I love plum cake a lot and I wanted to try it out myself and it came out really well. I would love to share the recipe here. The recipe below makes 2 cakes.
Ingredients
For Caramelizing
Other Ingredients
Preparation
Caramelizing
Mixing & Baking
The cake was so yummy as it would be in bakery.
Ingredients
For Caramelizing
- Sugar - ½ cup
- Water - 1 cup
Other Ingredients
- All purpose flour (Maida)- 2 1/2 cup
- Sugar - 1½ cup
- Butter - 2 stick
- Dried fruits (dates, raisins, dried cherries, plums, prunes and apricots) - 1 cup
- Dried nuts (almonds, cashews and walnuts) - ½ cup
- Egg - 6
- Baking soda - ¼ tsp.
- Salt - ½ tsp.
- Vanilla extract - 1 tsp.
- Dried orange peels - 1 tbsp.
- Spice powder (cinnamon, clove and dry ginger) - 1 tsp.
- Rum - ½ cup
Preparation
- Chop the dried fruits and soak them in Rum for 1 day. (Orange juice can also be used instead of Rum. If Orange juice is used soak the fruits for 3 days in room temperature)
Caramelizing
- Add 1 tbsp. of water to the sugar and heat it in medium heat.
- When the sugar starts to turn brown keep stirring and increase the heat to high.
- The sugar will start to change color from light brown to very dark brown.
- Microwave 1 cup of water for a minute and add it to the brown sugar solution.
- Boil it for a min and take it off the stove.
Mixing & Baking
- Preheat the oven at 350 degree, grease a cake pan with butter and keep aside.
- In a blender, add 2 cloves, ½ inch cinnamon, dry ginger powder, orange peel and make a powder and keep aside.
- Take a mixing bowl, and add butter and sugar and blend them really well. Now add the eggs and blend them to get fluffy.
- Now add the all purpose flour little by little and keep blending it.
- Add the caramelized sugar, vanilla essence, salt, spice powder, baking soda and beat again. Now the batter is really soft and fluffy.
- Add the dry fruits with Rum and blend it with the mix.
- Take 1 tbsp. of flour and mix it with the broken nuts.
- Pour the batter in the already greased pan. Now spread the flour coated nuts on top of the batter.
- Cook in middle of the rack for 45 minutes in 350 deg. C. The cake is ready when a toothpick inserted into it comes out clean without any cake being stuck to its sides.
- Cool completely before storing it.
The cake was so yummy as it would be in bakery.