Christmas special: Plum cake

After a small break, I'm back with a yummy Christmas recipe. Plum cake.

Ingredients:

• Nuts
• Raisins
• Cashews
• Almonds
• Nutmeg
• Tutty Frutty
• Rum - 1 cup
• Eggs - 2
• Butter
• Maida/ All purpose flour - 1 cup
• Baking powder - 1 spoon
• Vanilla pod or Vanilla essence
• Sugar - 1 + 1/2 cup
• Spices 
• Cinnamon roll
• Cloves - 4
• Dry ginger/ chukku - 1 piece
• Nutmeg - 4 
• Caraway seeds / Kaala jeera

Preparation:

• On day 1, soak raisins, tutty frutty, cashews, almonds and nutmeg in rum. Keep it in a closed vessel for a week.

• Keep mixing the ingredients every day. The ingredients will become double sized in a week's time.

On the day of cake preparation:

• Take the eggs and separate the egg white and yolk. Add vanilla pod or vanilla essence to the egg yolk. Whisk egg white and egg yolk separately and keep aside.

• Take a frying pan and caramelize half cup of sugar. For this, add the sugar in the hot pan and stir for 3 mins. Now slowly add water and bring it to a dark brown state. Be very careful while adding water.

• Grind all the spices and keep aside.

• Mix all purpose flour and baking powder and keep aside.
• Mix one cup of sugar and butter (at room temperature) and knead well.

• Add whisked egg yolk slowly to the butter-sugar mix and mix well.
• Add the caramelized sugar and powdered spices to the mix and blend well.

• Now add the all purpose flour (maida)- baking powder mix and mix well.
• Add the soaked nuts/ raisins and mix well.
• Now also add the whisked egg white and mix well.

• Take a baking bowl and grease it with butter thoroughly.

• Pour the cake mix to the baking bowl.

• Pre heat the oven for 180 C. This will take around 10 mins.
• Place the mix in the oven and bake for 45 mins at 180 C.

• Let it cool down before you remove it from the baking bowl.
• Make sure that the cake has cooled down before you start serving it.

Enjoy this rummy-yummy plum cake. Merry Christmas to all of you!