Cakes

Fruit Cake

Ingredients :

Method of Preparation :

Slice all the 10th ingredients, except cashew nuts, into small pieces. Soak and keep the slices in brandy one week before preparing the cake.Powder ¹/₂kg sugar. Dissolve (Burn) it on a low flame and keep it aside. Allow it to cool. 

Sieve the flour and baking powder together. Add the ground masalas, the fruits soaked in brandy and the chopped cashew nuts in it. Mix together all the ingredients. Rub ghee and butter together. Mix it with the powdered sugar. Beat the egg yolk and egg white separately. Add the egg yolk little by little into the sugar-ghee mixture and mix well. Add the burned sugar. Add essence to the beaten egg white. Mix it with the sugar-ghee mixture.

In a greased and floured vessel pour the sugar-ghee mixture first and then the fruit mixture evenly. Repeat alternately. Spread cumin over the cake batter and bake it.

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Chocolate Cake

Ingredients : 

Method of Preparation :

Mix sugar, cocoa powder and water. Boil the mixture and make it  thick. Stir continuously. Remove from fire and allow to cool.

Beat the yolk of an egg and vanilla essence. Mix butter and powdered sugar. Add the beaten egg and the remaining eggs to it and soften the batter by stirring. Add the prepared cocoa mixture to this.

Mix baking powder and refined flour. Add soda powder to the curd. Mix the flour and the curd to the early prepared mixture. Stir it well. Pour it to a greased vessel and bake in a preheated oven at 350^oF for about 45minutes. 

Icing :

Sieve icing sugar, cocoa and salt together. Heat water and sugar, until the sugar dissolves and then remove from heat. Add the sieved contents into the warm sugar solution. Also add the essence, butter and oil to it and mix well. Pour this over the cake uniformly.

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Spunch Cake

Ingredients :

Method of Preparation:

Mix all the 1st ingredients and sieve. Beat the eggs till light and fluffy. Add sugar and beat again. Mix the 4th ingredients together. Alternately add the 1st and 4th ingredients into the egg mixture and mix well.

Warm lightly the milk and the butter and add it to the cake mixture. Pour this to a greased vessel. Bake the cake in the preheated oven, 400^oF, for about 20 minutes.

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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 of Preparation:

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.

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