WHEAT PLUM CAKE - No Oven No Egg No Maida Plum Cake recipe

PERFECT PLUM CAKE RECIPE

Are you looking for a rich, healthy and tasty plum cake recipe?. Then you are in the right place. A perfect plum cake recipe to enjoy  Christmas with the goodness of a variety of dry fruits. Plum cakes are prepared by soaking dry fruits and nuts in rum or wine. But I soaked the dry fruits in orange juice only. Some prefer soaking the dry fruits in hot black tea instead of orange juice. You can add your favorite dry fruits and nuts like dates, prunes, figs, walnuts, etc. I added cherries, dried cranberry, tutti-frutti, raisins black and yellow. Moreover, this plum cake is an Eggless cake recipe that too without using the oven. As Christmas is around the corner, many of my viewers requested an easy cake recipe. This simple plum cake using wheat flour is perfect for Christmas. For all those plum cake lovers, this is a must try moist cake recipe. Instead of All purpose flour, wheat flour is added which makes this cake a healthy cake for sure. Here is the recipe for an easy wheat plum cake without oven or eggless wheat plum cake recipe. 

INGREDIENTS

For soaking 

Dry fruits - half a cup ( I took raisins, cranberry, dried cherries), chopped

Tutti frutti - 2 Tsp 

Orange juice - half a cup

For the cake 

Wheat flour - 1.5 cups

Brown sugar - 1 cup or less than one cup

Baking powder - 1.5 Tsp

Baking soda - half tsp

Caramel water - half a cup

Vegetable oil - half a cup

Buttermilk - half a cup

Vinegar - 1 tbsp

Vanilla essence - 1 tsp

Chopped cashews - few

Spice powders - quarter tsp each( I took the ginger powder, nutmeg powder and cinnamon powder)

PREPARATION

Here is the video showing how to make Eggless wheat plum cake 

• Soak the dry fruits and tutti-frutti in orange juice for 6 hours ( preferably overnight).
• You can prepare the caramel water ahead. Caramelize 6 tbsp of sugar until golden. Add half a cup of water to it and mix until well combined. Set aside to cool. 
• Grease the baking tray with veg oil and line with Butter paper. I took the 7-inch square baking tray.
• In a large bowl mix caramel water, veg oil, buttermilk and vinegar very well.
• To this add wheat flour, powdered brown sugar, baking powder, baking soda through a sieve. 
• Combine the flour mixture with the wet ingredients in batches.
• Sprinkle some flour(1 tsp) over the soaked fruits before adding to the cake batter.
• Add vanilla essence, half of the chopped cashews and soaked dry fruits to the batter. Fold well.
• Finally, add the spice powders and again fold. 
• Pour the prepared batter into the baking pan and top it with remaining nuts. 
• Preheat a nonstick pan on the stovetop. Place the tin inside this nonstick pan and bake for 30 to 40 minutes.
• Once cooled, slice it and enjoy the healthy and tasty plum cake.

My other recipes

Homemade Marzipan recipe

Carrot Pola

Batica Recipe

SIMPLE SNACKS RECIPES - BREAD BANANA SNACK

SNACK RECIPES

Bread snacks or banana snacks especially plantain recipes are always kids favourite. These kids recipes are very easy to make and at the same time it is scrumptious too. I love to experiment in snacks recipes. Whenever my kids asks fir any evening snacks, I just for some creative snacks recipes using bread and banana. Though Brown bread is my favirite, all my snacks recipes calls for white bread or milk bread only. Here am sharing a special inviting snack recipe , a sweet yummy snack using bread and banana. The recipe is very simple. Just make french toast or bread toast and set aside. Then cook the sliced banana or ripe plantain in caramel sauce until the banana is done. Then spread the french toast in a serving tray and then top it with caramel banana and its sauce. Serve immediately. Yummy. So hope you all liked this simple snack recipe with Bread and banana. 

INGREDIENTS

For French toast

Bread  - 8 slices

Egg   - 1

Sugar - 2 tbsp

Milk   - quarter a cup

Oil or ghee

For Caramel banana 

Sugar    - half a cup

Water    - quarter a cup

Butter  - 2 tsp, at room temperature 

Milk   - half a cup 

Ripe plantain   - 1, sliced 

PREPARATION

Here is the recipe video 

• Let's make french toast first. For that, as usual whisk egg, milk and sugar in a bowl. Instead of adding milk you can add more eggs.
• Heat a pan with ghee or oil. Dip each bread slices in this egg mixture and toast it until both sides are done.
• When done, transfer it to a plate and set aside.
• Now make the caramel banana. For that, make the caramel syrup by heating sugar and water.
• Once the sugar starts caramelizing, reduce the flame to medium low and add butter . You can add melted butter but it must not be too hot. Combine well and then add milk at room Temperature. Combine again. So the sauce is ready. To this add the sliced plantain and cook it until the plantain is done. 
• Now lets arrange tbis in a serving plate. 
• Arrange the french toast in the serving plate. Top it with caramel banana along with the sauce. Serve immediately. 
• You can also refrigerate the french toast and caramel banana separately and then combine them only while serving. 
• Do try this snack recipe with banana and bread.