Plum cake from coconut water (alcohol free)

Plumcake from coconut water (alcohol-free)

Plumcake from coconut water (alcohol-free)

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. Coconut water- 100 ml
15. Yeast- 1/2 tsp
16. Instant coffee powder- 1 tsp  

Method:
Pre-preparation

1. Add yeast and one teaspoon of sugar in coconut water
2. Soak raisins and cashew nuts in coconut water in a glass bottle for 24 hours.
3. For caramel solution, take a pan, put sugar and butter, stir it in low flame. When it melts, add warm water. 
4. Add coffee powder in 2 tsp of warm water and keep it aside. 

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, coffee 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.

Plum cake from coconut water (alcohol free)

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 a refrigerator for 2-3 days, still it will be very soft....really!!

Tips and warnings

• For baking cakes, use medium height metal rack

Suggestions
Antenatal diet

• Reduce sugar to half amount, as it increases blood sugar level
• Suggest for minimum intake
• Reduce butter, as it increases cholesterol level

Diet for lactating mothers

• Reduce sugar to half amount, as it increases blood sugar level
• Suggest for minimum intake
• Reduce butter, as it increases cholesterol level

Postnatal diet

• Reduce sugar to half amount, as it increases blood sugar level
• Suggest for minimum intake
• Reduce butter, as it increases cholesterol level

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.