Vegan Plum Cake - Vegan Christmas Fruit Cake
Make this delicious and easy Christmas fruit cake, commonly known as plum cake in India. It is eggless and dairy free, filled with soaked dried fruit and nuts!
Ingredients
For the cake batter:
- 1 ½ cup All purpose flour 180 grams
- ¼ tsp ground cinnamon
- ⅛ tsp ground ginger
- ⅛ tsp ground cloves
- 1 tsp orange zest
- 1 tsp baking powder
- ½ tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 cup yogurt 245 grams
- ½ cup neutral vegetable oil sub with vegan butter, 109 grams
- ¾ cup brown sugar 165 grams
- For soaking the dried fruit:
- ⅓ cup orange juice
- ⅓ cup rum sub with orange juice
- ¼ cup raisins
- ¼ cup dried apricots chopped roughly
- ⅛ cup dried cranberries
- ⅛ cup figs chopped roughly
- ⅛ cup prunes chopped roughly
Nuts (about 110 grams):
- ¼ cup almonds
- ¼ cup pecans
- ¼ cup cashews
Instructions
- In a saucepan, take rum and orange juice, and turn on the heat.
- Add the dried fruits to the rum and juice mix and cook untill the mixture thickens and the dried fruit absorbs all the juices. Set aside and let cool.
- Preheat the oven to 160 degrees C (320 degrees F) and line an 8-inch cake pan with parchment paper.
- In a bowl whisk together flour, baking powder, baking soda, ground spices, and orange zest and set aside.
- Whisk together brown sugar, vanilla extract, yoghurt and oil in a separate bowl until well combined.
- Gently fold in the dry ingredients with a silicone spatula, then the soaked dried fruit, and nuts and mix until everything is well combined with no large flour pockets. Do not over-mix the batter!
- Bake at 160C for 50-55 minutes or only until a toothpick or skewer comes out clean.
- Top the cake with the extra soaked fruits and enjoy!
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