Christmas is around the corner, and people look excited to celebrate this festival. We all know that cakes are an essential part of this celebration, and hence, people start the preparation of cakes one month before Christmas. They also send cakes online to their loved ones for expressing love and care. The most traditional cake which people surely bake at this festival is Christmas plum-cake. Are you also planning to bake a plum cake and wish to know how to bake the plum cake at home? If yes, read this article carefully here, we will be discussing a very easy method of making the plum cake at home. 

Ingredients of Plum Cake

• 100 gm sugar
• 120 gm flour
• Two egg
• Vanilla essence
• Dry yeast
• Flour 100 gm
• Butter 100 gm
• Baking powder 5 gm
• Baking tin

For The Main Dish

• Raisins
• 20 gm walnuts
• Chopped dried figs 
• Red wine 50 ml
• Beer 100 ml
• Chopped cashews
• Tutti-frutti
• Chopped black dates
• Black rum 100 ml

For Toppings

• Egg whites
• 150 gm icing sugar

How to Bake

• Step 1

First, you should take a large bowl and then add flour and baking powder to it. Now mix them properly and keep aside. Then take a small bowl in which you will mix brown sugar and butter. Mix these two ingredients until the sugar dissolves properly. You can also take the help of an electric blender. Now break the eggs and add them to this. Keep mixing it until it is light and frothy.

• Step 2

Add flour to this egg and sugar mixture properly so that there are no lumps formed in it. Keep stirring this until it becomes a smooth mixture. Then add some drops of vanilla essence and milk. Now mix it gently. Then, add cinnamon powder and blend it properly. Let the batter rest for 10-15 minutes.

• Step 3

In the next step, you will chop the nuts and mix them in the batter. Mix it well again and save some nuts, which you can put on top of the cake. Then, preheat the oven at 180 degrees for 15 minutes. Take a baking tray and line it with butter paper. Or else, you can grease it with butter and dust some flour on it. Now pour the batter in it.

• Step 4

Look at the texture of the batter to ensure that it is ready. Now make an icing for the cake and if you want stiffer icing, then add powdered sugar to it. Now pour the icing on the cake and leave it to dry.

• Step 5

If you want to add any beautiful toppers on your cake, then do that after the icing.

• Step 6

Now Bake at 180 degrees for one hour or at 200 degrees Celsius for 45 minutes. Then add skewer to check if the cake is ready or not. If it comes out clean, take the cake and place it on a wire rack to cool. Your yummy Plum Cake is ready to serve. 

• Step 7

In the last step, you should carefully take the cake out of the baking tray. Then cut it and serve it with a variety of meals. The plum cake also goes well with vanilla ice-cream. You can also make the icing by beating together one cup icing sugar and one cup of unsalted butter. Mix vigorously until the mix becomes creamy. Keep it in the fridge for one hour or put it in the piping bag and use it to decorate the cake. If you want your icing to be colorful, you can divide this butter-sugar mixture into two parts and add the two colors of your choice. Put them in different icing bags and use them to rave up your cake. You can also use chocolate chips to decorate your cake.

Important Tips

•  Boil the dried fruit and candied fruit, strain, and use instantly if running low on time. You should always use the best quality dried fruits, which make your cake more delicious.
• Brandy can be substituted with any other rum or orange-flavored liqueur.
• Unglazed cakes can be stored for up to one month in the fridge.