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To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook christmas fruit & walnut cake using 27 ingredients and 29 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Christmas Fruit & Walnut Cake:
- Get For soaking-
- Take 1/4 cup fruit juice (I used fresh orange juice)
- Make ready 2-3 tbsp tutti frutti
- Make ready 1 tbsp golden raisins
- Make ready 1 tbsp black currants
- Take 1 tbsp cranberries
- Make ready 2 tbsp dried and candied assorted fruits (Kiwi, Pineapple, Orange)
- Take 2-3 soft dates
- Make ready For the dry mix-
- Take 1 cup whole wheat flour
- Prepare 1 tbsp cornflour
- Get 1 tsp baking powder
- Make ready 1/2 tsp baking soda
- Take 1/4 tsp cinnamon powder
- Make ready 1/4 tsp ginger powder
- Make ready 2 tbsp milk powder
- Get 1 pinch nutmeg (optional)
- Get Others-
- Make ready 1/2 cup milk + 1 tsp vinegar/ lime juice, for the buttermilk
- Make ready 1/2 cup roasted California walnuts, chopped
- Get 2 tbsp sugar +1 tbsp water + 4 tbsp water, for the caramel syrup
- Make ready 1/4 cup brown sugar
- Make ready as required Some Orange zest
- Take 1 tsp vanilla essence
- Take 1/4 cup melted butter
- Make ready as required Some milk, for brushing
- Prepare as required Icing sugar, for dusting on top
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Steps to make Christmas Fruit & Walnut Cake:
- Start with soaking the fruits into the juice. Mix them all really well and keep aside for an hour.
- For the dry mix, sieve everything (all the dry mix ingredients) together and keep aside.
- For the buttermilk, mix in the vinegar/ lime juice into the milk and set aside for exactly 10 minutes.
- Now, take the chopped walnuts and add ½ tsp of the dry mix to it. Keep it aside too.
- For the caramel syrup, heat sugar and 1 tbsp water in a pan. Cook on a low flame with continuous stirring until the mixture turns golden.
- Once it turns golden, add in 4 tbsp of water and cook until the solution becomes uniform.
- Remove and keep aside to cool.
- Now, to make the cake batter, take a large mixing bowl. Add the soaked fruits, caramel syrup, brown sugar, orange zest and mix well.
- Add the prepared buttermilk, and give a good mix.
- Now, add in the dry mix in two parts. Add the first half and mix very gently. DO NOT OVER MIX.
- Add the balance dry mix and melted butter. Again, give a gentle mix.
- Lastly, add the walnuts and mix once again.
- Transfer the batter into a baking tin (lined with parchment paper) and bake at 170 degrees Celsius for 45- 50 minutes in a preheated oven.
- Remove and brush with some milk. This prevents the cake from drying.
- Cover with a muslin cloth and let it cool in the baking tin itself for 10 minutes
- After 10 minutes, unmould and cool it further on a wire rack. This prevents soggy bottoms.
- Once cooled completely, dust with some icing sugar on top.
- Garnish, slice and serve.
- Enjoyyyy!
- Vishesh Tippani- Sieving is important as it ensures that no lumps remain. It also incorporates air into the dry mix.
- Keep the buttermilk aside for exactly 10 minutes.
- Coating the nuts with some flour before adding them to the batter, prevents them from sinking to the bottom of the cake.
- Whenever zesting the orange or any other citrus peel, make sure to just grate thrice at one spot. Grating more will add in the bitter white peel too.
- DO NOT OVERMIX THE BATTER. It will make your cake dense.
- Do not add the dry mix all at once.
- Always make sure to pre-heat your over. It ensures uniform baking of your cake.
- Always, grease and dust your cake tin. It prevents your cake from sticking to the pan. you can also line it with a parchment paper.
- Brushing the cake top with some milk after baking prevents it from drying.
- Cooling on a wire rack is important as it prevents soggy bottoms.
- Ready to serve and ENJOY!
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