Christmas Plum Cake

Christmas plum cake is a vital part of Christmas celebration in many countries. The best part about it is that is does not require effort to make a plum cake. Unlike other Christmas cakes, you can make it at the last moment also. Plum cakes appear simple but are too delicious to resist. For all those you are health conscious, plum cake is the best dessert as it has very less fat content than the other cakes and it does not have cream in it.

Christmas is a busy time and you need to manage your twenty-four hours to do many important jobs. Therefore, you cannot spend all of it making a Christmas cake. So, this Christmas try out the Christmas plum cake. Read the following lines and you will find two interesting and delicious Christmas plum cakes recipes.

1. Christmas Plum Cake Recipe
   • Ingredients
     • Flour -200 grams
     • Almonds - 100 grams
     • Castor sugar - 200 grams
     • Butter - 200 grams
     • Dry grapes or raisins - 50 grams
     • Shajeera - 2 teaspoons
     • Orange peel - 50 grams
     • Baking soda - 2 teaspoon
     • Eggs - 6
     • Cherries - 50 grams
     • Cashews - 100 grams
     • Margarine - 200 grams
     • Caramel syrup - 1 cup
     • Powdered nutmeg - a pinch
     • Cake Mixture - 2 teaspoons (available in bakeries and grocery shops)
     • Ginger(soaked in sugar syrup) - 50 grams

   • Method
     • Take a bowl and beat the eggs in it.
     • Take another bowl and beat butter and sugar well.
     • Now, mix fruits that are finely chopped, sieved flour, cooking soda and baking soda.
     • Now add shajeera, cake masala to the mixture of butter.
     • Add caramel syrup to the beaten eggs to get a foamy mixture.
     • Now add this to the flour mixture and thicken it to form a cake mixture.
     • Next, pour it into a greased baking bowl and bake at 160 deg. C for at least twenty minutes.

2. Gluten Free Plum Cake Recipe
   • Ingredients
     • 1/2 cup butter at room temperature
     • 1/2 tsp cinnamon
     • 1 cup gluten-free flour mix
     • 1/2 tsp salt
     • cinnamon sugar ( you can make this by adding two tbsp grated sugar with one tbsp cinnamon powder
     • 2 eggs
     • 1 cup sugar2 tsp fresh lemon juice
     • 1 tsp baking powder

   • Method
     • Take a bowl and cream butter, sugar and lemon juice for two minutes.
     • Add eggs one by one after creaming the mixture properly.
     • Now take a baking pan, put gluten free flour, baking powder, cinnamon and salt in it and mix it.
     • After it is properly mixed add sugar to it and beat well.
     • Then sprinkle with cinnamon powder as per your desire.
     • Bake it at 375 degrees for about 45 minutes. You can know that the cake is baked by looking at its surface you will find that the cake comes out separately from the pan. These two Christmas plum cakes will surely make your Christmas sweet and memorable.