Best Christmas Fruit Cake recipe is a perfect cake for the holiday season. Make a delicious Christmas fruit cake without alcohol. If you are looking for a non-alcoholic Xmas cake then this is it!
Some more Xmas cakes are – Christmas Brandy Cake, Xmas Cake in Rum or learn how to soak fruits for alcohol-based cake.
When I visited my mom this year in summer, my sister made me taste a fruit cake from a bakery in Dehradun and asked me to identify the spice that imparts a unique flavor and aroma to the cake. I couldn’t identify it and racked my brain quite a bit.
Well didi, this post is for you as finally identified that spice – nutmeg, and I loved that flavor. Now I will create best fruit cake for you when I see you next and you can pass your judgment.
You can reduce the quantity of nutmeg depending on how strong the flavor you want.
Christmas Fruit Cake Recipe
Ingredients
- 1½ cup all purpose flour
- 1 cup yogurt homemade curd or buttermilk
- ¾ cup sugar granulated
- ½ tsp baking soda
- 1¼ tsp baking powder
- ½ cup olive oil
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 2 tsp all spice powder garam masala
- 1 tsp cinnamon powder
- ½ nutmeg grated
- 1 cup mixed dried fruits & spices dried fig, walnuts, raisins, black currants, dried cherries, candied ginger
- 2 tbsp coffee brew
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 200 °C. Grease and line a loaf pan. Sift flour 2-3 times.
- In a large bowl, beat the sugar and yogurt for 5 minutes on high speed. Add baking powder and baking soda, beat in on low, and allow to stand for 3 minutes. You will find that bubbles appear. Beat in the oil and vanilla extract to the curd mixture. Slowly add the flour in 4 lots, blending in well after each addition. Coat all the dried fruits in flour to avoid sinking to the bottom. Add them to the batter along with all spice powder, cinnamon powder, nutmeg and coffee liquid. Fold in gently
- Pour batter in the prepared pan. Bake at 200 °C for 10 minutes, reduce temperature to 170 °C and bake for 45 minutes or till a toothpick inserted into the cake comes out clean.
- Cool the cake for 30 minutes and then overturn onto a plate. Wait for at least 2 hours before slicing it, else it doesn’t slice neatly.
Notes
- You can reduce quantity of nutmeg depending upon how strong the flavor you want.
- Coat all dried fruits in flour to avoid sinking to the bottom.
- Prepare coffee decoction by steeping coffee in water overnight.
I love how little time this takes! Do you think I could use fruit pieces or freeze dried fruits in this recipe?
Yes very easily you can use dried fruits or fruit pieces