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    Eggless fruit cake recipe, Christmas cake recipe

    Updated on November 23, 2021 by Raks Anand 36 Comments / Jump to Recipe

    Eggless fruit cake or Christmas cake recipe with lots of mixed dry fruits and nuts and spices. No rum soaking part or egg in this recipe.

    eggless Christmas fruit cake
    Eggless fruit cake | Christmas cake recipe

    Rich, dense and flavorful Festive fruit cake with lots of dry fruits nuts. A slice of cake is heaven in plate.

    Check out these Banana chocolate chip cake recipe and Microwave single serving Chocolate cake in my website.

    Jump to:
    • 🎂 Bakery style
    • 🍷 No rum
    • 🥚 Egg replacement
    • 💬 FAQs
    • Pressure cooker
    • Related posts
    • Recipe card
    • Stepwise photos

    🎂 Bakery style

    I love fruit cake we get in bakeries back in Indian. Past two years, I have been buying fruit cake loaf in the local bakery available here and love it. But we used to get a different rich and dark plum cake in Indian bakeries.

    In TN, we get this plum cake without any rum in it. Still it will be rich, dark and so flavorful that will be so different from the fruit cake we get here. If I crack that, will sure post it.

    This is very close to it and really delicious and rich fruit cake with nuts. I wanted to bake Christmas cake for a long time, but never got guts to try as I had no straight forward simple recipe.

    Every year, I browse for recipes, but somehow drop the plan. This year too, I started browsing for Christmas fruit cake a month before but ended up trying this much late.

    🍷 No rum

    Festive fruit cake means it usually have Rum, brandy or whisky fed for a long time in regular intervals, way ahead of Christmas. But this one is without any of these and uses just fresh Orange juice.

    I got this recipe with just few simple ingredients, self raising flour, dry fruits soaked in just orange juice overnight. I loved the idea of soaking in orange juice just for night. Later noticed it had no sugar in it.

    But since I am trying for first time I thought I should try the proper recipe with sugar in it. So I adapted the recipe a little from here and here. So took those 3 recipes and baked to suit my taste and convenience.

    🥚 Egg replacement

    I replaced egg with curd. Was not sure how it would turn until it got baked and until I tasted. It was really good as I buy from here. Aj too loved it sans nuts. He asked me to bake this again for his birthday without nuts.

    It wash a bit on dry side, next time I would adjust with a tablespoon of more liquid in the cake batter for it to hold better. But I won't complain as this way I loved the texture a lot as well.

    eggless Christmas cake

    💬 FAQs

    What are the dry fruits used in this recipe?

    I used readymade mixed fruit (Silver bird or Red man works best) Sultanas, raisins, candied orange peels, glazed cherries, tutti fruit were there in it.

    Can we use store bought orange juice for soaking?

    Yes, but I recommend using fresh juice as we are already compromising a lot in this recipe like rum, egg or anything.

    What's size of pan is good for this cake recipe?

    6 Inch or 6.5 inch works.

    Why my cake is too crumbly?

    Less wet ingredients. You can adjust one or two tablespoon of liquid in this recipe.

    Why my cake cracked too much on top?

    You are over mixing the batter. Make sure to just use the folding technique while mixing wet and dry ingredients together, instead of using a whisk.

    Can I do this same recipe in microwave mode?

    This recipe is for convection mode baking. Microwave oven in convection mode is fine but not in microwave mode. Also take a note to use microwave safe dish otherwise some ovens might give spark while trying to bake.

    Do let me know any other doubts if you have in comments, I will share what I know.

    Pressure cooker

    Can we bake this cake in Pressure cooker?

    Definitely yes. Follow the steps below to make cake in pressure cooker stove top:

    • Follow the same method in the recipe. But instead of baking in a oven, place it inside pressure cooker.
    • Firstly, remove the gasket and pressure valve (whistle) in the lid.
    • Heat over medium flame (No water or anything) for 15 mins with lid closed.
    • Once hot, carefully place a plate (trivet) that comes with pressure cooker in the bottom.
    • Place the baking pan over it carefully. You can also use a vessel, not that you need a baking pan. But make sure it's wide and not tall for easy cooking inside.
    • Close with lid and put the flame to low. Cook for 40 to 50 mins or until a knife inserted comes out clean.
    • Be cautious as the cooker will be too hot, so handle with care.
    • I also suggest to keep a old cooker separately for this as the cooker's life time may be affected because of dry heating.

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    Recipe card

    eggless Christmas fruit cake
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    Eggless Christmas cake recipe

    Eggless fruit cake recipe with lots of mixed dry fruits and nuts and spices. No rum soaking part or egg in this recipe.
    Course Dessert
    Cuisine Global
    Prep Time 15 minutes minutes
    Cook Time 45 minutes minutes
    Soaking time 12 hours hours
    Servings 6
    Cup measurements

    Ingredients

    • 1.25 cups Plain flour All purpose flour/ maida
    • ½ cup Butter
    • ¾ cup Sugar used ½ cup unrefined sugar, ¼ cup brown sugar
    • 1 cup Dry fruits mixed
    • ¼ cup Nuts chopped, I used cashews and roasted almonds
    • ¾ cup Orange juice
    • 3 tablespoon Plain yogurt Curd
    • ½ teaspoon Baking powder
    • ¼ teaspoon Baking soda
    • 1 teaspoon Orange zest
    • ½ teaspoon Ground Cinnamon
    • ¼ teaspoon Ground Cloves
    • ⅛ teaspoon Nutmeg powder
    • ¼ teaspoon Salt
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    Instructions

    • Soak dry fruits in orange juice overnight. I left in outside at room temperature.
    • Before making the cake next day, drain the juice completely, reserve 3 tablespoon for later (or can use fresh orange juice too). Add ¼ cup flour to the fruit and coat it well.
    • Add chopped nuts to it and keep aside. In a mixing bowl, add remaining 1 cup flour, cinnamon, clove, nutmeg, baking soda, baking powder, salt.
    • Mix well with whisk. Sieve it to ensure even mixing, keep aside.
    • In another bowl, beat butter smoothly. Add sugar and beat until creamy.
    • Add yogurt, orange juice and beat well until creamy.
    • Add sieved flour little by little at a time (in 3-4 parts) and fold (mix with spatula gently) it until mixed.
    • Lastly add dry fruits and nuts with orange zest.
    • Fold it to mix. Pour in a greased, dusted pan.
    • Bake in oven preheated at 180 deg C, for 40 –45 mins or until toothpick inserted inside comes out clean. After 10 mins, invert over wire rack to cool.

    Notes

    • You can bake with fully brown sugar too.
    • Preheat and baking temperature – 180 deg C.
    • I have used a butter paper at the bottom of the pan.
    • If the top part of the cake gets brown too fast, cover it with a butter paper while baking.
    • You can use nuts of your choice, like walnuts, pistachios etc.
    • Make sure to use fresh, good quality baking powder, baking soda.
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    Stepwise photos

    1. Soak dry fruits firstly in orange juice overnight. I left in outside at room temperature.

    step 1 soak dry fruits for eggless fruit cake

    2. Before making the cake next day, drain the juice completely, reserve 3 tablespoon for later (or can use fresh orange juice too). After that add ¼ cup flour to the fruit and coat it well.

    step-2-coat it

    3. Then add chopped nuts to it and keep aside. In a mixing bowl, take remaining 1 cup flour, cinnamon, clove, nutmeg, baking soda, baking powder, salt.

    step-3-dry ingredients

    4. Mix well furthermore with whisk. Sieve it to ensure even mixing, keep aside.

    step-4-sieve

    5. In another bowl, beat butter smoothly. Add sugar and beat until creamy.

    step-5-beat butter, sugar

    6. Furthermore add yogurt, orange juice and beat well until creamy.

    step-6-creamy

    7. Add sieved flour little by little at a time (in 3-4 parts) and fold (mix with spatula gently) it until mixed.

    step-7-fold

    8. Lastly add dry fruits and nuts with orange zest.

    step-8-dry fruits, orange zest

    9. Fold it to mix. Pour in a greased, dusted pan.

    step-9-fold in

    10. Bake in oven preheated at 180 deg C, for 40 –45 mins or until toothpick inserted inside comes out clean. After 10 mins, invert over wire rack to cool.

    step-10-baked eggless fruit cake

    Soft, rich and flavorful buttery fruit cake. Perfect to make for Christmas or your kids evening snack /school snack box too.

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    Reader Interactions

    Comments

    1. Anjana Jayaram

      December 20, 2016 at 11:49 am

      Yummy, what are the dry fruits you used; tutti fruti?

      Reply
    2. RajeeSam

      December 20, 2016 at 12:07 pm

      Awesome Christmas cake recipe...Raji just for baking begginers can you give the cake mxture consistency before start baking this recipe looks little tight cake batter so got doubt with the consistency ..

      Reply
    3. Raks anand

      December 21, 2016 at 7:00 am

      Yes this one is thick batter, but it is very light since we beat and fold, not heavy 🙂

      Reply
    4. Raks anand

      December 21, 2016 at 7:01 am

      Sultanas, raisins, candied orange peels, glazed cherries, tutti fruit were there in it. I used readymade mixed fruit

      Reply
    5. Unknown

      December 22, 2016 at 6:51 am

      Hi
      Can u plz tell me how to make this in a cooker

      Reply
    6. on2thegame

      December 22, 2016 at 9:05 am

      Lovely looking cake! What size cake tin have you used?

      Reply
    7. Raks anand

      December 23, 2016 at 2:37 am

      6.5 inch ☺

      Reply
    8. Raks anand

      December 23, 2016 at 2:31 am

      If you have an indolium metal cooker, spread a layer of sand or rock salt at the bottom of it. Heat it for 10 mins in medium flame over the stove. Put a stand at the bottom. Pour the batter in a greased cooker container or if you have cake pan, pour in it. Place it on top of the stand and cook covered with cooker lid without gasket and whistle. Cook in medium or low flame for 45 mins or until knife inserted comes out clean. Hope I helped you a bit

      Reply
    9. Ani Paul

      December 25, 2016 at 12:42 pm

      5 stars
      Tried this out today,came out really yum

      Reply
    10. esther

      January 05, 2017 at 1:37 pm

      5 stars
      Made three cakes. All the time it came out well and yummy. Tnx

      Reply
    11. Parimala

      January 05, 2017 at 1:38 pm

      5 stars
      Tried this out for Christmas. Came out really well. Thanks for sharing this awesome, egg less recipe. Wish you a very happy new year!!

      Reply
    12. Raks anand

      January 05, 2017 at 1:52 pm

      THank you so much 🙂

      Reply
    13. Raks anand

      January 05, 2017 at 1:59 pm

      Thanks a lot for your feedback 🙂 Wishing you the same!

      Reply
    14. harini

      February 17, 2017 at 2:36 am

      Hi can we use packed juices like real or tropicana orange juice? or fresh juice from oranges is to be used?Cakes tempts me a lot to try.

      Reply
    15. Raks anand

      February 17, 2017 at 2:48 am

      Yes, but sugar free juices.

      Reply
    16. Jothi

      May 09, 2017 at 12:59 am

      Hi I am using the same pan with a lid as urs....but I m getting electric shot inside the oven...is there any reason for it

      Reply
    17. Anjana Jayaram

      July 07, 2017 at 11:39 pm

      Hi Raks, just one more doubt, what are the temperatures for baking the same in microwave?

      Reply
    18. Raks anand

      July 08, 2017 at 12:07 am

      If you mean microwave convection mode, it's same. If you mean microwave mode, this is not the recipe.

      Reply
    19. archana

      December 14, 2017 at 11:20 pm

      If i want to use egg instead of curd how many eggs should i use?

      Reply
    20. Bhargavi Krishnan

      December 14, 2017 at 11:20 pm

      Hello Raks. Love all your recipes. Do you have a recipe to make this cake vegan. I love Christmas fruit cake and I am a vegan. Wondering how to make this cake without incorporating butter and yogurt.

      Reply
    21. sindhu chandran

      December 14, 2017 at 11:20 pm

      Hi Raks, I generally do not use all purpose flour. can I replace it with whole wheat flour? Will any other measurements change accordingly?

      Reply
    22. Raks Kitchen

      December 15, 2017 at 10:31 am

      My be the liquid content is needed more. Otherwise no change.

      Reply
    23. Raks Kitchen

      December 15, 2017 at 10:35 am

      You can google vegan substitute for butter, yogurt and use it in the recipe.

      Reply
    24. Unknown

      December 26, 2017 at 2:58 pm

      Hello raks can I just double the ingredients to get a big cake??

      Reply
    25. jithu

      December 26, 2017 at 2:58 pm

      What is the measurement for cup in grams?

      Reply
    26. Raks Kitchen

      December 26, 2017 at 3:02 pm

      Really sorry I don't know.

      Reply
    27. Raks Kitchen

      December 26, 2017 at 3:03 pm

      So sorry, I don't have kitchen scale. My 1 cup holds 240ml of liquid. So I use it

      Reply
    28. Raks Kitchen

      December 26, 2017 at 3:03 pm

      Yes sure

      Reply
    29. Lekhasree

      December 24, 2019 at 12:11 pm

      Hi, pls let me know how many eggs can be used in place of yogurt

      Reply
      • Raks Anand

        December 24, 2019 at 7:02 pm

        3 eggs... You can refer the links I have given in the post (check post intro)

        Reply
    30. Anita

      December 27, 2019 at 1:33 am

      My cake got little soggy/ sticky . What shall I do next time.

      Reply
      • Raks Anand

        December 28, 2019 at 7:35 am

        Dry ingredients less or the baking powder/ baking soda did not work (try changing to fresh stock or another brand). Hope you followed the recipe to T and the oven was pre heated.

        Reply
    31. Priya

      December 07, 2020 at 9:33 pm

      What orange juice you used? Natural or store bought?

      Reply
      • Raks Anand

        December 08, 2020 at 3:45 pm

        I used natural.

        Reply
    32. Nisha paul

      September 08, 2021 at 2:26 pm

      Can u tell the size of the tin

      Reply
      • Raks Anand

        September 08, 2021 at 4:21 pm

        Mines is 6.5 inches

        Reply

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