Traditional Fruit Cake - X'Mas Special...

Ingredients:-

All Purpose Flour - 300 gm
Powdered Sugar - 300gm
Unsalted Butter - 300 gm
Egg - 6 nos
Orange Juice - 1 Cup
Tuti-Fruity
Cashewnut
Raisins
Rum - 3 tbsp

Lemon juice 1 Tbsp
Powder of 1" stick cinnamon
Grated nutmeg 1
Powder of 12 cloves
Orange zest
Vanilla Essence
Baking Powder

For the caramel:

    Granulated sugar 1½ cup
    Hot water ¾ cup

Put granulated sugar into a heavy bottomed pan and heat it in medium to high flame untill it reaches black in colour. At this point, switch off the flame and slowly pour the hot water little by little into the caramalised sugar. Keep it aside.

Method:-

- Soak Raisins, Tuti- Fruity and all the dry fruits overnight in 3 tbsp of Rum.
- Take a bowl and add Butter along with Sugar and mix this well.
- Separate Egg Yolk and white. Beat the egg white to be fluffy.
- Add the beaten egg whites to the mixture.
- Add 1 tsp of Baking powder to the flour and strain this one or two times.
- Add the flour to the above mixture and keep stirring.
- Add the beaten egg yolks to the mixture and mix well.
- Add 5 tbsp of Caramelized Sugar to the mixture and mix well.
- Add 3 tbsp of Orange Juice and 1 tsp of Lemon Juice to the mixture and mix well.
- To this mixture add 1 tsp of Vanilla Essence and orange zest powder.
- Add 1 1/2 tsp of whole spices powder to this and mix well.
- To the soaked fruits, dust it with all purpose flour and add this to the above mixture. (to make this dry)
- In a baking tray, spread a bit of butter and dust it with all purpose flour.
- Pour the mixture on to the tray and place this in pre-heated oven at 370 degree F.

Cook this for 30 mins.Have this cake with Wine and enjoy a wonderful X'Mas