HOME MADE PLUM CAKE

 For this Xmas an easy recipe for Home made Plum Cake

Recipe by:

John Lenin

Ingredients:

For 1 kg dry fruit mix:

 250 gm red glazed cherries

125 gm tutty fruity

100 gm cashew nuts

125 gm raisins

25 gm orange peel

25 gm lemon peel

3 gms nutmeg powder

3 gms cinnamon powder

125 ml brandy

50 ml rum

50 ml red wine. (wine must , others optional)

For the cake:

150 gm refined flour

150 gm demerara sugar

150 gm butter

3 eggs

3 gm baking powder

10 gm milk powder

325 gm dry fruit mix

3 ml vanilla essence

100 gm crumbed biscuits.

Method:

Chop the peels and cherries into halves.

In a bowl, mix all the solid ingredients of the dry fruit

mix and finally pour brandy, rum and wine into the mix.

If possible, soak and keep it in a container for at least

15 days.

This will make it flavorful.

For the cake, preheat the oven at 200 degrees Celsius.

Grease the cake mould with butter and place butter

paper at the base.

In another bowl, mix together butter and sugar and

blend it well.

Add eggs and vanilla essence and beat well.

Now, add refined flour, baking powder and salt to

the egg and butter mix and blend well.

Add to it the dry fruit mix and pour mixture in the

cake mould.

Sprinkle the cake top with biscuit crumbs and bake

for around 25 minutes till it cooks well.

Serve hot.