FRUIT CAKE

"Sweet" is a rare gift god gave us to sense and to arrest all our minds. We all love anything sweet -song, food, person, dress, house etc etc.  What sweet can we fetch out from our kitchen shelves to the food lovers?? And that too homemade?? And that too healthy?..... Here comes an easy. yummy fruit cake recipe!!

Dates are too sweet that diabetics does not make them too edible. But they are contraindicated for iron-richness  and fiber. It is always good to have a small idea or knowledge of the nutritional values of what we eat. For more click here.

Ingredients :-

1.     Maida/ all purpose flour- 2 cups

Sugar-2 cups

Baking soda- 1tspn

Nutmeg powdered- ¼ tspn
Salt-1/2 tspn

2.     Oil-1cup

Eggs-3 or 2

Vanilla essence- 1tspn

Caramel

3.     Dry fruits

Raisins half cup

Dates chopped to the size of raisins  half cup

Can add nuts or other dry fruits. Dry fruits must be soaked in brandy or wine or whisky for one hr.

Directions :-

1.Mix all the dry ingredients in 1.

2.Beat egg and add oil and vanilla (wet mixture)

3.Add the dry mixture into the wet mixture. And give a thorough swirl to form a batter.

4.Add dry fruits into the resulted batter(which is not too thick to form a dough or not too loose to form a batter).  Pour this into an oven proof cake mold. The batter should fill only half of the pan, because since the cake rises it has a chance to brim over.

5.Bake at 400 degree F  for  40 min or more until cooked. Insert a knife into the center most part of the cake and take it out. If it comes out clean, the cake is well cooked.

DONE


BON APPETITE:)