Kerala Plum Cake or Christmas Fruit Cake Recipe – a scrumptious and straightforward step-by-step recipe for fruit cake or Kerala plum cake, that’s good for Christmas or actually, all yr spherical. 
Christmas in Kerala is what reminiscences are fabricated from. I haven’t come again in 6 years so this yr is additional particular. Apart from a couple of times once I was a child, Amma hasn’t made fruit cake at dwelling from scratch as a result of yearly we’re inundated with fruit muffins from mates celebrating Christmas.
This yr’s first cake is that this Kerala plum cake from Omana Paul, a preferred caterer and good good friend of ours. Their plum cake may be very in style and so they make hundreds right now of the yr. Amma had the recipe so I needed to share it in time for Christmas. I’ve additionally shared an eggless fruit cake recipe if that’s what you might be after. This tutti frutti cake is ideal for many who don’t actually like plum muffins or raisins. I’ve a number of of these in my household too however tutti frutti, they love!
Additionally take a look at an inventory of simple Christmas muffins and cookies.
This fruit cake recipe doesn’t want you to soak the dry fruits upfront and it’s alcohol-free so you may make the cake immediately simply earlier than you want it.
Step by Step Kerala Plum Cake / Christmas Fruit Cake Recipe
This Kerala plum cake recipe requires you to caramelise sugar right into a thick sugar syrup. Don’t be like me and fear about it, it’s actually not that onerous, you simply have to be cautious whereas doing it.
In a pan on medium warmth, soften 1/2 cup sugar slowly.
It would first soften after which flip right into a darkish brown syrup. Hold stirring and let it flip a deep darkish caramel color. Don’t let it burn.
Within the pic above, the sugar is simply beginning to soften alongside the edges. Gently stir to get it going.
Extra of the sugar is now melting and it’s best to begin getting the scent of caramel at this stage. Stir often and maintain heating.
When it reaches the stage as proven within the above image, you might be prepared to maneuver on to the subsequent step.
Flip off warmth and add 1/4 cup water to the sugar syrup. The syrup will harden a bit and sizzle.
Flip the warmth again on and slowly warmth the combination till the sugar crystals dissolve.
This may take round 10 minutes and the combination will foam and bubble a bit. As soon as all of the sugar crystals are dissolved and also you get a easy syrup, flip off warmth. Put aside and let this combination cool when you proceed with the preparation of the fruit cake.
Set the oven to pre warmth at 350F / 180C. Add 3 tbsp flour to the dry fruits and nuts and dredge fully to coat it. That is in order that they don’t sink to the underside of the batter whereas baking. Put aside.
Combine the remaining flour with baking powder, spices, and salt till properly mixed.
Combine the butter and three/4 cup sugar till smooth – about 5-6 minutes by hand, 2 minutes with an electrical beater.
Add vanilla and blend till mixed.
Subsequent, add 1 egg and beat properly till integrated.
Then add 1/3 of the flour combination and fold gently. 
Likewise, alternate between the eggs and flour combination till they’re used up.
Add the cooled sugar syrup and dredged fruits and gently fold in.
Grease a 6″ cake pan generously with butter
Pour batter into the cake pan and easy the highest gently if uneven
Bake for 50-55 minutes till the highest turns a darkish brown and when a skewer inserted into the cake comes out with dry crumbs. You can begin checking from 45 minutes in case your oven bakes the cake quicker.
The highest might appear to be it’s overdone however don’t fear about that, it’s simply the sugar syrup giving the cake crumb a darker color. Make sure that the within can also be fully cooked earlier than you are taking the cake out of the oven.
Sometimes these aren’t frosted so simply mud the Kerala plum cake with icing sugar when the cake is totally cooled and retailer in hermetic containers in room temperature for as much as three days.
Notes:
- The quantity of fruits and what sort you need to use is completely as much as you. I’d suggest to make use of orange peels when you can as a result of it enhances the flavour lots. I’ve additionally made this cake simply with cashew nuts and dates with some raisins and that’s labored rather well too
- In the event you plan to ice the cake, scale back sugar by 1/3 cup. This cake is nice sufficient by itself.
- I’ve up to date the recipe with cinnamon powder and clove powder I purchased readymade however you may also powder collectively 1 clove + 1 cardamom pod + small piece of cinnamon + a pinch nutmeg so as to add to the cake you probably have the entire spices useful
- I adjusted the quantity of sugar from my authentic recipe since I discovered the cake too candy however when you tried my authentic recipe and favored it prior to now, the measurement for sugar used was 1/2 cup sugar for the syrup and 1 cup within the batter. I’ve now adjusted it to three/4 cup for the batter.
- What’s Kerala plum cake? I get this query lots particularly why this cake is named “plum cake” if there aren’t any plums within the cake. Properly, I’m not completely positive both however fruit cake is named plum cake in Kerala and possibly historically it at all times concerned plums and the recipe has advanced.
- In the event you don’t need to make the sugar syrup for Christmas cake from scratch, you should buy treacle from shops. It’s a thick sugar syrup which will additionally embody molasses. Use 1/4 cup rather than the sugar syrup on this recipe.
- You possibly can change the cashew nuts with almonds or walnuts too however personally I like cashew nuts in fruit cake.
- The cake shall be a bit powerful to unmould when you don’t grease the cake pan generously
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