X-mas cake recipe

These are plum cakes made with adding fermented dry fruits/nuts. A cake mixing get together is performed months before the actual cake mixing. Variety of dry fruits are soaked in liquor and kept aside for fermentation. And eventually this fermented mixture is flavoring factor in X-mas cakes.

Recipe for cakes

Ingredients
Brown sugar- 1 cup
Oil - 2/3 cup
Water - 1.1/4 cup
Flour - 2 cup
Baking powder - 1 tsp
Baking soda - 1/2 tsp
Cinnamon powder- 1/4 tsp
Nutmeg powder - 1/2 tsp
Cardamom powder - 1/4 tsp
Salt -1/2 tsp
Vanilla essence- 3 drops
Dry fruit mixture(Squeezed and roughly chopped)- 30 gm

Method

Mix brown sugar,oil and water together. Take sifted flour in a mixing bowl, add all powdered spices, baking soda,baking powder,salt. Add the oil and water mixture to the flour gently mixing using a rubber spatula.

Add the fermented dry fruit mix and vanilla essence and pour it in moulds.

Bake in pre heated oven at 180 deg Celsius for 40 minutes.