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    Home » Eggless Bakes » Cake Recipes » Christmas Fruit Cake| No Alcohol|Eggless Cake

    Christmas Fruit Cake| No Alcohol|Eggless Cake

    Dec 15, 2018 · Modified: Nov 28, 2021 by Priya_Srinivasan ·

    Christmas fruit cake, needs no introduction, loaded with dry fruits soaked in orange juice and flavored with warm spices. The best bake one can do during festivites.

    Christmas fruit cake

    Christmas fruit cake, the mere thought of it you get a picture of rich,dark color cake studded with colorful fruits.  We love fruit cakes at home, atleast me and hubby. Both the kids dont like anything in their cakes, nothing should be seen on top or inside the cake.

    Last year, we had a small surprise party for our friends birthday. I made a gift basket with this christmas fruit cake along with some other bakes for each of them.  The cakes were such a hit with them, i baked them again  on demand. The only prep in this bake is, soaking of fruits and nuts, which I would recommend for atleast 2-3 days, i usually do it for 3 days. 

    Eggless fruit cake

    When i baked these in october, i had stock of palm jaggery syrup in hand, so i used ½ cup of syrup and ¾ cup sugar for the recipe, the cake had a  beautiful deep color. Unfortunately while baking for the blog, i didnt have the syrup in hand. I baked with normal brown sugar, will try to make it again with the syrup and try updating the recipe. It is one of my fool proof recipe and a perfect gift for this festive season, loaded with dry fruits, nuts, warm spices and lotssss of love.

    No alcohol fruit cake

    Christmas Fruit Cake | No Alcohol | Eggless

    Christams fruits cake, needs no introduction, loaded with dry fruits soaked in orange juice and flavored with warm spices. The best bake one can do during festivites.
    5 from 3 votes
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    Course: Dessert, Festival, Festive
    Cuisine: Indian, International
    Keyword: Christmas cake, christmas fruit cake, Dry fruits cake, Eggless fruit cake, Fruit cake recipe, No alcohol fruit cake
    Prep Time: 3 days
    Cook Time: 1 hour
    resting time: 30 minutes
    Total Time: 3 days 1 hour 30 minutes
    Servings: 8

    Equipment

    • Convection oven
    • Bowls
    • Spatula
    • Baking pan
    • Measuring cups and spoons

    Ingredients

    Cake batter

    • 2 & ½ cups Whole wheat flour i used normal chapathi aata
    • 1 teaspoon baking powder
    • 1 tsp baking soda
    • 1 cup brown sugar preferably dark brown sugar (pls see notes)
    • ¾ cup oil i used sunflower oil
    • 1 cup buttermilk you can also use ½ cup yogurt and ½ cup water

    Dry fruits & nuts soaking

    • 1 cup fresh orange juice juice from 6-7 nos fresh oranges
    • ¼ cup chopped almonds
    • ¼ cup silvered pistachios
    • ¼ cup chopped macademia nuts
    • ¼ cuo chopped cashewnuts
    • ¼ cup raisins
    • ¼ cup cranberries
    • ¼ cup chopped dried pineapple
    • ¼ cup choppped dried mango
    • 3 nos dried figs, chopped into chunks
    • 2 tablespoon candied ginger
    • 10 nos glazed cherries

    The Spices

    • 1 inch cinnamon stick
    • 4-5 nos cloves
    • 4-5 nos cardamom, seeds only
    • ½ teaspoon dried ginger powder

    Instructions

    Let us soak the fruits

    • Squeeze around 6-7 oranges to get 1 cup of juice, you might get another ¼ cup extra, which you can gulp after the hard work of chopping and soaking.
    • Take all the fruits mentioned above.I have chopped almonds and cahewnuts into 3 pieces each, macademias into halves.
    • Take all the chopped dried fruits and nuts in a glass container, add the orange juice to it. Mix well, cover it with a lid and refrigerate until you make your cake or atleast a minimum of 24 hours and maximum 3 days.

    Spice powder

    • Take all ingredients mentioned under 'Spices" in a spice grinder and grind it to a fine powder. I used my mortar-pestle and hand pounded to a almost fine powder.

    Let us make the Fruit Cake

    • On the day of making the cake, remove this soaking fruits from the refrigerator and keep it on the counter an hour ahead of baking.
    • Preheat the oven to 170C and prepare two, 5 inch cake pans, line it with parchement paper or grease it with oil and dust it with flour. I used two, 5 inch pans and one 4 inch pan and got totally 3 medium sized cakes.
    • In a large bowl, sift together, whole wheat flour, baking powder, baking soda. Sifting the dry ingredients is important to get a uniform flour mix and also a airy and light flour that gives a soft and fluffy cake.
    • Add the spice powder and brown sugar to the flour mix and mix well to get a uniform mix
    • In another bowl, take oil, buttermilk and tip in all the soaked fruits with its juice, add ¼ cup of water to the container, mix and pour that water too in to this wet ingredients. Whisk well using a balloon whisk.
    • Now, slowly add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients in 3 batches and using a spatuala mix to form a smooth batter. Do not mix vigorously, mix in single direction,gently.
    • Divide the batter amongst the prepared pans, tap the pans twice to release any air.
    • Bake the cakes in the preheated oven for 50-60 minutes or until a skewer inserted in the middle comes out clean.
    • Remove the cakes from the oven, let it sit for 5 minutes in the pan. Then using a blunt knife slowly loosen the sides of the cake from the pan, unmould the cake onto the wire rack and let it cool completely. Slice and enjoy.
    • Wrap the fruit cakes in a cling wrap and let it sit on the counter for a day. If more than one day i usually refrigerate the cake and warm it for 20 seconds before serving

    Notes

    • Sifting/whsiking the dry ingredients together helps to get a homogenous flour mix and creates a lightness in the dense flour mix. If you are a beginner to baking, i recommed using a flour sifter to do this. A whisk also works well
    • Do not beat the batter vigorously. Use gentle cut and fold method.
    • If you are beginner to baking , i recommend lining your pan with parchment paper after greasing it. This helps to keep the loaf intact without sticking to the pan.
    • Baking time varies from oven to oven. Microwave convection oven, takes a longer time than a stand lone gas oven/electric oven. So baking according to your oven.
    • Resting time is very important to remove the cake intact from the pan. So have patience.
    • Allow the cake to cool well before slicing it, to get a proper slice.
    • For a deep amber color, use ½ cup of palm jaggery syurp and ¾ cup of sugar in the above recipe or you can also add caramel to get a deep color. 

    Enjoy this loaded Christmas fruit cake with your family and friends. The cake stays good on the counter for a day or two. But i usually cling wrap them after a day and refrigerate.

    Christmas fruit cake slice

    More Christmas Bakes

    • Christmas Scones
    • Eggless Julekake/Julekage
    • Eggless chocoalte Babka
    • Irish Barmbeck

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    Comments

    1. Unknown

      December 16, 2018 at 1:22 am

      Wonderful receipe. Would be nice if you show the cooking in a video.

      Reply
    2. Srivalli

      December 16, 2018 at 3:26 am

      Priya that's a wonderful looking Christmas cake. I have something similar coming up with a bit of nattu sakkari for the ambur. Your cakes texture looks so good. Will surely want to try this too…

      Reply
    3. vaishali sabnani

      December 16, 2018 at 4:53 am

      Lovely fruit cake . Yes most kids do not like anything in their cakes , but I love nutty and fruity cakes and this one looks like a keeper recipe !
      Lucky friends who get these lovely cakes !

      Reply
    4. Gayathri Kumar

      December 16, 2018 at 10:48 am

      Such a beautiful fruit loaded cake Priya. This is a perfect bake for this season. For deeper colour try adding caramel surup. It would enhance the flavour too.

      Reply
    5. Priya Suresh

      December 16, 2018 at 4:55 pm

      Such a stunning and gorgeous christmas fruit cake and love the all the dried fruits and nuts went it. Wish i get a slice of this cake rite now.

      Reply
    6. Rafeeda AR

      December 17, 2018 at 4:49 am

      Can you bake me this cake, please? 😀 I would love to get something like this, than me making it and eating… hehe… The cake looks so tempting, and definitely with all that goodness in it and all the love, no wonder why it would taste amazing…

      Reply
    7. Pavani

      December 19, 2018 at 1:46 am

      That is such a delicious looking Christmas cake Priya. Love all the nuts, spices and dry fruit in there — so perfect for the holiday season.

      Reply
    8. Nalini's Kitchen

      December 19, 2018 at 4:21 am

      Wonderful Christmas cake Priya,looks gorgeous.Wish I can have a huge slice.

      Reply
    9. Sharmila kingsly

      December 19, 2018 at 7:03 am

      Such a neat and yummy fruit cake ,perfect for this season,one can never skip this!!

      Reply
    10. Unknown

      December 19, 2018 at 2:07 pm

      That's so nice, I hadn't tried with wheat flour. This looks like it's a perfect cake for Christmas.

      Reply
    11. Chef Mireille

      December 29, 2018 at 3:18 am

      the orange juice must have added an awesome flavor in this cake

      Reply
    12. Swati

      December 29, 2018 at 6:37 am

      Such a wonderful bake, so perfect for Christmas and New Year celebrations!!

      Reply
    13. veena

      December 31, 2018 at 4:33 am

      This is so beautiful Priya. The orange juice definetely adds the flavour tothe cake. Perfectly baked

      Reply
    14. Suma Gandlur

      January 01, 2019 at 4:06 am

      Loving this alcohol free, egg-free, wheat flour version fruit cake. It looks fabulous.

      Reply
    15. cookwithrenu

      January 02, 2019 at 3:21 pm

      A healthy bake for sure. Alcohol free makes it good for the kids too.

      Reply
    16. Varada's Kitchen

      January 05, 2019 at 8:43 pm

      The cake is loaded with nuts and dry fruit! Addition of orange juice and buttermilk is interesting.

      Reply
    17. Pavani

      January 07, 2019 at 10:35 pm

      Wow, eggless Christmas cake looks so delicious and moist with the addition of orange juice.Lovely share.

      Reply
    18. Kalyani

      January 10, 2019 at 1:34 pm

      thought I commented earlier here… well, this wholewehat spice filled cake must have been so aromatic.. love all your wholewheat cakes ~

      Reply
    19. www.annapurnaz.in

      February 01, 2019 at 7:24 am

      This season I didn't bake a fruit cake and now this cake of yours is tempting me alot

      Reply
    20. Shobha Keshwani

      December 20, 2020 at 12:27 pm

      5 stars
      Very delicious alcohol free and eggless Christmas cake. I made the alcohol version this time. Will try this next season. I love Christmas cakes.
      Shobha Keshwani recently posted…TRADITIONAL CHRISTMAS CAKE / FRUIT AND NUT CAKE WITH ALCOHOLMy Profile

      Reply
    21. Mayuri Patel

      December 23, 2020 at 9:14 pm

      5 stars
      A beautiful Christmas Cake, using wheat flour and oil. It sure makes a wonderful edible gift. I love the smiles on the faces of the receivers.Depending on what dried fruit we add, the fruit cake tastes different,

      Reply
    22. Chef Mireille

      December 25, 2020 at 6:39 am

      5 stars
      It looks so moist and delicious. I usually make Caribbean style fruit cake for the holiday season but as I always have fruit soaking, this is a cake I can make at any time of year. Will definitely try it out soon!

      Reply

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