Thursday, July 20, 2017

Plum Cake

Plum Cake
Plum Cake
Preparation time- 10 mins
Cooking time-  35 mins 
Total time- 45 mins

Ingredients :
  1. Corn flour-3 tsp
  2. All purpose flour/Maida- 1 cup
  3. Baking powder-1 tsp
  4. Salt-1/2 tsp
  5. Egg-3 no.
  6. Powdered sugar- 1 cup
  7. Vanilla essence-1 tsp
  8. Butter- 20 gm
  9. Milk- 2 tsp
  10. Cloves-2
  11. Nutmeg-1
  12. Raisins- 50 gm
  13. Cashew nuts- 50gm
  14.  Rum/Wine- 100 ml
Method:
Pre-preparation
  1. Soak raisins and cashewnuts in rum/wine in a glass bottle for a week.
  2. For caramel solution, take a pan, put sugar and butter, stir it in low flame. When it melts, add warm water
Step 1: Take maida, corn flour, baking powder, powdered nutmeg and cloves and salt in a strainer,sift it two times and keep it aside.

Step 2: Take three eggs and powdered sugar in a bowl, stir it well and double boil it until the sugar dissolves. Using handheld electric beater, beat it continuously till the mixture turns into thick paste. Then, add vanilla essence and caramel solution and mix it well with beater.

Step 3:Take butter and milk in a bowl and heat it in microwave mode at 540 F for 2 minutes and allow it to cool.

Step 4:Add sifted flour, soaked raisins, cashew nuts and melted butter into beaten mixture. Fold it gently with wooden spatula. Take cake pan, apply butter liberally and dust it with maida and spread butter paper. Pour the prepared mixture in the cake pan and tap it on both sides to expel the air bubbles.

Step 5: Pre heat the oven at 180 Degree Celsius and bake the cake in conventional mode at 180 Degree Celsius for 35 minutes. After 35 minutes, insert a long stick into the baked cake and withdraw it. If the stick is sticky, you have to bake it for another 5-10 minutes.

Step 6: Take the pan from oven and allow it to cool.

This cake is very soft and even if you keep it in refrigerator for 2-3 days, still it will be very soft....really!!
Suggestions
'Please be noted that mothers, who are pregnant and lactating should avoid during this period, as it contains alcohol.'
Diet for diabetic persons
  • Reduce sugar to half amount, as it increases blood sugar level
  • Suggest for minimum intake
  • Reduce butter, as it increases cholesterol level
Diet for hypertensive persons
  • Reduce sugar to half amount, as it increases blood sugar level
  • Suggest for minimum intake
  • Reduce butter, as it increases cholesterol level
Diet for cardiac persons
  • Reduce sugar to half amount, as it increases blood sugar level
  • Suggest for minimum intake
  • Reduce butter, as it increases cholesterol level
Diet for kids
  • Suggest minimum intake for kids, as it contains baking powder.                  Now, plum cake is ready