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Christmas Plum Cake

Recipe Description:

Plum Cake is famous during the festival of Christmas; it looks simple but tastes delicious. It also has lesser fat content as it doesn't have any cream in it.

Ingredients

•  Maida - 200 grams

•  Castor sugar - 200 grams

•  Margarine - 200 grams

•  Butter - 200 grams

•  Cashews - 100 grams

•  Almonds - 100 grams

•  Dry grapes or raisins - 50 grams

•  Cherries - 50 grams

•  Orange peel - 50 grams

•  Ginger(soaked in sugar syrup) - 50 grams

•  Cake Masala - 2 teaspoons (available in bakeries and grocery shops)

•  Shajeera - 2 teaspoons

•  Baking soda - 2 teaspoon

•  Eggs - 6

•  Caramel syrup - 1 cup

•  Powdered nutmeg - a pinch

1. Beat the eggs well.
   
2. Beat the butter and sugar well separately.
   
3. Mix the dry fruits(finely chopped), sieved maida and sieved cooking soda and baking soda in a bowl well.
   
4. Add the shajeera, cake Masala, to the butter mixture.
   
5. Add the caramel syrup, beaten eggs, and beat it well to get a foamy mixture.
   
6. Add the above mixture to the maida mixture and stir them well to get a soft, cake mixture.
   
7. Pour it in the greased baking plate and bake it for 20 minutes approximately in 160 deg.C and for 10 minutes in 180 deg C.

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