My honey husband, Dantu loves loves loves cakes!
He’s a really generous human alongside nearly of the things, just when it comes to sharing cakes – No No No!
I was never a bakery earlier marriage. When I saw how much DH loves cakes, I started to bake for my DH together with started to actually bask it. Today, I love baking! If I am stressed, you lot tin discovery me baking inwards the kitchen :). I love the smell inwards my kitchen when I opened upwards the oven door – it’s together with thence comforting. Always puts a smiling on your face.
My call for for this recipe started around v years agone when I saw my husband’s love thing alongside Nilgiri’s Plum Cake. He absolutely loves it. So I started searching for recipes, modified some using cocoa pulverization etc. I conduct maintain tried many recipes of plum cake over the years. Though I conduct maintain non been successful inwards replicating Nilgiri’s Plum cake exactly, this is the closest I conduct maintain gotten. Nilgiri’s cake is a chip to a greater extent than darker than mine, just I bet my cake tastes every bit adept every bit the Nilgiri’s every bit I seat inwards all my difficult give-and-take together with my love into it. Right Honey?
If anybody knows the recipe for Nigliri’s cake, delight produce share, I would greatly appreciate it.
My hubby loves this cake together with I ordinarily build this inwards large batches – iv at a time.
This recipe has evolved over the years together with I conduct maintain included a lilliputian chip from many recipes which I flora over the internet together with books. Unfortunately, I haven’t kept a adept runway of the sources, just a large give thank you lot you to all who issue their recipes on the net.
So, here’s the recipe.
Ingredients:
Golden Raisins – 1.5 cups
Tutty-Fruity – 2.5 cups
Rum – 1 Cup (I used Meyer’s Rum every bit that’s what I had at home)
Broken Cashews – 1.5 cups
Broken Walnuts – 1 cup
Broken Almonds – 1.5 cups
Butter – two cups (4 sticks)
Eggs -12
Sugar – iv cups + 1 loving cup for caramel
Vanilla – 4tsp
All role flour – iv cups
Baking pulverization – iii tsp
Salt – iii tsp
Cinnamon pulverization – 1 tsp
Cloves pulverization – 1 tsp
Dry ginger pulverization – 1 tsp
Nutmeg pulverization – 1 tsp
Method:
Soak the raisins together with tutty-fruity inwards the rum for atleast 12 hours (I sometimes soak it for a calendar week – things don’t ever larn according to your conception :))
Keep the Eggs together with butter out on the counter the nighttime earlier to ensure they are at room temperature.
Preheat the oven to 350 score F alongside a rack inwards the pump of the oven.
In a large build clean mixing bowl, sift together all role flour, salt, baking powder, cinnamon, ginger, clove together with nutmeg powders.
Prepare the caramel – In a saucepan, add together 1 loving cup of carbohydrate together with two tbs of H2O together with select this to a boil on high heat. When the carbohydrate starts to caramelize at the outer edges, (DO NOT stir at this betoken else the carbohydrate volition firstly to crystallize) cut estrus to a medium high together with swirl the saucepan a couplet of times if needed. Within a few(5-7) minutes the entire carbohydrate volition melt together with plough to a black brownish coloring together with firstly to boil. At this betoken plough off the estrus together with like shooting fish in a barrel add together 1 loving cup of H2O stirring at the same time. Make certain everything is completely dissolved. Your caramel is done. Let it cool.
The entire procedure takes entirely 5-7 mins, together with thence last unopen to the stove.
Drain the soaked dry out fruits. Mix them alongside the nuts together with iii tbs of all role flour (This volition forbid them from sinking to the bottom of the cake).
In some other large build clean mixing bowl using a manus held mixer (I used my kitchen help mixer for this alongside a paddle attachment) vanquish the butter together with iv cups carbohydrate till it is lite together with fluffy, add together the eggs one-by-one together with mix it well. Add Vanilla together with like shooting fish in a barrel pour inwards the caramel together with mix good on a deadening setting.
Add this liquid mixture to the dry out ingredients together with mix good alongside a security spatula. Now add together to the mixed batter the floured dry out fruits together with nuts together with mix good alongside the spatula.
Grease the baking pans alongside butter, identify parchment papers at the bottom of the pans together with butter them too. Flour the greased baking pans.
I job two breadstuff loaf pans together with two eight inch saltation foam baking pans.
Pour the cake batter into greased together with floured baking pans.
Bake the cake at 350 for an lx minutes or till the toothpick comes out build clean from the middle of the pan (may accept a few to a greater extent than minutes depending on your oven).
Once the cakes are done, withdraw from the oven together with cool them for xx mins. At this point, you lot tin pour a lilliputian brandy (1/3 cup) over the cakes – this adds to a greater extent than wet together with flavour to the cake.
Remove the cake from the cooled pans together with you lot tin pack these inwards parchment newspaper together with shop inwards air tight containers.
The cakes remain adept for a calendar month or together with thence depending if they final for that long. :)
Enjoy!
