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Plum Cake

For me ‘Christmas’ equals baking a great ‘Plum Cake’ and if you are looking for a great recipe, here is one!

This plum cake is a dish I always make for Christmas! I had scheduled this post for Xmas before leaving for Pune, as I thought that would be a perfect day to post a plum cake recipe. The only thing I think is that I had scheduled it only in my head 🙁 Apparently I am a bit late to post this, but anyway, here it is with the title changed from Merry Xmas to Plum Cake!

Plum Cake

 

I got the original recipe from here which is an excellent site for baking recipes. I made some changes to the recipe like using rum instead of brandy since neither N or I really like brandy too much. Also, I used Demerara sugar instead of light brown as mentioned in the original recipe. But I must admit, this was a super duper plum cake I made.

The use of orange zest just added that extra taste to the cake and the dried fruits were just perfect to create delicious taste. Plum cakes are always an integral part of any Christmas celebrations. I believe earlier the tradition was to have plum porridge, which soon gave way to dried fruits and spices being added to the porridge and the tradition of Christmas pudding came in place. Eventually, the oatmeal was replaced by wheat flour, butter and eggs and thus was born the tradition of Christmas plum cakes!

And I must admit, these cakes do taste delicious in the cold winter nights! A warm slice of this plum cake with a glass of hot chocolate does sound delicious, doesn’t it?

Also, I love using alcohol in baking. The flavor it imparts to the dish is just so amazing. Like this delicious boozy bread pudding!

Plum Cake

For me 'Christmas' equals baking a great 'Plum Cake' and if you are looking for a great recipe, here is one! 
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Course Dessert
Cuisine American, british

Ingredients
  

  • 1 cup unsalted butter
  • 1 cup sugar Demera
  • 3 eggs large
  • 4 tbsps rum
  • one orange juice and zest
  • 3/4 cup ground almonds
  • 1 cup walnuts and cashews mixed and chopped
  • 650 gm dried fruits I used raisins, dates, prunes
  • 2 cups maida
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • 1/4 tsp salt

Instructions
 

  • Heat the oven to 160 degrees.
  • Beat the butter and sugar till light and fluffy.
  • Add eggs and beat some more.
  • Add the rum, orange juice and zest.
  • Fold the almonds, cashews and walnuts and the rest of the dry fruits in it.
  • In a separate bowl, whisk together the flour, salt, and baking powder and fold this into the cake batter.
  • Bake in the preheated oven for 1 hour. Reduce the oven temperature to 300 degrees F (150 degrees C) and continue to bake the cake for another 1 hour 30 minutes or until a long skewer inserted into the center of the cake comes out with just a few moist crumbs.
  • Enjoy!!! It was so yummy that it got over in a day and Ojas digged in it too much! I made one more for him with very very less rum.

Notes

If you make this, share a picture with me on twitter, instagram or Facebook? I would love to hear what you have to say about it !
Tried this recipe?Let us know how it was!

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Comments

  1. hitchy says

    December 29, 2009 at 4:36 pm

    Chalo bahut waqt logo ko chance diya !!!!

    its time the original champ claimed his No. 1 status !!!!!!!!!

    koi yaha aha naache naache… !!!!!! 😛 😛

    Reply
  2. hitchy says

    December 29, 2009 at 4:38 pm

    geez… nvm the recipe but the pic of the cake !!!!!!! I looks AWESOMELY YUMMYLICIOUS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Monu I need to shift to bangalore and find a house next to you seriously !!!!!!!! :P:P:P:P:P

    Reply
  3. monikamanchanda says

    December 29, 2009 at 4:46 pm

    yes aaaja nach lale…. waqt ki bhi yahi demand hai 😀 😀

    Reply
  4. monikamanchanda says

    December 29, 2009 at 4:47 pm

    come come hitchy it will be such fun I tell u

    Reply
  5. hitchy says

    December 29, 2009 at 4:52 pm

    I m sure it would be fun for me !!!!! 😛 😛 😛

    Reply
  6. masood says

    December 29, 2009 at 4:59 pm

    haha..
    grow up Dhiren!!!

    Reply
  7. monikamanchanda says

    December 29, 2009 at 5:04 pm

    ha ha ha

    sour grapes masood?

    Reply
  8. hitchy says

    December 29, 2009 at 5:22 pm

    😛 😛 😛

    Reply
  9. Writerzblock says

    December 29, 2009 at 5:48 pm

    Wowwwww….sounds and looks yummmmmm! One for me too please, with LOTS of rum 😉

    Reply
  10. shilpadesh says

    December 29, 2009 at 7:53 pm

    Yummm… I will try this one this weekend M……

    Reply
  11. Reema says

    December 29, 2009 at 9:17 pm

    very tasty looking!! how was your trip? happy new year in advance!

    Reply
  12. Indian Homemaker says

    December 29, 2009 at 9:37 pm

    My daughter’s favorite!! I am passing this to my kids to bake this one and treat us 🙂

    Reply
  13. Indian Homemaker says

    December 29, 2009 at 9:38 pm

    Now I can see the picture!!! Looks superb!

    Reply
  14. maald says

    December 30, 2009 at 4:16 am

    After two failed attempts to post a comment on ‘Diet Update’, here I go again:

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2008/jan/15/healthandwellbeing.foodanddrink

    <i>One 2003 study published in Obesity Research seemed to confirm this when it found that coconut oil could help overweight men to burn more calories and lose weight.</i>

    Reply
  15. monikamanchanda says

    December 30, 2009 at 10:40 am

    yes yes pal u come to blore its not far from chennai 🙂

    Reply
  16. monikamanchanda says

    December 30, 2009 at 10:40 am

    yes yes do and let me know how it turned out

    Reply
  17. monikamanchanda says

    December 30, 2009 at 10:41 am

    oh the trip was good… post coming up soon mostly 🙂

    happy new year to u too reema

    Reply
  18. monikamanchanda says

    December 30, 2009 at 10:41 am

    mine too 😀 wow I am waiting for ojas to grow up so that I can be treated to these things too he he

    Reply
  19. monikamanchanda says

    December 30, 2009 at 10:41 am

    thanks IHM

    Reply
  20. Pixie says

    December 30, 2009 at 11:25 am

    yummy!
    I missed it the other day… sigh!

    Will wait for the next batch from you for the tasting!!! 😉 😉

    Reply
  21. Swaram says

    December 30, 2009 at 11:54 am

    Ohh, so u don’t wanna grow up nw 😛

    Reply
  22. Swaram says

    December 30, 2009 at 11:55 am

    Wow! That looks yum 🙂
    When r we meeting again Mons 😛

    Reply
  23. masood says

    December 30, 2009 at 12:37 pm

    hehe…he wrote the same comment for me on some blog yesterday….

    Reply
  24. shail says

    December 30, 2009 at 5:40 pm

    Looks so yum!

    Reply
  25. Abha says

    December 30, 2009 at 5:54 pm

    its looking perfectly yummy mon!! awesome!!

    cheers!

    Reply
  26. mandira says

    December 30, 2009 at 8:46 pm

    Mon that looks SO good ya!! rich ,yummy, melt in the mouth types.. im drooling…

    Reply
  27. monikamanchanda says

    December 30, 2009 at 8:52 pm

    thanks will look into it, ur comments went into spam

    Reply
  28. monikamanchanda says

    December 30, 2009 at 8:53 pm

    next batch next xmas 🙂

    Reply
  29. monikamanchanda says

    December 30, 2009 at 8:54 pm

    he he whenever u are coming to blore swaram as u are inviting only pixie to Hyderabad 🙂

    Reply
  30. monikamanchanda says

    December 30, 2009 at 8:54 pm

    shail thanks

    Reply
  31. monikamanchanda says

    December 30, 2009 at 8:54 pm

    cheers abha !!

    Reply
  32. monikamanchanda says

    December 30, 2009 at 8:55 pm

    oh yes that is what it was melt in mouth types

    Reply
  33. Pixie says

    December 31, 2009 at 8:07 am

    yea! that she has! 😛
    others are all just dropping in at her place uninvited!! 😉

    Reply
  34. monika says

    December 31, 2009 at 12:37 pm

    yum yum

    Reply
  35. maald says

    January 2, 2010 at 9:03 am

    looks like another comment of mine (on gallstone flush) went into your spam

    Reply
  36. Smitha says

    January 4, 2010 at 3:11 pm

    Here I was trying to stay away from baking and I get to see this yummy sounding recipe 🙂

    Just one question, Monika- what size cake tin did you use for this?

    Reply
  37. sri says

    January 6, 2010 at 3:45 pm

    yummy 🙂

    Reply
  38. Pallavi Singh says

    November 17, 2017 at 6:57 am

    I am a cake lover and i really wanna try my hands at it :). I have a microwave . Can I bake the same cake using the same procedure in microwave as well? Looks yummmm …

    Reply
  39. Annu Kuruvilla says

    December 28, 2019 at 1:23 am

    Does nt this cake need caramel syrup?.how will you get that color?

    Reply
    • monika says

      December 28, 2019 at 7:31 am

      Use of brown sugar and soaked fruits will give you the color

      Reply

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Monika is an ex-IT person turned into a food blogger, consultant, home baker and an amateur food photographer. She loves music, writing, food, and travel, but not necessarily in that order ;)

Sin-A-Mon Tales is a canvas for her food memories. Apart from Sin -A- Mon Tales, Monika also writes for many online websites and publications. She's an avid reader and can always be found with a book in her bag, which mostly is as bright as her. She's an obsessive traveler and is always looking for the next food story. Read More…

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