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Eggless Christmas Cake – No Alcohol Fruit Cake
December 16, 2015
Cakes/Muffins, Christmas Recipes 
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Yay!! I made Christmas Cake successfully!! Making this Christmas Fruit Cake was a long time dream for me!! I feel as if I have finished Ph.D in baking!!
I love fruit cake, the aroma, the sweetness and slightly tangy taste from the dry fruits just drives me crazy. I never thought it would be so easy to make this Christmas cake. Traditionally the dry fruits are soaked in alcohol for many days and then the cake is made. This is a NO-ALCOHOL recipe. Moreover, it is eggless too. I saw this recipe in joy of baking and tweaked it a bit according to our taste buds.I am really very happy to share this No-Alcohol, eggless fruit cake. Post updated with video 🙂
Here is the video..
Now to the recipe…
[Preparation Time-20 mins : Baking Time-50 to 65 mins]
Christmas Cake Ingredients:
- Maida / All purpose flour – 1 and 1/2 cups
- Brown Sugar – 1 cup
- Butter – 1/4 cup
- Water – 1 cup
- Curd – 1/2 cup
- Raisins – 1 cup
- Cranberries – 1 cup
- Mixed Nuts – 1/2 cup ( I used cashew and almonds)
- Cinnamon powder – 1 tsp
- Ginger powder – 1 tsp
- Salt – 1/2 tsp
- Baking Soda – 1 tsp
Method:
- Take the raisins, cranberries, butter, brown sugar, ginger powder & cinnamom powder in a sauce pan. To this add water and start heating.
- Bring it to a boil. Reduce the flame and let it boil in low-medium flame for 5 mins. Switch it off and let it cool down. Once cooled add the roughly chopped nuts and mix it.
- Now add curd and mix well. Add the all purpose flour, salt and baking soda and mix so that all the ingredients blend well.
- Meanwhile heat the oven to 160 deg Celsius. Take a oven safe pan and butter it/dust it with flour. Pour the mixture to it and bake it for 50-65 mins or until an inserted tooth pick comes out clean. Allow it to cool down completely. Cut and serve.
Alcohol free & Eggless Christmas Cake is ready!!
Enjoy with your family and friends this Christmas!!
Tips:
- Boiling the dry fruits along with the spice powders and other ingredients gives a magical aroma. Make sure u boil on a low flame only for 5 mins.
- I have used curd in place of eggs. If u want u can skip it and add 2 eggs.
- I have used raisins and cranberries, u can use candied mixed peel too.
- Using nuts is purely optional, u can skip if u dont want.
- I would insist to use brown sugar for this Christmas Cake.
It is so neatly,perfectly made Christmas cake…loved the recipe and all the photos. Happy Christmas dear
wow !! nutty cake ..love it sundari..
wow! it is in my list for quite sometime too.. yours comes out so nice buddy! enjoy!
Loved your simplest eggless Christmas cake recipe. Thanks, will try and wouldn’t fail to give you feedback
Can’t wait to try this cake
Loved your version of fruit cake. Looks super delicious !
Like this version with curd looks yum
A very easy cake.. Will make and post comment. Thanks for sharing the recipe.
Soft & moist cake…….perfect for Christmas.lovely presentation.
Looking to make you lovely recipe, could you tell me what curd is please? Not familiar to me .
Curd is nothing but yogurt.
Awesome.ur way of telling is too good. No queries left.
Soft,Moist and easy recipe… i can imagine its yummicious flavor…
This looks super moist and yummy a must try!!
Heeey, I made it successfully. Very tasty too. Thanks for the recipe…
Christmas cake looks great…delicious and yummy Cake to celebrate christmas…
This is a fool proof recipe. I baked it once – the first time ever the cake came out of the pan without much effort. Thanks to you. I felt accomplished. Baking it now for the second time. Have a toddler at home and this has become her favourite snack. I reduce sugar a bit and add dried fruits for natural sweetness. I dont have all purpose now at home. Going to try with whole wheat flour. Hope it turns out okay!
Thank u so much for your elaborate comment!! It should work well with wheat flour too!!
Hi can i know what pan size to use?
My pan’s size is 8×3 inches, which was quite big. U can may be use a smaller one – 8×2 inches.. Hope this helps!
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Is the curd, a jam type curd, ie Lemon curd?
No ordinary plain curd/yogurt..
Question? How long this cake can last?
Can I post it overseas?
This cake will stay good for 4-5 days in room temperature(below 15 deg C) I live in a cold region in U.K.. Not sure about it’s shelf life during travel..
Cake was dense and didn’t rise up after following almost all the steps..
Pls check the expiry date of your baking soda or use a different one next time. That could be the only possibility I guess!
Can I replace brown sugar with normal sugar
I don’t like brown sugar taste
Yes u can..
hi Sundari,
I tried your fruit cake two years back and it was awesome. I am making this again this year.. Will post the result soon. Thanks for the wonderful recipe..
Thank u so much!! 🙂
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This is such a fool proof recipe!!!! I owe u many thanks.