Christmas fruit cake (Alchol free)

Bake this festive Alchol free Christmas  fruit cake in advance of Christmas and feed it regularly with my sugarless black tea ..Mix dry fruits,nuts with caramel syrup and orange juice ..I have here soaked my all fruits to caramel syrup and orange juice to make this Christmas cake alcohol less..

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Cook Time - 55 mins
Serve - 5
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Ingredients:----
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Date - 1/4 cup

Golden Raisin - 1/4 cup

Black Raisin - 1/4 cup

Tutti fruti - 1/4 cup

Cherries- 1/4 cup

Almond- 2 tbsp

Cashew nuts - 2 tbsp

Walnut - 2 tbsp

Caramel syrup- 1 cup

Orange juice - 3/4 cup

Cinnamon powder  - 1/4 tsp

Nutmeg powder-  pinch off

All spice - 1/4 tsp

Refine flour or Maida- 1 1/2 cup

Baking powder  - 1 tsp

Baking soda- 1/4 tsp

Salt - 1/4 tsp

Powder sugar- 1 cup

Butter - 6 tbsp

Egg -2 ( if u want to make eggless then                   use 1/2 cup condensed milk or                   1/2 curd)

Method  :----
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Heat a sauce pan with 1/2 cup sugar .stir continuously till sugar transfer to caramel..now turn down flame and carefully pour 1/2 cup hot water and stir continuously to make caramel syrup..

Boil caramel syrup for 2 minutes. Then add all dry fruits and mix well with caramel syrup..

Let it cool for 2 hrs .then add orange juice and mix well .

Soak dry fruits in caramel syrup and orange juice for 5-6 hrs..

Then strain fruits and reserve caramel syrup and orange juice mixture.

Coat all nuts with little flour..keep aside..

Now preheat oven on 180c for 12 
minutes..

Arrange cake tin with parchment paper or butter paper  and brush little oil or butter..

Now take a bowl add soft butter and powder sugar. Whisk till fluffy..


Then add eggs one by one and whisk till creamy.

Then add flour , baking powder ,baking soda , spice powder and salt (pass through the sieve )

Now mix wet ingredients with dry ingredients with spatula..

Now add soaked fruits along with reserve caramel syrup and orange juice..
Mix well to make semi thick batter..

Now add flour coated chopped nuts and mix well..

Now pour the cake batter into the cake tin..tap twice. 

And bake it for 55 minutes- 1 hr or till a toothpick or knife comes out clean..

After 50 minutes (because every oven is different) insert a toothpick or knife into the cake if it comes out clean means its done or if not then bake it for few more minutes..