Raisins Cherry Cake

Ingredients : 

• Raisins   - 1cup
• Cherries sliced - ¹/₂cup
• Rum       - ¹/₂cup
• Refined flour - 1¹/₂cups
• Baking powder - 3tsp
• Salt        - a pinch
• Powdered sugar - ³/₄cup
• Butter or Ghee - ³/₄cup
• Egg       - 2nos
• Vanila essence - 1tsp

For Icing :

• Icing Sugar        - 1cup
• Milk                   - 1¹/₂tbs
• Vanilla essence - ¹/₄tsp

Method : 

Mix cherries and raisins with rum. Keep on fire and remove when it begins to boil. Keep it for a night, so that the fruits will soak up the rum.

Sieve the flour, baking powder salt and powdered sugar together. Add ghee and mix it well. Beat the eggs till fluffy. Add this to the flour-ghee mixture and mix. Pour vanilla essence and the prepared fruit solution to it and stir well.

Pour the cake mixture in a greased ring mould. Bake for at least 45 minutes or till the cake is done. When cool, gently turn the cake out. 

Beat the ingredients for icing till light and fluffy. Pour this over the prepared cake and bake it before use. Decorate the cake by topping with grated chocolate over the icing.