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Eggless Fruit Cake Recipe, Eggless Plum Cake

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I know it’s really really lame to post an eggless fruit cake recipe right after Christmas and I wasn’t really meaning to do it. But then I realised I will have to wait a whole year and I was positive I would forget the recipe and my notes if I postponed this recipe that long so here goes.

Eggless Fruit Cake Recipe, Eggless Plum Cake

I shared Omana Paul’s Plum Cake Recipe last year and quite a few people have tried it and shared feedback. However, as with any other cake recipe, I also got a ton of requests for an eggless plum cake recipe.

I don’t like slaving over anything in the kitchen and most of the recipes I saw online for eggless plum cakes were lengthy and required quite a lot of ingredients. So I decided to adapt what I thought looked good and make it simpler. I am super happy with the result although the top of my cake burned a little bit.

I should’ve covered the baking tray with some aluminium foil but I realised I was all out of foil and just had to leave the cake to its fate. It didn’t turn out too bad though, the slight bitterness added more character to the cake 😉

Eggless Fruit Cake Recipe, Eggless Plum Cake

I baked mini loaves of these eggless plum cakes to give away and kept just 3 pieces for TH and I. I didn’t take step by step pictures either but will surely update it as soon as I bake these again. This recipe is loosely adapted from Food.com.

Check here for more Christmas recipes including no bake chocolate biscuit balls, chocolate crinkle cookies, tutti frutti cake, etc.

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Eggless Plum Cake, Eggless Fruit Cake Recipe
 
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Eggless plum cake or fruit cake for Christmas for those allergic to eggs or can't consume it as part of their diet. Perfect for the holiday or Christmas season!
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Recipe type: Dessert
Cuisine: Indian
Serves: One 8" Cake
Ingredients
  • 1.5 cups of all-purpose flour (maida)
  • ½ cup of dark brown sugar (white sugar may also work but colour will be lighter)
  • 1 cup of mixed dry fruits like raisins, sultanas, dates, cherries, tutti frutti, etc
  • 2 tbsp of finely chopped cashew nuts
  • 2 tsp of baking powder
  • 1 tsp of baking soda
  • 1 tsp of vanilla extract (or 1 tsp orange or lemon zest works better)
  • 1 tsp of mixed spices like cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice, etc
  • ½ cup of unsalted butter
  • 2.5 tbsp of any neutral oil (like veg oil)
  • A pinch of salt
  • ⅔ cup water
Instructions
  1. Pre-heat oven to 350F / 180C. Grease and line an 8" cake pan or muffin tray / mini loaf pan, whatever you prefer.
  2. Bring the water to boil in a pan and add the dry fruits (leave out the tutti frutti if using them) and the sugar.
  3. Simmer for about 7-10 mins until the dates have softened ,yet don't turn mushy.
  4. Turn off heat, remove the pan and set aside for 5 mins to cool slightly.
  5. Then, add the butter, vanilla (or citrus zest) and baking soda. The mixture will foam a bit, that's normal and fine.
  6. Set aside to cool.
  7. In another bowl, sift together the flour, baking powder, and salt.
  8. Add the spice powders and mix well to combine.
  9. To this, add the cashew nuts and tutti frutti, if using. You can also add some chopped glazed cherries at this stage if you'd like
  10. Add the cooled fruit mixture to the flour mixture and add the oil.
  11. Gently fold until the batter has no flour streaks left in in it.
  12. Pour into the prepared cake pan and bake in the pre-heated oven for about 50 mins.
  13. If the top seems to be cooking too quickly, loosely cover the cake tray with aluminium foil and leave a slit in the middle for air to escape.
  14. Let cool in the pan for 15 minutes before transferring to a cooling rack.
  15. Cool completely before slicing and store in airtight containers.

Notes:

– this eggless plum cake is denser than your regular cakes so don’t expect light and fluffy. Think a moist, dense, and delicious fruit cake!

– you can add a tablespoon or two of rum or brandy to the cake and make it taste “better”.

– the cake is sweet on its own but if you want to frost it, reduce the amount of sugar in the cake batter.

– I got a few questions on the colour of the eggless fruit cake. Mine is a darker brown because I used very dark and moist brown sugar. Also, my dates were a dark colour as were the raisins (and I used a lot of raisins). These are the two reasons why I feel the colour of the cake may be affected. I should also probably add that the top of my cake burnt a little giving it that almost black colour. Usually the colour of fruit cake comes from caramelising sugar which we don’t do in this cake. You can definitely do that though, just follow steps in my Christmas fruit cake recipe.

For eggless fruit cake recipe in Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu, Urdu, etc please use the Google translate button in the sidebar.

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  2. Hi Nags, can I use rum soaked fruits in this cake and follow the same procedure of soaking with Rum once baked like we do for cakes with eggs?

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  5. i make this for every X’mas ….since last 4-5 years!!!! comes out very well..
    a wonderful recipe !!!
    i come 2 your space , every year…this time……………to brush up the recipe details 🙂
    just looking for a tip … 1 cup is 200 ml or 250 ml ? wnt 2 make this year too for the x’mas season .
    Merry Christmas…………Valli

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  6. Butter that u have used is salted or unsalted ??
    How to get little darker colour for the cake ?
    What is carmelisation used for n how to do ?

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    • unsalted butter. the darker colour comes from using dark brown sugar and the dates and dry fruits. this recipe doesn’t require caramelisation. you can check the regular fruit cake recipe to check on how to caramelise sugar for fruit cakes.

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  8. Many thanks as I tried this cake and it turned out super yummy, however, I did not get a nice deep brown color that you got on yours? What do you think might be missing?

    Also, I now want to make this for a larger crowd and was planning on tripling the size – in that case, would all ingredients need to be 3X? Thanks again!

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    • the colour really depends on the amount of caramelisation of the sugar; and yes, for making a larger cake you can double or triple the ingredients accordingly 🙂

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  17. Hai,
    is 1 cup=200ml or 240/250 ml? can u specify?? 'coz…. in the orange cake post u have replied to one of the visitors as 1 cup measurement = 200ml. Is it same 4r this recipe too??
    Wishing U a very Happy New Year…2013.
    regards, Valli.

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