Fruit cake recipe with lots of mixed dry fruits and nuts and spices. No rum soaking part or egg in this recipe.I love fruit cake we get in bakeries, past two years, I have been buying fruit cake loaf in the local bakery available here and love it. We get 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.
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. I replaced egg with curd. I 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.
Eggless fruit cake recipe
Recipe Cuisine: Indian | Recipe Category: Dessert
Prep Time: Overnight soaking + 15 mins | Cook time: 45 mins | Serves: 6
Prep Time: Overnight soaking + 15 mins | Cook time: 45 mins | Serves: 6
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Ingredients
Plain flour/ Maida – 1 & 1/4 cup
Butter – 1/2 cup
Sugar* – 3/4 cup
Dry fruits, mixed – 1 cup
Nuts**, chopped – 1/4 cup
Orange juice – 3/4 cup
Plain yogurt/ curd – 3 tbsp
Baking powder- 1/2 tsp
Baking soda – 1/4 tsp
Orange zest – 1 tsp
Cinnamon powder – 1/2 tsp
Clove powder – 1/4 tsp
Nutmeg powder – 1/8 tsp
Salt – 1/4 tsp
Butter – 1/2 cup
Sugar* – 3/4 cup
Dry fruits, mixed – 1 cup
Nuts**, chopped – 1/4 cup
Orange juice – 3/4 cup
Plain yogurt/ curd – 3 tbsp
Baking powder- 1/2 tsp
Baking soda – 1/4 tsp
Orange zest – 1 tsp
Cinnamon powder – 1/2 tsp
Clove powder – 1/4 tsp
Nutmeg powder – 1/8 tsp
Salt – 1/4 tsp
*I used 1/2 cup unrefined sugar, 1/4 cup brown sugar
**I used chopped cashew nuts and roasted almonds.
Step by step method
- 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 tbsp for later (or can use fresh orange juice too). Add 1/4 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.
Tips
- 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.
Soft, rich and flavourful buttery fruit cake. Perfect to make for Christmas or your kids evening snack /school snack box too. 
Yummy, what are the dry fruits you used; tutti fruti?
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 ..
Yes this one is thick batter, but it is very light since we beat and fold, not heavy 🙂
Sultanas, raisins, candied orange peels, glazed cherries, tutti fruit were there in it. I used readymade mixed fruit
Hi
Can u plz tell me how to make this in a cooker
Lovely looking cake! What size cake tin have you used?
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
6 inch ☺
Tried this out today,came out really yum
Made three cakes. All the time it came out well and yummy. Tnx
Tried this out for Christmas. Came out really well. Thanks for sharing this awesome, egg less recipe. Wish you a very happy new year!!
THank you so much 🙂
Thanks a lot for your feedback 🙂 Wishing you the same!
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.
Yes, but sugar free juices.
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
Hi Raks, just one more doubt, what are the temperatures for baking the same in microwave?
If you mean microwave convection mode, it's same. If you mean microwave mode, this is not the recipe.
If i want to use egg instead of curd how many eggs should i use?
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.
Hi Raks, I generally do not use all purpose flour. can I replace it with whole wheat flour? Will any other measurements change accordingly?
My be the liquid content is needed more. Otherwise no change.
You can google vegan substitute for butter, yogurt and use it in the recipe.
Hello raks can I just double the ingredients to get a big cake??
What is the measurement for cup in grams?
Really sorry I don't know.
So sorry, I don't have kitchen scale. My 1 cup holds 240ml of liquid. So I use it
Yes sure
Hi, pls let me know how many eggs can be used in place of yogurt
3 eggs… You can refer the links I have given in the post (check post intro)
My cake got little soggy/ sticky . What shall I do next time.
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.
What orange juice you used? Natural or store bought?
I used natural.