Plum Cake Recipe | No Soak Non Alcoholic Fruit Cake Recipe

Wealthy British Plum Cake is a Christmas traditional fruit cake made with dried fruits, raisins, nuts & oranges. The cake is required no-alcohol, no soaking of fruits in prior. It’s an easy boiled plum cake recipe which could be made under 2 hours from start to complete. Learn how one can make fail-proof classic plum cake with detailed recipe, step-by-step pictures and video.

Plum Cake

Making plum cake is our holiday tradition. I never skip a single 12 months without making a fruit cake at home. I actually have made so many version of fruit cake previously and have shared on this blog. A number of the hottest recipes are my chocolate fruit cake, traditional fruit cake with alcohol, eggless fruit cake.

About Plum Cake

Plum cake is a conventional Kerala fruit cake. It’s made with mixture of number of dried fruits, nuts and spices. This version of plum cake involves no soaking of fruits in alcohol. It’s also often called Boiled fruit cake, where dried fruits are boiled in orange juice and added into cake. The cake has number of Christmas dried fruits including seedless black raisins, dates, prunes, tutti frutti, candied mixed peels and orange zest. Spices like cinnamon, cloves, dry ginger and cardamom adds the heat which the cake needs. 

Although this cake has no alcohol in it, It taste absolutely delicious and moist. This plum cake could be made out of start to complete in under 30 mins minus the baking time. Every year I try making different version fruit cake recipes for Christmas. This 12 months it’s a wealthy British plum cake recipe and turned out super delicious. This recipe makes 8 inch round cake and this particular recipe gives you an ideal one hefty cake. Should you don’t have oven, you possibly can check my chocolate fruit cake recipe which is made in a pan. 

This recipe for plum cake is so popular in and around Tamilnadu, Kerala & other parts of India. It has all of the festive flavours within the cake. 

Watch Me Make Plum Cake (Video)

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Plum Cake Ingredients 

Plain Flour – for best tasting plum cake, use plain flour which ends up in tender yet moist fruit cake. Should you want fruit cake made with wheat flour, check this whole wheat fruit cake recipe.

Sugar – sugar is utilized in caramel in addition to within the cake batter. I used refined white sugar on this recipe. 

Eggs – eggs is crucial for making the cake soft and tender. You may check my eggless fruit cake for vegetarian option.

Butter – use soft butter which helps with the moistness of the cake. You should utilize salted or unsalted butter. Should you are using salted butter, skip adding salt.

Spice Powders – ground spices like cinnamon, cloves, cardamom and ginger are the fundamental spices that goes in a plum cake. You may add pumpkin pie spice mix if you have got that available.

Orange Juice – I used 1 cup of orange juice which I squeezed from fresh oranges to boil the dried fruits. 

Flavourings – orange zest and vanilla are the flavourings. 

What Dried Fruits to Use in Plum Cake

Raisins – You might have to make use of seedless black raisins in plum cake. Raisins with seeds just isn’t really helpful. You may add a handful of sultanas within the cake.

Dates – chop dates into small pieces which helps make the cake soft.

Tutti frutti – tutti frutti helps adding texture within the cake.

Candied fruits – mixture of dried pineapple, kiwi, strawberries, candied citrus peel adds flavour to the cake.

Prunes – prunes helps to maintain the cake incredibly moist. 

Nuts – chop cashews or almonds into small pieces and add in cake. 

Why this Plum Cake is Festive

Quick Fruit Cake

This cake needs no soaking of fruits in rum for a month. It may be made under half-hour excluding baking time. Should you feel like you would like a festive fruit cake, you possibly can make this cake in a jiffy.  It’s an easy fruit cake which is ideal for busy holiday season.

No Alcohol Needed

It is a non alcohol cake so even kids can relish. The cake is made with fruits, nuts and spices. The dried fruits is cooked in orange juice and added within the cake batter. 

Taste Great

Furthermore ultimately everyone wants is a best, moist, fruity and delicious fruit cake. That is the one you’re in search of. 

Learn how to Make Plum Cake (6 Easy Steps)

Pre-Preparation – Preheat oven to 180 degree c. Line a 8 inch round pan with parchment paper. Grease it evenly with oil and put aside.

Boiling Dry Fruits – Now take all dried fruits in a pan.  Add 1 cup of orange juice and blend well. cook it for five mins. Put aside cool.

Making Caramel – Now in a separate pan take sugar and cook on medium heat till it caramelise. Add ¼ cup water and blend well till smooth. Put aside to chill. 

Dry Ingredients- Take flour, baking soda, spices in a bowl and blend well. Put aside till use. 

Plum Cake Batter – Now in a bowl, take butter, sugar, orange zest and vanilla and cream for two minutes. Add in eggs and blend well. Add within the flour mixture, dried fruits, caramel and fold the batter gently till combined. 

Baking – Spoon the batter into the pan and bake for 45 mins and 1 hour. Remove and funky completely within the pan. Un mould the cake from pan and revel in.

Expert Suggestions

• You should utilize any dried fruits and nuts you like. But raisins are essential for perfect tasting plum cake.
• As an alternative of orange juice for boiling the fruits, you should utilize rum or any liquor of selection.
• You may reduce the amount of dried fruits.
• Don’t over bake the cake, else it could turn hard. 

Learn how to Make Plum Cake (Stepwise Pictures)

Pre-preparation

1)Preheat oven to 180 degree C. Line a 8 inch (20 cm) round cake pan with parchment paper. Grease the parchment paper with some oil or butter and put aside.

Boil Dry Fruits

2)Take seedless black raisin, dates, dried mixed fruits, candied citrus peel in a pan.

3)Add in prunes, tutti frutti in the identical pan. You may add any dry fruits in a pan.

4)I removed the pulp of the orange in a blender and puree till smooth. Add this orange juice into the dry fruits and warmth this for 3 to 4 minutes till the dry fruits gets soft.

5)Now the dried fruits has turned soft. Set this dried fruits aside till it gets cool.

Make Caramel

6) Dark caramel is crucial for making plum cake. The caramel adds flavour and color to the cake. Take a frying pan, add sugar and cook till it gets caramelised. For making smooth caramel, don’t stir the sugar with spoon or spatula as a substitute just swirl the pan which makes all of the sugar get golden in color.

7)Once the sugar turns dark amber in color. Add in ¼ cup water and swirl the pan again till it gets smooth. Watch out if you add water to the recent caramel as it could splatter on you.

8)Now dark caramel is prepared. Put aside to get warm.

Dry Ingredients

9)When the dry fruits and caramel is getting cool, let’s mix the dry ingredients together. Take flour in a bowl. Add in baking soda to plain flour.

10)Add in ground cinnamon, nutmeg, dry ginger and ground cardamom into the flour.

11)Mix this well and put aside. That is your dry ingredients.

Make Plum Cake Batter

12)Take a big mixing bowl. Add softened butter (I used salted butter), sugar.

13) Add in grated orange zest and vanilla extract to the butter and sugar.

14)Cream butter and sugar for two to three minutes till it gets creamy.

15)Add in two eggs into the butter and sugar mixture.

16)Mix eggs into the creamed butter and sugar.

17)Add within the dry flour mixture into the egg butter mixture.

18)Now lets add in all of the ingredients. Add in chopped cashews. You may add any nuts.

19)Add within the boiled dried fruits.

20)Pour within the caramel.

21)Mix the dry fruits into the flour so that you get a thick batter.

22)Spoon the batter into the prepared cake pan. Place it into the preheated oven and bake for 1 hour. Sometimes it could take upto 1 hour and 10 minutes.

23)Once the cake is baked, remove it from oven and funky it completely. Gently remove the plum cake from the pan and slice.

24)Enjoy super moist fruit cake.

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