Velan's Cuisine Extraordinaire

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Fruit & Nut Cake

Preparation Time : 30 min
Baking Time : 1 hour

Ingredients (for about 750 gms of 1 piece cake) :

- 125 gms Butter
- 125 gms Powdered Sugar
- 125 gms egg (weighed without the shell)
- 175 gms all purpose Flour
- One pinch of Salt
- 1/2 (small) packet of Baking Powder, approx 6 gms)
- 80 gms of dried fruits (grapes, apricot, dates, …)
- 80 gms of dry white grapes marinated in ½ a glass og Rum
- 50 gms Walnuts,
- 50 gms Hazelnut
- 50 gms cashew nuts
- 70 gms tutti-frutti
[You can add much variety of Dry Fruits & Nuts]

- 100 gms of sugar coated whole Cherries (optional)

- Greaseproof paper, One Litre volume Alluminium Cake mould & an Oven

Making & Baking :

1/ Knead butter with powdered sugar. Add one half of the egg and mix well. Then, add the rest of the egg and mix well.

2/ Add baking powder to the flour with a pinch of salt and make a thick dough.

3/ Cut the Dry fruits into thin & tiny pieces and add them to the dough and mix well.

4/ Pour the white grapes marinated in Rum into it (ofcourse the Rum too). Mix them all gently by adding the nuts (Optional : the nuts can be broken into tiny pieces).

Indication : The dough should get thicker, then we are good to bake.

5/ Cover the inside of the cake mould with greaseproof paper and then pour the dough into it.

6/ Decorate the top with sugar coated cherries and Walnuts (optional).

7/ Pre-heat the oven to 170°C (thermostat 5-6) and cook for about 1 hour.

8/ Check regularly, mainly to see whether greaseproof paper sticking out of the mould is not getting burnt. If so, just cut those parts.