Kerala Plum Cake
Recipe – Traditional Christmas Fruit Cake

Name: ~Kerala Plum Cake~ Recipe – Traditional Christmas Fruit Cake
Total time: 80 min
Yield: 1
Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients: ½ cup White sugar (For the caramelised sugar syrup); ¼ cup Water; 1 cup Plain flour (maida/all-purpose flour) (For the cake); ⅔ cup Unsalted butter (at room temperature); ¾ cup White sugar; 3 Eggs; 1 tsp Vanilla extract; 1 tsp Baking powder; ½ tsp Cinnamon powder; ¼ tsp Clove powder; ¼ tsp Salt; ½ cup Cashew nuts (raw, unsalted, chopped)For the fruits and nuts; ¼ cup Black raisins; ½ cup Mixed dried fruits (dates, cherries, orange peels)

80 mins

Cooking Time

Intermediate

Difficulty

Ingredients

Veg

Diet

Kerala-style plum cake is made with a rich caramelised sugar syrup, aromatic spices, dried fruits, and crunchy cashews. Despite its name, this festive cake contains no plums – the term comes from traditional usage where all fruit cakes were called plum cakes in Kerala.

Ingredients

UNITSIngredients

½ cupWhite sugar (For the caramelised sugar syrup)

¼ cupWater

1 cupPlain flour (maida/all-purpose flour) (For the cake)

⅔ cupUnsalted butter (at room temperature)

¾ cupWhite sugar

3Eggs

1 tspVanilla extract

1 tspBaking powder

½ tspCinnamon powder

¼ tspClove powder

¼ tspSalt

½ cupCashew nuts (raw, unsalted, chopped)For the fruits and nuts

¼ cupBlack raisins

½ cupMixed dried fruits (dates, cherries, orange peels)

Kerala plum cake

Kerala Plum Cake Recipe – Traditional Christmas Fruit Cake

Ingredients

Kerala Plum Cake
Recipe – Traditional Christmas Fruit Cake