixture and stir it
• Grease the aluminum tray or cake tin with ghee and make a coat of maida
• Pour batter up to half of the aluminum tray 
• Cover it with a aluminum foil

• Bake it for 1 hour
• Once done, remove from the oven and place it in cool place

• Slice the cake with a knife and serve it

Note : When insert a knife into the cake, it should come through clean. it shows cake is fully cooked.

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