Fruit cake with palm jaggery |christmas cake recipe
Delicious eggless fruit cake that is soft, moist, delicious and doesn't use alcohol. This cake is great to make for any occasion and is kid's friendly as it has no alcohol.
Course Baking, Snack
Cuisine American, Indian
Keyword cakes, dry fruits, Fruit, jaggery, no maida, no sugar
Chop all the dry fruits into smaller pieces. Keep the nuts separately.
Add 3/4 cup water to sauce pan and boil for a min.
Add palm jaggery to boiling water and stir until jaggery melts completely.
Add raisins, cranberries, tutti frutti, blueberries to a large mixing bowl.
Pour the hot jaggery water over the dry fruits. Leave them aside to cool.
When the mixture cools down, preheat the oven to 350 F/ 170 C for atleast 15 mins.
Making Fruit cake
Add oil, fruit juice, vinegar to the fruit mixture. Stir everything well.
In another mixing bowl, seive together flour and soda.
Mix up the flour well once more .
Pour it to the flour all at once. Make sure the fruit mixture has cooled down before adding it to flour.
Mix gently with a spatula until you see no streaks of flour.
Add chopped nuts. Gently give it a good stir. Do not over mix.
Grease the cake pan with oil or butter.
Pour this to a 8 inch cake pan. Knock the pan twice to the kitchen counter. Don't over do this as the nuts will settle at the bottom.
Keep it in the oven and bake at 350 F for 35 to 40 mins. If using a 8 inch pan it takes about 40 mins. If using a 9 inch pan it will be done around 30 mins.
When the cake is done, a skewer inserted comes out clean.
Cool the cake in the pan for 10 mins.
Remove from pan , cool it completely before slicing .