Glazed Plum Cakes
1.kismis[golden & black]
pineapple preserve
tuttifrutti
Cherry
dates[pitted & chopped]
ginger preserve
Alltogether 500 gms.Soak this in 1 cup wine/brandy/rum for atleast 2 weeks.I soaked it for 1 month in 1/2 cup each rum & wine.Stir this mixture sothat all fruits are evenly coated & all liquid absorbed.
2.Butter[unsalted-250 gm
Sugar granules-250 gm[pwdr this]
Beat this together till light & fluffy.
3.Caramelised sugar syrup[dark one]-1/2 cup
Add this & beat.
4.Eggs-250 gm[5 no.'s]
Add one by one to the above & beat well. If it starts to curdle, add some flour to this .
5.All purpose flour -250 gm
Baking Powder-3/4 tsp
Baking Soda-1/2 tsp
Sieve together thrice & fold in batches to the above.
6.orange juice/milk-1 cup
Add this in batches in between flour
7.Cake jeera pwdr-1/2 tsp
Cinnamon,Cardamom & Cloves-1 tsp each
Orange Rind-2 oranges
vanilla essence-1 tsp
orange essence-1/2 tsp[u can substitute this with vanilla]
Add to the batter & fold in.Now add the soaked dry fruits & nuts to this & fold in.I mixed 2 tbsp maida with some tutti frutti & nuts & folded in last. Also kept some nuts & tuttifrutti to decorate the batter after pouring in cake tins.
Preheat oven at 160 C & bake this for 45-60 minutes,until a skewer inserted in the middle of the cake comes clean.Usually this batter requires two 1 kg moulds to bake.U can half the ingredients if u need only one cake.U can use the remaining half of the soaked ingredients to bake some other time. U will get almost 2 1/4 kg. of cake with this batter.
For the Glaze
1. Apricot Jam-3-4 tbsps
Almonds -15-20
Walnuts/Pecans-10
Boil some water and add the almonds and let this sit for 10-20 minutes. Now you can easily Remove the brown cover of the almonds.Pat Dry and let it dry in the sunlight for a day.
3. Apricot-8
Fig-6
Glazed Cherries-6-8
Dates-7-8
Big Raisins-20
Slice the above dry fruits each into 4 slices except cherries which you can half and the raisins which you can use as such.
Heat the jam adding 1-2 tsp water.
Method-1
Put all the above dry fruits into the Jam and coat it and arrange them on the Plum Cakes
Method-2
Brush the Jam in the cakes and arrange the fruits neatly over the cakes and brush the Jam again over the arranged dry fruits
Glazed Plum Cakes are ready.
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