Steamed Fruit Cake
posted in Cakes and Pastries |This fruit cake is easy to make. You need a steaming pot that can put more water in the pot
for steaming the fruit cake without drying the water so quickly. If the water drys up, then
after 2 hours, You can add hot water to continue steaming the cake. You have to use a charcoal
stove for steaming. This fruit cake is quite big, using a 10 inch diameter cake tin.
This fruit cake can keep for a month or two in the refrigerator.
Ingredients:
600 gm plain flour
6 eggs
500 gm mixed fruit
450 gm butter
1 cup sugar
1 cup burnt sugar
4 teaspoon cream of tartar
2 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
2 taespoon vanilla essence or orange essence
1 nutmeg, pound finely
Method:
Sieve together, flour, bicarbonate of soda,cream of tartar and nutmeg powder at least 2 times.
Combine the mixed fruits and the flour and mixed them well.
Beat the eggs with the sugar until dissolves. Beat butter till light in colour. Then combine egg
mixture with beaten butter.Fold in the mixture of flour and fruits and combine evenly. Add vanilla
essence.
In a pot, add in the 1 cup of sugar. Cook until sugar disolves and is brown in colour.
Quickly pour the burned sugar into the cake mixture, stirring the mixture at the same time.
Mix evenly. Put the cake mixture into a 10 inch diameter tin. Cover the tin in aluminium foil
and steam cake mixture for 4 hours.
