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Fruit & Nut Cake

Time
Prep Time: 15 min Total Time: 15 mins
Servings 8
Description
A fruit & moist eggless cake
Ingredients
    Basic vanilla cake batter
  • 1 cup measuring 200 ml used
  • Condensed milk – ½ tin
  • Vegetable oil (odourless – 1/3 cup (i used sunflower))
  • Castor/ powdered sugar – 1 tbsp
  • Maida/ plain flour – 1 cup
  • Baking powder – 1 tsp
  • Baking soda – ½ tsp
  • Milk – 1/3 cup
  • vanilla essence – 1 tsp – if making only a basic vanilla sponge cake, else skip this
  • Other ingredients for a fruit & nut cake
  • Cocoa powder – 1 tbsp
  • Chopped nuts – 2 tbsp – like walnuts (cashew, almonds)
  • Vanilla essence – ½ tp
  • Dry fruits (chopped – 2 tbsp – like raisins, cranberries, prunes, tutti fruity)
  • Strawberry essence – ½ tsp
Instructions
  1. Grease a 7” round tin OR 8”x4” loaf tin. (I used a bundt pan).
  2. Preheat oven at 1800 C (or 150 C for plain vanilla cake).
  3. Measure maida, add baking powder and baking soda to it, mix. Set aside. Measure milk and set aside. Chop nuts, dry fruits, set aside.
  4. In a mixing bowl beat together condensed milk, oil, sugar for a minute or till well mixed (hand whisk or electric beater).
  5. Seive into the mixing bowl half of the maida mixture and add half the milk. Beat well.
  6. [If making only a basic vanilla sponge cake, add 1 tsp vanilla essence now. Else skip this proceed below].
  7. Seive in the remaining flour and add remaining milk. Beat 2 to 3 mins till mixture is light.
  8. For plain vanilla cake, pour batter into greased tin & bake at 150 C for 30 mins or till toothpick inserted in the centre comes out clean. Else, proceed as below.
  9. Divide the batter into 2 parts.
  10. To one part add cocoa powder, nuts, ½ tsp vanilla essence. Mix with spatula. If too thick may add 2 to 3 tsps water if needed. Pour into greased tin as bottom layer and spread.
  11. To remaining portion of batter, add dry fruits, ½ tsp strawberry essence. Mix with a clean spatula..
  12. Pour on top of cocoa batter and spread on top. Do not mix.
  13. May sprinkle some chopped nuts on top.
  14. Bake for 20 to 25 mins or till toothpick inserted comes out clean.
  15. Remove and cool in tin for 10 mins. Un mould and cool completely on wire rack. Cut and serve/ store in airtight box in refrigerator.
Note
You may top Fruit and Nut cake with plain glaze icing or lemon flavour icing.
The plain vanilla sponge cake can be used as base recipe for making other flavoured cakes or for puddings.
Serve Basic vanilla sponge as is or topped with fresh fruit sauce or vanilla custard or any icing of your choice.
The above recipe can be easily doubled.
Add some dry fruits, tutti fruity to basic vanilla batter & bake!