Christmas Cake

About Christmas Cake

Ingredients

• Refined flour (maida) 2 cups + to dust
• Softened butter 100 gms + to grease
• Brown sugar ½ cup
• Sweetened condensed milk 400 gms
• Raisins, Apricots, Dried blueberries, Almonds, Walnuts, Cashewnuts, Pistachios, finely chopped 1½ cups
• Cinnamon powder ½ tbsp
• Nutmeg powder ½ tsp
• Grape Juice Concoction (grape juice boiled with orange rind and cinnamon) as required
• Icing sugar to sprinkle

How to Make Christmas Cake (Stepwise Photos)

Method

1. Preheat oven to 180º C. Grease a spring bottom cake tin with butter and dust with some flour.
2. Take butter in a mixing bowl, add brown sugar and mix. Add condensed milk and beat with an electric beater.
3. Sieve refined flour and baking powder into the bowl and mix with a spatula.
4. Add raisins, apricots, dried blueberries, walnuts, almonds, cashewnuts, pistachios, cinnamon powder and nutmeg powder and mix well.
5. Add sufficient Grape Juice concoction (grape juice boiled with orange rind and cinnamon) and beat with an electric beater.
6. Transfer the batter into the greased cake tin. Keep the tin in the preheated oven and bake for 40-45 minutes
7. Take the cake tin out of the oven and let it cool. Demould and place it on a cake stand.
8. Sprinkle icing sugar on it through a sieve, cut into wedges and serve on a serving platter.

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Chaitrali Deshmukh

Thank you for the amazing instructions.

I have success w/ my dosa but does not last long stored in the refrigerator.

Maybe I am fermenting for too long, or add the salt before the rise?

I also was wondering if it is important to blend separately or can it be blended all together?

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Chef Saransh Goila

Hi Chaitrali,
Yes, cut down the fermentation time and add salt only to the required portion at the time of making the dosa. Also storing in smaller containers just enough for a day helps. Once the batter in a larger container is disturbed (by stirring or scooping out a little etc), I feel it turns sour faster. You can blend them together if you want. But we do it separately because we want the dal batter to become fluffy and the rice batter slightly coarse. Fluffy dal batter makes the dosas light and coarse rice batter makes them extra crispy without making the dosas hard. Hope this helps