This Eggless Fruit Cake without Alcohol, an easy to assemble rich fruit cake, is non-alcoholic, refined sugar-free, and full of dry fruits, nuts, and berries. With the right crumble, this makes a delicious Christmas cake!
Course Desserts
Cuisine Indian
Keyword Easy Christmas Bakes
By Cook Method Oven
Occasion Christmas
By Diet Eggless, Healthy Recipes, Vegetarian
Dish Type Eggless Cakes
Prep Time 20 minutesminutes
Cook Time 45 minutesminutes
Soaking Time 8 hourshours
Total Time 9 hourshours5 minutesminutes
Servings 16pieces
Calories 323kcal
Author Srivalli
Ingredients
For the Soak
1cupDry Fruits and Berries refer notes
1cupOrange JuiceFresh with a mix of Mosambi and Kamala
Sort out all the dry fruits, berries, and nuts you are going to use.
Chop all the nuts into bits, chop the dry fruits were required.
Make fresh juice with Mosambi and Kamala, extract the thick juice, add to a bowl.
Add the chopped nuts, fruits, and berries to the fresh orange juice. Cover the bowl and keep it aside for about 7 to 8 hours.
If you are planning to make it early morning, you can always soak this in the fridge overnight.
After the soak is ready, you can begin by making the batter
Making the Cake batter
Grease a 9inch circle baking tray and dust with flour. Tap down to remove excess flour. You can also line with parchment paper.
Warm the milk and add Vinegar to it, keep it aside for it to curdle.
Measure the butter and microwave for 2 minutes in spurts of a minute for it to melt completely.
Sieve the flours along with baking soda, baking powder into the mixing bowl.
Add the brown sugar and mix well.
Add the soaked fruits and nuts along with the juice.
Next, add the butter and mix well.
Now stir the milk, vinegar mix, and add to the bowl.
Using the spatula, mix everything well.
Add the spice powder, vanilla essence
Spread the batter into the prepared pan.
Bake in a preheated oven for 50 mins at 180C.
My cake started getting browned on top and the knife came out clean.
So I switched it off at 45 mins.
Allow it to cool completely before serving.
Notes
I used 1/2 cup of raisins, and the remaining was filled with dried cranberries, dried cherries, tutti fruit, 4 dried apricots, 4 dried figs, and 6 dates.Two fists of dried berries that had strawberries along with other berries.For fresh juice, I used a mix of Mosambi and Kamala. Kamala is a hybdrid orange between pomelo (Citrus maxima) and mandarin (Citrus reticulata). The Kamalas is in season during this season and I didn't want to miss using it.For the spice powders, I used 3/4 teaspoon Punjabi Garam Masala.