Rich Plum Cake Recipe Kerala Traditional Christmas Plum Cake Fruit Cake Meemiskitchen

December 19 2014 by aarthi 200 comments.

Birthday cake recipe good food. This indian version of the christmas fruit cake is rich cake packed with dry fruits and nuts that are easily available in india. Lets celebrate this season of the year with kerala plum cake. At first look soaking fruits in orange juice and then adding more to the cake batter might seem a bit scary and a sweetness overload but the nuts add the needed crunchiness balance the sweetness.

Each country has their own style of making a cake for christmas. The dry fruits need to be soaked for a little while. The preparations go a long way shopping for good quality dry fruits cutting chopping mixing soaking and finally the intricate baking process it is a wonderful enchanting experience.

This kerala plum cake recipe requires you to caramelise sugar into a thick sugar syrup. The texture of the cake is moist and the taste is really good. Kerala style christmas plum cake recipe is a boozy dark intense cake that is made in advance for christmas.

In other words this is a quick recipe but not an egg free alcohol free or any free recipe. Plum cake rich plum cake recipe christmas cake plum cake baking towards the end of advent season is a ritual that i look forward to every year. The house was filled with the aroma of the rich dry.

In a pan on medium heat melt 12 cup sugar slowly. I halved the quantity of the ingredients as i only wanted one cake. The trick with fruit cakes is to chop the dried fruits.

My viewers have been asking for the traditional fruit cake which has rum in it. Dont be like me and worry about it its really not that hard you just need to be careful while doing it. Kerala plum cake is a traditional fruit cake made in india for christmas.

Even though i have three variation of plum cake recipe in my blog. But alas all the fruit sank to the bottom. The nuts and dry fruits are steeped in the liquor of choice and the cake is additionally loaded with nuts making it a wholesome cake full of bite.

But if you wanted to try the alcoholic version check out my christmas fruit cakekerala plum cake. This plum cake is a recipe i have been following for years and is now a foolproof recipe that i turn to every christmas. Take time to chop the apricots and rough chop the raisins and black grapes.

Not that i am opposed to any of these versions i just refuse to classify them under christmas cake or kerala plum cake. I baked the rich plum cake last week. The preparation to make this cake starts even a month before christmas.

I used 3 eggs instead of 5 and 12 a cup of molasses instead of preparing the caramel.