Christmas Cake With Nuts & Fresh Fruit Juice [Non Alcoholic]
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I and my son both are a die-hard cake lover. How can we miss making a Christmas cake? All we need is a reason to eat cake.
A Christmas cake is a rich fruit cake covered with marzipan and icing, eaten at Christmas. These cakes were made in advance, almost two months in advance. Brandy, Whisky, and Rum were poured in the cakes from time to time until Christmas. The process is called “feeding†the cake. This feeding process helps to mature the cake.
This Christmas season, I thought to bake my own Christmas cake rather than buying it from the market. Since I was baking it for my family so I was looking for a Non-alcoholic Christmas Cake recipe without eggs that everyone in the family could enjoy.
Let's start with the recipe.
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Ingredients
- Fresh Orange Juice 2 cups
- Nuts Raisin, Glazed Cherries, Tutti Frutti, Almonds, Cashew, Black Berries 1 ½ cup
- Honey 1 tsp
- Sugar 1 cup
- Fresh Cream ½ cup
- Salted Butter 1 tbs
- All-Purpose Flour 1 cup
- Ginger Powder ¼ tsp
- Cinnamon Powder ¼ tsp
- Nutmeg Powder ¼ tsp
- Oil ½ cup
- Baking Powder ½ tsp
- Baking Soda ½ tsp
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Instructions
- Finely chop all the nuts and berries. Mix with honey and fresh orange juice. Take a glass jar and put the mixture into it. Make sure that all the nuts and berries are soaked well in juice. Cover it with lid and keep it in the refrigerator.
- For Caramel sauce, Heat a non-stick pan. Add sugar to it and keep the pan on low to medium flame. Let the sugar dissolve. Once the sugar dissolves, switch off the flame and add fresh cream to it and stir well.
- Mix it properly. Now keep it again on medium flame and add butter to it and stir it for 2-3 minutes. Switch off the flame and let it cool down.
- In a large bowl, take caramel sauce. Add oil, soaked nuts and berries and mix. In a separate bowl, Sift all the dry ingredients (Flour, Spices, Baking powder and Baking soda).
- Mix all the dry ingredients with wet ingredients and make a smooth batter. Donââ¬â¢t over mix the batter.
- Pour this batter into a greased baking tin and tap it once.
- Meanwhile, Preheat the oven at 180 °C. Now bake this batter at the same temperature for about 30 minutes or till a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean.
- Once done, take the pan out of the oven and let it cool completely. Slice and serve it
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