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    Chocolate Fruit Cake Recipe

    Last Updated On: Apr 14, 2025 by Aarthi

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    Chocolate Fruit Cake, a rich, moist Christmas fruit cake with a dark chocolate flavour to it. This chocolate plum cake is so easy to make and has all the Christmas flavours in it, check my healthy fruit cake recipe. As a bonus I have shared fruit cake recipe without eggs and baked without oven in this blog post. Learn how to make moist chocolate fruit cake with eggs and without eggs step by step pictures, guide, instructions and video.

    chocolate fruit cake sliced and served

    Chocolate Fruit Cake

    Ultimate chocolate fruit cake recipe. This is one of the best fruit cake recipe you can ever imagine and so simple to make. The only thing it takes an hour to bake and it is worth every second. 

    Even though i have three variation of plum cake recipe in my blog. My viewers have been asking for a fruit cake which has chocolate in them. So I decided to bake it this year and share it. I made it couple days back and i am telling you it turned out to be super yummy and loved it to the core.

    Table of Contents

    • About Chocolate Fruit Cake
    • Watch Chocolate Fruit Cake Video
    • Chocolate Fruit Cake Ingredients
    • How to Make Chocolate Fruit Cake (Stepwise Pictures)
    • Baking Chocolate Fruit Cake (without oven)
    • Chocolate Fruit Cake (without Eggs)
    • Frequently Asked Questions
    • Expert Tips 
    • 📖 Recipe Card
    • Chocolate Fruit Cake Recipe (without oven)

    About Chocolate Fruit Cake

    Fruit cakes are a popular cakes baked during Christmas season. The cake is filled with juicy dried fruits and nuts. Fruit Cake which is rich and moist. 

    You could add any dry fruits in it as per your liking. The list of dry fruits are pretty endless, you could add dried prunes, cherries, currants, candied lemon peel, candied orange peel and many more.

    Delicious eggless chocolate fruit cake or plum cake which turned out super moist and fruity. This chocolate flavour is so intense and taste amazing.

    In this recipe we are adding some cocoa powder to make it chocolate fruit cake. In this post I have shared recipe for making this chocolate fruit cake in a pan or a kadai if you don't have oven.

    I baked it yesterday and believe it or not everything got over right now. I took a few pieces (which I saved it from my sisters) to office and everyone loved it. They told me that it is so much better than the store bought one. I love plum cakes a lot than any other cakes, but some bakery here supply this with dry little fruits in it and the cake itself looks so dry. But there is one bakery here which supply a awesome cake which has a lovely flavour of fruits in it. And this one came better than that too. Which is pretty amazing.

    Watch Chocolate Fruit Cake Video

    YouTube video

    Similar Fruit Cake Recipes

    Rice British Plum Cake

    Mini Raisin Cake

    Plum Cake Balls

    Whole Wheat Fruit and Nut Cake

    Ginger Bread House

    Eggless White Fruit Cake

    Chocolate Fruit Cake Ingredients

    ingredients for chocolate fruit cake

    Dried Fruits - I like to use a combination of seedless black raisins, prunes, dates, tutti frutti. You can use candied peels, citrus peel, currants as well.

    Spice Powders - cinnamon is the favour which I used in this cake. You can use nutmeg, ginger, cloves as well.

    Plain Flour - I used refined all purpose flour in this cake which makes the cake tender and light.

    Raising Agent - baking soda and baking powder is added to the cake.

    Cocoa Powder - not only this adds a hint of chocolate flavour, also a fruity flavour.

    Sweeteners - honey and brown sugar is used in this cake. but you can add regular sugar instead of brown sugar.

    Oranges - juice of orange and the peel is grated and added for citrus aroma.

    Butter - butter adds the flavour for the fruit cake.

    close shot of chocolate fruit cake

    How to Make Chocolate Fruit Cake (without Oven)

    Boiling Fruits

    Take raisins, dates, prunes, orange zest, orange juice, cocoa powder, butter, brown sugar, honey, water in a sauce pan and bring it to a boil. Boil for 5 mins. Cool it down for 30 mins. Add in egg and mix well.

    Making cake batter

    Add in flour, baking soda, baking powder, cinnamon and mix well to a smooth batter.

    Baking cake

    Spoon this in a parchment lined baking pan. Heat a heavy bottom kadai covered for 10 mins. Now place a separator in the bottom and place cake pan. Cover and cook for 40 to 45 mins till cake is cooked. Remove and cool completely Un mould and serve.

    chocolate fruit cake

    How to Make Chocolate Fruit Cake (Stepwise Pictures)

    Boiling Dried Fruits

    1)Take seedless raisins, apricots, dates and prunes in a sauce pan. You can use any combination of dried fruits.

    raisins, apricots, prunes and dates in a sauce pan

    2)Add in butter, tutti frutti and cherries.

    add butter, tutti frutti and cherries

    3)Add in orange juice, brown sugar to the dried fruits.

    add orange juice and brown sugar

    4)Pour in water, cocoa powder in the sauce pan.

    add water and cocoa

    5)Add in grated orange zest, honey over the butter.

    orange zest and honey

    6)Place the dried fruit sauce pan on heat. Cook for 5 minutes till butter melts and the dried fruits gets soft. Now remove the sauce pan from heat and allow them to cool to room temperature.

    boil everything for 5 minutes

    Making Chocolate fruit cake batter

    7)Once the chocolate mixture is cooled enough. Add in eggs and whisk till combined. Add in plain flour.

    once cooled, add egg and plain flour

    8)Add in baking soda and baking powder into the flour.

    add baking soda and baking powder

    9)Add in cinnamon powder and mix to a smooth batter.

    mix to form a batter

    Baking Chocolate Fruit Cake (without oven)

    10)Spoon the batter in a parchment lined baking pan. You can bake the cake in oven or without oven.

    For Baking in an oven

    Preheat oven to 150 degree C. Butter a deep round tin(8 to 10 inchh) and line the bottom with parchment paper or wax paper. Now line the sides with parchment paper as well in the way that the paper is somewhat extended above the tin  which prevents the cake from burning and sticking all over the tin when it rises as it bakes. Butter all over the tin generously and keep it aside.

    Pour the batter into the tin and bake it the oven for  45 mins to 1 hour. The cake looks little moist and sticky on top but has some moist texture in the middle. Remove it from the oven and allow to cool down completely. Now remove it from the tin and allow to cool down completely again. Since you have lined it with parchment paper it won’t be hard to remove the cake from tin. Decorate it as per your wish and serve or store in an air tight container for 3-4 days.

    bake cakes in oven

    For Baking cake without oven

    Heat a heavy bottom kadai covered for 10 mins. Now place a separator in the bottom and place cake pan. Cover and cook for 40 to 45 mins till cake is cooked. Remove and cool completely Un mould and serve.

    how to bake cakes without oven

    11)Serve.

    chocolate fruit cake decorated and served

    Chocolate Fruit Cake (without Eggs)

    Chocolate Fruit Cake (without Eggs)

    This is how you make a super moist chocolate fruit cake without eggs. This eggless fruit cake has all the Christmas flavours in them but made without eggs. There are few tweaks which you might need to make for super moist eggless cake. I followed the same recipe as mentioned above. But you have to use extra plain flour and mashed banana as egg substitute.

    Ingredients Used

    • Dried Fruits (1 cup Raisins, 5 Apricots, 10 Dates, ¼ cup tutti fruity, 5 cherries)
    • 100 grams Unsalted Butter 
    • ½ cup Brown Sugar 
    • ½ cup Honey
    • 1 tsp Orange Zest
    • ¼ cup Orange Juice
    • ½ cup Water
    • ½ cup Water
    • 3 tbsp Cocoa Powder
    • ¾ cup Banana mashed (egg substitute)

    How to make chocolate fruit cake without eggs

    1)Grease a 8 inch nonstick pan with oil and set aside. Preheat oven to 160 degree C.

    Take all the ingredients mentioned above except banana in a sauce pan and cook for 5 minutes till it soft. Set aside the mixture so it cools completely.

    Once cooled, you are going to add in ¾ cup of mashed ripe banana. This acts as egg substitute in the cake.

    mix mashed banana in the chocolate mix which acts as egg substitute

    2)Now for the dry ingredients mix plain flour, walnuts, baking soda, baking powder, cinnamon in a bowl. Add in the cooled banana dry fruit mix and combine.

    • ½ cup Walnuts
    • 1½  cup All Purpose Flour | Maida
    • ½ tsp Baking Soda
    • ½ tsp Baking Powder
    • 1 tsp Cinnamon powder
    add plain flour and mix well

    3)The batter will be slightly thick, pour this into the prepared pan. Bake at 160 degree C for 1 hour.

    pour batter in a cake pan

    4)Once baked cool it completely. Un mould from baking tin and allow the cool.

    cake baked

    5)Slice and serve.

    Chocolate Fruit Cake (without Eggs)

    Frequently Asked Questions

    How to Feed a Fruit Cake

    Fruit cake matures as it sits. You can make fruit cakes a month in advance. But this fruit cake since it is boiled you can make it a week in advance and store in a cool place.

    You can start feeding the cake 2 to 3 days before serving. Take some rum and brush it all over the cake. Repeat this daily. This is how you feed a fruit cake.

    Soaking Dried Fruits for Fruit Cake

    Usually for fruit cakes they soak these dried fruits in brandy or rum for a month,  so that the fruits gets all flavours and it plumps up a little. But in this cake since we are boiling the fruits, it gets the plumpness and flavour without any hard work. And the heat gives so much moistness to the cake.

    This is Nigella Lawson’s Chocolate Fruit Cake Recipe and it was in my mind for more than a year since I watched her show. I waited for the Christmas season to arrive to try this recipe and finally I made it. It came out so much better than I expected, frankly I am now crazy about this and want it each and every day.

    If you want to make it even more authentic, just use a slash or two of rum that will bring more Christmas flavour to the cake.

    Expert Tips 

    • If you are planning to bake it in oven. Bake it in 160 degree c for 40 to 50 mins.
    • You can increase the amount of fruit if you want. Use only seedless black raisins.
    • If you don't have prunes and dates. Use 2 cups of black raisins.
    • You can add ginger powder, cardamom powder, mix spice powder, nutmeg powder for added flavour.
    • For baking without oven. Use a heavy bottom pan with fitting lid. Use hard anodised pan for best result. Don't use nonstick pan. since it is not ideal to heat nonstick empty. You can also use Use aluminium and indalium pan.
    • You can use a pressure cooker for baking. If you are using pressure cooker, don't use whistle or gasket.

    Christmas Fruit Cakes to Try

    • Traditional Fruit Cake Recipe
    • Plum Cake Recipe
    • Gingerbread House Recipe
    • Orange Blender Cake Recipe
    • Christmas Pudding Recipe
    • Chocolate Cherry Cake Recipe

    📖 Recipe Card

    Chocolate Fruit Cake Recipe (without oven)

    Chocolate Fruit Cake, a rich, moist Christmas fruit cake with a dark chocolate flavour to it. This chocolate plum cake is so easy to make and has all the Christmas flavours in it, check my healthy fruit cake recipe. As a bonus I have shared fruit cake recipe without eggs and baked without oven in this blog post. Learn how to make moist chocolate fruit cake with eggs and without eggs step by step pictures, guide, instructions and video.
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    Prep Time: 15 minutes minutes
    Cook Time: 1 hour hour
    Total Time: 1 hour hour 15 minutes minutes
    Servings: 8 servings
    Calories: 339kcal
    Author: Aarthi

    Equipment

    • 8 inch round cake pan
    • OTG
    • Hard anodised kadai
    • Sauce Pan
    • Mixing Bowl
    • Parchment Paper

    Ingredients

    Chocolate Fruit Cake

    • 2 cups Black Seedless Raisins
    • ½ cup Dates chopped
    • ½ cup Prunes chopped
    • 100 grams Unsalted Butter
    • ½ cup Brown Sugar
    • ½ cup Honey
    • 1 tsp Orange Zest
    • ¼ cup Orange Juice
    • ½ cup Water
    • 2 Eggs
    • 1 cup All Purpose Flour | Maida
    • ¼ tsp Baking Soda
    • ¼ tsp Baking Powder
    • 1 tsp Cinnamon powder
    • 3 tbsp Cocoa Powder

    Eggless Chocolate Fruit Cake

    • Dried Fruits 1 cup Raisins, 5 Apricots, 10 Dates, ¼ cup tutti fruity, 5 cherries
    • 100 grams Unsalted Butter
    • ½ cup Brown Sugar
    • ½ cup Honey
    • 1 tsp Orange Zest
    • ¼ cup Orange Juice
    • ½ cup Water
    • ½ cup Water
    • 3 tbsp Cocoa Powder
    • ¾ cup Banana (mashed) egg substitute
    • ½ cup Walnuts
    • 1½ cup All Purpose Flour | Maida
    • ½ tsp Baking Soda
    • ½ tsp Baking Powder
    • 1 tsp Cinnamon powder

    Instructions

    Chocolate Fruit Cake

    • Take raisins, dates, prunes, orange zest, orange juice, cocoa powder, butter, brown sugar, honey, water in a sauce pan and bring it to a boil. Boil for 5 mins. Remove it from heat and allow it to cool for 30 mins. Add in egg and mix well. Add in flour, baking soda, baking powder, cinnamon and mix well. Spoon this in a parchment lined baking pan. I used two 6 inch round cake pans.

    Baking without Oven

    • Heat a heavy bottom kadai covered for 10 mins. Now place a separator in the bottom and place cake pan. Cover and cook for 40 to 45 mins till cake is cooked. Remove and cool completely. Un mould and serve.

    Baking in oven

    • Preheat oven to 150 degree C. Butter a deep round tin(8 to 10 inch) and line the bottom with parchment paper or wax paper. Now line the sides with parchment paper as well in the way that the paper is somewhat extended above the tin  which prevents the cake from burning and sticking all over the tin when it rises as it bakes. Butter all over the tin generously and keep it aside. Pour the batter into the tin and bake it the oven for  45 mins to 1 hour. The cake looks little moist and sticky on top but has some moist texture in the middle. Remove it from the oven and allow to cool down completely. Now remove it from the tin and allow to cool down completely again. Since you have lined it with parchment paper it won’t be hard to remove the cake from tin. Decorate it as per your wish and serve or store in an air tight container.

    Eggless Chocolate Fruit Cake

    • Preheat oven to 160 degree C. Grease a 8 inch nonstick pan with oil and set aside.
    • Take all dried fruits in a sauce pan. Add in orange juice and pulp, sugar, butter, cocoa, water and bring it to a boil. Cook for 5 minutes. Take it off the heat and allow it to cool. Once cooled, Add in mashed banana and mix well. Now in a separate bowl, mix flour, baking powder, baking soda, spices and walnuts. Pour chocolate mix in and fold gently.
    • Spoon the batter into pan and bake for 1 hour. Remove and cool completely. Slice and serve.

    Video

    YouTube video

    Notes

    • If you are planning to bake it in oven. Bake it in 160 degree c for 40 to 50 mins.
    • You can increase the amount of fruit if you want. Use only seedless black raisins.
    • If you don't have prunes and dates. Use 2 cups of black raisins.
    • You can add ginger powder, cardamom powder, mix spice powder, nutmeg powder for added flavour.
    • For baking without oven. Use a heavy bottom pan with fitting lid. Use hard anodised pan for best result. Don't use nonstick pan. since it is not ideal to heat nonstick empty. You can also use Use aluminium and indalium pan.
    • You can use a pressure cooker for baking. If you are using pressure cooker, don't use whistle or gasket.

    How to Feed Fruit Cake

    Fruit cake matures as it sits. You can make fruit cakes a month in advance. But this fruit cake since it is boiled you can make it a week in advance and store in a cool place.
    You can start feeding the cake 2 to 3 days before serving. Take some rum and brush it all over the cake. Repeat this daily. This is how you feed a fruit cake.

    Nutrition

    Serving: 1servings | Calories: 339kcal | Carbohydrates: 59g | Protein: 4g | Fat: 12g | Saturated Fat: 7g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 3g | Trans Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 68mg | Sodium: 71mg | Potassium: 250mg | Fiber: 3g | Sugar: 41g | Vitamin A: 474IU | Vitamin C: 4mg | Calcium: 46mg | Iron: 2mg
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    Over the past few years I’ve been on a mission to find and create recipes that I can make from scratch. I hope you enjoy the recipes on this blog as they are tried and true from my kitchen to yours!

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    1. Kalpana Sareesh

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      Will mail u my address pls send it me it involves too too much of work which i can never def find time..so pls send it to me.. if not its a sin for u..i cant wait to dive in it..truly awesome ..no words..

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    2. Priya's Feast

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      Wow..this luks scrumptious...luvly way to make instant christmas cake.. 🙂

      Reply
    3. Achu

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      AWESOMEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE So yummyyyyy....Awaiting to bake it..Can i soak all dried fruits into rum for abt 1 to 2 weeks?Wat abt rum...u didn't add?awaitin to hear it

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    4. Aarthi

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      Kalpana...Ha Ha..find some 3 hours for urself and try it..it is worth a try..You will feel really proud about yourself after you are done with it..trust me..

      Aarthi

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    5. Aarthi

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      Achu...You don't need to soak your fruits in rum..since you are boiling the fruits you needn't do it..You can definitely add rum to this..add it along with the butter while you are boiling it..Please try it and let me know the results..

      Aarthi

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    6. veena krishnakumar

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      looks very yummy aarti!!!love the pictorial

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    7. Manju

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      That looks divine Aarthi....great work!!

      Regards,
      Manju
      htp://manjuseatingdelights.blogspot.com

      Reply
    8. Inside a British Mum's Kitchen

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      This cake looks amazing - and it should with all those wonderful ingredients - I think I would eat nothing else at Christmas! Delicious 🙂
      Mary x

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    9. Inside a British Mum's Kitchen

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      This cake looks amazing - and it should with all those wonderful ingredients - I think I would eat nothing else at Christmas! Delicious 🙂
      Mary x

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    10. Namitha

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      Love fruit cake. Today I'll be baking a couple of them for sending to friends 🙂

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    11. Neetz

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      superb superb superb!! mERRU X'MAS TO U DEAR!!!

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    12. Chitra

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      Simply Superb Aarthi...going to try it soon...

      Reply
    13. Deeksha

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      super delicious cake. Great job.

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    14. Rocio Valle Gonzalez

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      mmmm it looks simply delicious!! awesome! thanx for sharing!! hugs!! 😉

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    15. Uma

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      OMG, It is really superb and you are great cook.

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    16. manu

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      Sounds yummy!

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    17. Shri

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      Sounds delicious and easy too!

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    18. VineelaSiva

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      The cakes looks awesome dear.Its very inviting.Love the way of explaining.

      Reply
    19. Hovkonditorn

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      What a beautiful fruit cake!

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    20. RAKS KITCHEN

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      Sounds super delicious! Yummy cake, wish I be ur neighbor to taste all ur cooking 🙂

      Reply
    21. SouthIndianHome

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      just yesterday i watched this video of Nigella Lawson and today here came the post from you.You have made it perfect.I was little skeptical about adding cocoa powder in fruit cake.now since you have already made it and it is delicious I will go ahead and try this

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    22. The Pumpkin Farm

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      wow Aarthi, this feels like christmas, what an amalgamation of flavors. loved every step and picture

      Reply
    23. Ganga Sreekanth

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      Looks so beautiful and tempting dear..

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    24. Mélange

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      Awesome Aarthi.The cake has come out perfectly for you.Moist and tempting.

      Reply
    25. Sharmilee! :)

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      Looks and sounds delicious

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    26. Maayeka

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      This looks so amazing....beautiful and delicious looking..great recipe!!!

      Reply
    27. Priya Sreeram

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      lovely; do check out the giveaway in my blog; cheers

      Reply
    28. zareena

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      mmmm... I loved all your snaps. Amazing cake recipe. Loved it a lot. I want it nowwwww 🙁

      Reply
    29. Anonymous

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      SUPER!!!!!!!!!!!!Ippavae Kanna Kattuthey.............

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    30. Anu

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      yummy yummy..love your blog..first time here..happy to follow your blog..

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    31. Chandrani

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      Perfect christmas cake, Aarthi....... Lovely description. I bookmarked this....

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    32. Anzz

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      The cake is perfect. Yours is the first Christmas cake in the Blogosphere, I believe. Merry Christmas dear.!

      Reply
    33. Kaveri

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      An Awesome bake Aarathi, Looks too good.

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    34. chitraj.hegde

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      Wow...Supper Yummy Looking cake....loved the flavors...must try recipe....perfect for Christmas eve...

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    35. Priya

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      Super rich looking incredible cake, looks super moist and quiet addictive.

      Reply
    36. Richa

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      that cake looks so scrumptious and as always love your step by step pictures!

      Reply
    37. Nalini's Kitchen

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      super yummy... cake,looks so moist and spongy......perfectly done,luv the texture....

      Reply
    38. Anonymous

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      Hi

      I would like to suggest something.
      Can you have a link for a printer friendly version for your recipes.
      I love so many of your recipes and everytime i have to copy paste it and then print it.
      Love the pictorial tooo.....pls dont ever stop uploading them
      But a link for printer friendly version would be highly appreciated

      Thanks

      - Rupa

      Reply
    39. Aarthi

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      Rupa...I have that option right in the footer of each post..You can see a print friendly option there..Please check it

      Aarthi

      Reply
    40. Anonymous

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      Hi aarthi i found ur blog last month and now a big fan of it. can u please do a favr to vegetarian like me. please mentiont he subtitute of eggs in ur recipees, as it will help me a lot to try ur recipees. thanks

      madhu

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    41. Nagalakshmi V

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      i've always wanted to try this combo. not sure when i will get around to doing it 🙂

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    42. Archana

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      Whew I am tired looking at these awesome pictures. Looks like lots of work and work. Send me the cake dear I will enjoy it.

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    43. sangee vijay

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      Wow...Aarthi great job,this looks so soft n moist fruit cake .,well explained n well presented!!
      Thanks for linking this awesome recipe to Bake Fest!!

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    44. Vardhini

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      Gorgeous looking plum cake and thx for linking to the event.

      Reply
    45. Preethi

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      Dear Aarthi,
      Let me be the first (am I???) to tell you that I tried this cake today and it came out awesoooommmeee!!!..Just followed your instructions and despite a slight burning on the top (did not heed you advise there, I guess), this cake is indeed moist and the orange juice and pulp all add to the flavour.....thanks a ton for this wonderful recipe dear. And yes, I did not use any liquer too!!!
      Love
      Preethi

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    46. Aarthi

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      @Preethi

      Preethi thanks for your comment dear..I glad that you loved it...Thanks again for trying...

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    47. Anonymous

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      @Aarthi

      any substitute for eggs?

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    48. Anonymous

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      substitute for egg?

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    49. Aarthi

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      @Anonymoususe egg substitute or i think you can use thick curd...I have never tried it, hope you will give it a try and tell me how it turned out

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    50. Nargis

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      Hey Aarti i wanted to know how many oranges u had used aprox?

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    51. Aarthi

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      @NargisI used 2 oranges

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    52. Lincy

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      I baked this cake last christmas, This year too i want to try this as it was a big hit with my family. Can you please tell the size of your baking pan which you used for this cake? which size will be appropriate? i have a small pan so last year i divided into two batches and made but i felt that the cake didnt rise as much as i would have liked

      Reply
    53. Anonymous

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      How much rum can we add to this?

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    54. Anonymous

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      Also, can we use wine? If we use any liquor should we add more sugar to compensate?

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    55. Anonymous

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      Why are we just mixing the egg and not whipping it till fluffy?

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    56. Aarthi

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      @Lincy I used a 16 cm pan i think

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    57. Aarthi

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      @Anonymous 1/4 cup would be fine

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    58. Aarthi

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      @AnonymousNo You dont need to add more sugar

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    59. Aarthi

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      @AnonymousFor this cake we dont need to whip the eggs

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    60. hilltopsinger

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      Please help! Im not able to find baking soda in my place. Is baking soda and cooking soda the same thing?

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    61. Aarthi

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      @hilltopsingeryes they are same

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    62. Caroline Ramya

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      Hi Arthi,
      Did try out this cake and it turned to be a disaster. Don't know what went wrong since I sincerely followed all your interactions. The top got burnt and the bottom was not done so had to keep on baking it. The stick method of checking well done did not work out here. Also found the cake to be tooo sweet. Could have reduced the honey or sugar.

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    63. Aarthi

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      @Caroline RamyaI am sorry to hear that. I have mentioned in the comment to cover the cake if it gets too brown half way through. And the sugar level mentioned in this cake is perfect, it will give you a moderately sweet cake. I think may be you must have messed with the measurement. Try it once again and let me know how it turns out.

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    64. Anitha Vivi

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      Hi, can u post how long to bake it wen i bake this in microwave oven?
      As i dont have an baking oven.
      Also
      Wen should i add the rum?

      Thanks Anitha

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    65. Aarthi

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      @Anitha ViviFor microwave fruit cake, check this...

      https://www.yummytummyaarthi.com/2013/12/microwave-plum-cake-microwave-fruit.html

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    66. Anonymous

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      Hi Arthi,

      Tried this and this came out really awesome, the taste is just phennomenal. Thank you for this recipe.
      Also I have a question: When I made this, the texture of the cake was not very knife friendly. In the sense, it was not possible to cut it into shapely pieces and part of it would crumble and the fruits come out. Any thoughts on how I could fix that?

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    67. Aarthi

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      @AnonymousChill the cake for a while and cut it, you will get clean slices. Also use a serated knife to cut the cake/

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    68. LoVeLy AsH

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      If using yogurt instead of eggs.. how much should i take?

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    69. Anonymous

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      Hi Aarthi... Pls tell if the butter you use in your cakes and bakery is the regular Amul butter or some unsalted one?

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    70. Aarthi

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      @AnonymousIt is unsalted butter

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    71. Aarthi

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      @LoVeLy AsHNot sure if eggs can be substituted

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    72. Anonymous

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      Can almond powder be avoided? Not having almonds at home at present!

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    73. Aarthi

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      @Anonymousyes u can leave almond powder..Or you can use cashew powder instead

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    74. Anonymous

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      This is by far the best recipe i got on net for christmas cake...thanks a ton for sharing it with step by step photos....helped a lot...n yeah ..my cake turned out awesome...i hope i could also have shared a pic as i decorated it well 🙂

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    75. Shalini Senthil

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      Hi Aarthi can i try this in pressure cooker? Last time when i baked normal plum cake(i.e. without boiling fruits &without egg) i got big and lot of cracks at the top and looked hard.. I thought over cooked but later when tasted it actually should have been cooked for some more time. So any tips to avoid crack using pressure cooker? Thanks in advance

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    76. Aarthi

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      @Shalini SenthilIf your cake cracks,u have used small cake pan. DOnt fill cake more than half of the tin.

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      • Shalini Senthil

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        I filled only half of the pan... should the mixture be thin.. will thick mixture cause this?

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    77. Aarthi

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      @Shalini SenthilYes the batter consitency is little thin, and thick batter will cause this. u right.

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    78. Shalini Senthil

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      Yes Aarthi this time batter consistency is bit thin and it came out soo well... 🙂 no cracks at all... Awaiting to taste it... looks yummy... Thanks for the easy recipe 😉

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    79. manasa

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      Hi Aarthi,
      The cake looks amazing.i want to try this for my husbands bday.he loves plum cake.
      I just want to know if I can add some nuts like walnuts..If I add should I do something different and how much quantity can I add.

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    80. Aarthi

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      @manasayou can add nuts. no different in recipe just same

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    81. manasa

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      Thanks for the quick reply Aarthi!!

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    82. Shefali

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      Hi Aarthi,
      Awesome recipe and the outcome is just amazing. I tried baking this cake and it turned out to be the best plum cake u can ever have. I also did a very thin layer of sugar icing. I did put rum. I put little less sugar.
      Thank you very much. I love using your recipes; they are great.
      God bless u!
      I would like to share a picture of the cake but don't know how to do that.

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      • Aarthi

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        U can send it to my email id [email protected]

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    83. Anonymous

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      Hi Aarthi,
      I have tried many of your recipes.
      Its simply awesome. I have one doubt in this cake...can i add self raising flour? What are the dos and donts for that?

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      • Aarthi

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        not sure about self rising flour

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    84. Soumita Biswas

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      Yesterday I made chocolate fruit cake / super plum moist cake without parchment paper as it is not available in market, did by aluminium foil coated with butter but still cake was not baked properly. Pls suggest need your help as I m making it for Christmas...... Could you pls tell this cake can be done without paper or foil or then it will bake properly...required your suggestion

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      • Aarthi

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        u can use foil. just increase the cooking time.

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    85. Anonymous

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      Hi Aarthi,
      We are using Morphy Richards 40 Rcss, as you had advised earlier. Now for this plum cake which rack should we put the trays, as there are 4 racks.

      Also, must state that your site inspired us to go for our own otg .
      Your advice will be really appreciated.
      Regards,
      David

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      • Aarthi

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        You can put it in the middle rack. like 3 one or so

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    86. Fermie Praisid

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      Tried it twice and it came out well. Thanks for the recipe. Just that it is a bit time consuming. But the taste was worth the wait. Thanks ☺

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    87. Blab Out

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      5 stars
      Many thanks. An abundance of facts.

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    88. Jeni

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      How many kgs of cake is this mam?
      I need to make for 35 members... how much is required mam?

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      • Aarthi

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        This serves 12 to 15

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    89. Jeni

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      Thank you mam

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    90. Jesi

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      Hi Aarathi, I tried chocolate fruit cake it came out very well.Thank you so much for the recipe.I just wanted to know the shelf life of this cake with out rum?

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