Plum Cake.

Plum Cake You can cook Plum Cake using 20 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

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Ingredients of Plum Cake

  1. It's 3 cups of Dry fruit.
  2. You need 12 - 15 of cashew nut.
  3. It's 1 to 1.5 cups of Dark rum brandy / -.
  4. Prepare 1 cup of orange juice -.
  5. It's 1/2 cups of sugar.
  6. You need 1/4 cups of water warm.
  7. It's 2 of cloves -.
  8. Prepare 2 of cardamom -.
  9. You need 1 of cinnamon small -  piece.
  10. It's of nutmeg -  small piece.
  11. It's of orange peel  - small piece.
  12. You need 2 cups of all purpose flour -.
  13. It's 1 1/2 tsps of baking powder -.
  14. You need 1/2 tsp of baking soda -.
  15. Prepare 1 cup of sugar - + 2 tbsps.
  16. Prepare 1 cup of Unsalted butter butter at room temperature - + 2 tbsps.
  17. It's 4 of eggs at room temperature -.
  18. Prepare 1 . 5 tsps of vanilla essence -.
  19. It's 1 tbsp of jam - (I used home banana ).
  20. You need 1 - 2 tbsps of orange candied peel - (don't add more it taste bitter).

Plum Cake instructions

  1. Soaking in advance: This is the first step in making this cake. You can use any dry fruits like raisin, sultanas, dried blueberry, cranberry, cherry, dates or tutty fruity. Cut big fruits like prunes and dates and cashew into small pieces and soak in clean dry glass jar with desired quantity of brandy/rum. Soak 2 cups of dry fruits at this stage. Shake the jar once a week so that the whole fruits get soaked and stay moist. Soak the rest of the fruits in orange juice on the day before baking t....
  2. Caramel:  add 1/2 cup sugar in a sauce pan and switch on the heat in medium. After a couple of minutes the outer layer starts turning golden brown. Let that stand for a couple of minutes so that the whole sugar get caramelized(make sure the color is dark brown. This syrup gives dark color to the cake). Now add warm water (be careful while adding water that may sizzle and burn your hand) and let it boil for a few minutes. Remove from fire when the syrup starts thickening. The ideal consistency....
  3. Powder all the spices in a mortar and pestle and then make it fine powder in a mixer (my little trick is to add the spices while powdering the sugar).
  4. Preheat oven at 350 degrees F.  Measure all the ingredients and set aside. Mix the dry fruits (both soaked in brandy and in orange juice) together and drain and retain orange juice if any.  Toss dry fruits with 2 tbsp of flour and set aside.  Sieve the remaining flour,  baking soda, salt and baking powder and set it aside.  Powder the sugar..
  5. Separate egg yolk and white..
  6. Beat egg white until soft peak appear and keep that aside..
  7. Beat egg yolk with butter(at room temperature) until soft. Slowly add powdered sugar into this mixture and beat well. When this forms into a smooth paste add vanilla, spices powder and caramel syrup. Then add flour and orange juice  (you need nearly 1/2 cup orange juice) alternately and beat until it mix well. Add jam at this stage and mix well until it combined..
  8. Fold beaten egg white using a spatula. Then fold dry fruits mix to the cake batter and bake in a greased baking pan for 40 - 50 mins. Baking time depends on oven and the size of your baking pan..