How to prepare Fruit Cake?

by ***§ñõwƒlãkê*** Mon Aug 18, 2008 10:42 pm

ingredients

1. milkmaid Sweetened Condensed Milk - 1 tin
2. all purpose flour(maida) - 2 cups
3. butter - 100 gm
4. baking powder - 1 tsp
5. soda bicarbonate - 1 tsp
6. aerated Soda (Soda water) - 150 ml
7. mixed dried fruits(chopped)cashew nuts, almonds(badam), walnuts, cherries and orange peel --1 1/2 cups or 150 gm
8. cinnamon(karuvaapatta) powder - 1/2 tsp
9. nutmeg(Jathikka) powder - 1/2 tsp
10. sugar - 1/2 cup or 75 gm
11. water - 1/3 cup or 50 ml

method

Preheat oven to 180 degree celcious. Grease an 8" square cake tin with butter. Heat sugar in a pan, till it melts. Add water to make caramel syrup and keep aside. Mix in 1 tbsp of maida to the chopped fruits to coat the fruit with the flour and keep aside. Melt the butter in a pan. Allow it to cool. Add milkmaid. Sift together the maida, baking powder, soda bicarbonate, cinnamon and nutmeg.
Mix the maida with the milkmaid- butter mixture alternating with aerated soda, till both are over. Add the caramel syrup and the chopped dry fruits and mix well. Pour into the greased cake tin and bake for 45 mins - 1 hr at 180 degree cen.

Preparation time - 30 - 40 mins
Baking time - 1 hr