SPICE FRUIT CAKE

INGREDIENTS

Refined flour (maida)-125 gm

Baking powder- 1tsp

Spice powder- 2 tsp dry roasted and grounded (cloves, cardamom, mace, cinnamon,star anis)

Butter-100 gm 

Castor sugar-3/4 cup

Caramel syrup- 1 tsp (melt sugar in a bowl over flame, and when the sugar changes color to brown, add some water to it to make the syrup)

Eggs-2

Chopped mixed nuts-almonds, cashew nut, raisins, apricot, tutti frutti etc.

METHOD

Sieve all the dry ingredients in a large bowl and keep aside. Now blend sugar and butter in another bowl into a smooth creamy mixture. Add the caramel syrup into the butter-sugar mixture. Now add one-by-one two eggs and blend it using a hand-blender (preferably). Add both the dry and wet ingredients together into a smooth batter. Put the chopped nuts smeared with little flour and water. Pour this batter into a greased baking tray, again put nuts on it from above with gentle hands. Bake the Spice Fruit Cake in pre-heated oven at 160 C for 40 mins.