Eggless plum cake

Name: Eggless plum cake
Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients: 1 1/2 cups wheat flour or all-purpose flour; 1 cup dry fruits chopped (cashew nuts, resin, walnut, almond,pistachio, dates, black khismis, cherry); 1 cup orange juice; 1 cup sugar; 3/4 cup oil / butter; 1/2 cup milk; Pinch salt; 1 tsp baking soda; 1 1/2 tsp baking powder; 1 tsp cinnamon powder; 1/2 tsp nutmeg powder; 2 tsp orange zest; 1 tbsp cocoa powder

Puspita Bhutia @cook_19479414

Plum cakes are usually prepared during Christmas using lots of Rum shoked dry fruits. Here I prepared this cake with whole wheat, used orange juice and caramel syrup as substitute of Egg and Rum. Using caramel syrup is enhance the colour and taste of the cake .

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Puspita Bhutia @cook_19479414

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Ingredients

1 1/2 cupswheat flour or all-purpose flour
1 cupdry fruits chopped (cashew nuts, resin, walnut, almond,pistachio, dates, black khismis, cherry)
1 cuporange juice
1 cupsugar
3/4 cupoil / butter
1/2 cupmilk
Pinchsalt
1 tspbaking soda
1 1/2 tspbaking powder
1 tspcinnamon powder
1/2 tspnutmeg powder
2 tsp orange zest
1 tbspcocoa powder

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Steps

1

For soaking the dry fruits__ finely chopped all dry fruits. Transfer to a big bowl add one cup of orange juice (fresh or canned) and keep it in refrigerator for overnight or at least 4 hours.
2

Take all dry ingredients wheat flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon powder, nutmeg powder salt and shive 2 to 3 times that all ingredients are mixed with each other properly. Keep aside.
3

Now make caramel syrup, for this take 1 cup of sugar in a pan and cook it on medium flame for 4 to 5 minutes without disturbing it.
4

When sugar melts completely and becomes caramelized add 1/2 cup water in to it carefully, (otherwise this become hard when cool)Mix it well and keep aside to cool down completely.
5

Now add soaked dry fruits into dry ingredients, don't add all the orange juice add a time.
6

Now add oil, add little amounts of caramel syrup at a time and mix everything to make the better for cake. Add caramel syrup and orange juice gradually. This plum cake better is generally little thik than other cake.
7

Greased cake tin with oil and dust with flour, pour cake better 3/4 of cake tin, tap gently to release air and make the mixture smooth.
8

Pre heat microwave on 180°c on convection mood and bake the cake for 60 to 80 minutes. Though every microwave have different temperature settings check the cake in between. You can bake this cake in akadai or a pressure cooker too.
9

We no need to add more sugar separately as orange juice, caramel syrup and dates has sufficient sweetness.