Eggless Christmas Cake. Traditional Christmas Cake is rich in dried fruits and nuts, marinated in brandy is delicious and a must bake for every baker. There are many different ways of making this cake and this one is much close to the original, but a quick recipe. Typically the fruit and brandy mixture is made to sit for a month or even more like a year.
This simple recipe is one of the most quick & easiest that anyone can make with great success.
Most fruit cake recipes call for soaking the dried fruits in alcohol for several days to weeks.
But the recipe shared here is an instant one which doesn't require you to soak them in advance.
You can have Eggless Christmas Cake using 13 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you achieve it.
Ingredients of Eggless Christmas Cake
- Prepare of mix dry fruits (raisins, apricots, glace cherries and dry pine apple).
- Prepare of hot water.
- Prepare of Salt.
- You need of vinegar.
- It's of vanilla extract.
- It's of brown sugar.
- Prepare of oil or melted butter.
- It's of orange juice.
- It's of nuts chopped (cashew nuts, walnuts,pecans and almonds).
- You need of baking soda.
- It's of all-purpose flour.
- You need of grated nutmeg or powder.
- Prepare of cinnamon powder.
Steps In Making Eggless Christmas Cake. Eggless, Alcohol-free and Quick Version Of Christmas Cake. The recipe for Christmas cake that I am sharing here has loads of fruits, dried fruits, spices, caramel syrup, candied peels….everything that should be there in a Christmas cake. Fruits are soaked, but not in alcohol or some juice.
Eggless Christmas Cake step by step
- Take a bowl put raisins, apricots, cranberries and pineapple after that add 3/4 cup hot water(boiled) and keep aside for cool..
- When the mixture cools down, preheat the oven to 180 C for at least 15 mins..
- Add the brown sugar, melted oil, orange juice, vanilla and vinegar to the fruit mixture, mix well..
- In another mixing bowl, sieve 3 times flour, salt, cinnamon and nutmeg powder and soda..
- Mix up the flour mixture in the fruit mixture on 4 batches. Make sure the fruit mixture has cooled down before adding it to flour..
- Mix gently with a spatula using cut and fold method.
- Add chopped nuts in the mixture, mix well but do not over mix..
- Pour into a grease and dust pan. tap the pan on the kitchen counter 2 or 3 times..
- Keep it in the oven and bake at 180 C for 35 to 40 mins or take a knife inserted comes out clean means cake is baked..
- Cool the cake in the pan for 10 mins after that transfer it to chopping board or plate and cut into slices or if you want you can garnish with cream or gel..
- You can choose nuts and dry fruits according to your taste..
Alcohol free & Eggless Christmas Cake is ready!! Enjoy with your family and friends this Christmas!! Tips: Boiling the dry fruits along with the spice powders and other ingredients gives a magical aroma. I have used curd in place of eggs. Since temperatures in the oven differs according to the size, make and litres, do keep a check.