Eggless Plum Cake | No Oven Plum Cake

Ingredients

Instructions

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   For this recipe we will need 1/4 cup of orange juice. You can either use fresh orange juice or use the one from a can. Add 1 tbsp of chopped almonds to it.

   
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   Now add 1 tbsp of cashew nuts to it

   
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   Add 1 tbsp of raisins to the mixture

   
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   You can add other berries and nuts available to you. We have added some orange and plain tutti frutti to the mixture. Keep the mixture in refrigerator for 1-2 hrs for cooling

   
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   Time to prepare the sugar cyrup. Take a pan.

   
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   Add 3/4 cup of sugar to it and switch on the flame. Keep the flame high so that the sugar melts fast

   
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   Keep stirring the sugar continuously or else it will burn

   
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   Within 2-3 minutes, the sugar will start melting. Add this point turn the gas flame to medium

   
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   After the sugar melts completely switch off the flame

   
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    Add 3/4 cup water to the sugar syrup.

    
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    Be careful while adding water to the sugar syrup as the sugar syrup is hot and mixture might splutter wile adding water. Add water in small portions

    
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    After adding water to the sugar syrup we will switch on the flame again on medium flame

    
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    Cook the mixture till everything is mixed together well

    
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    Keep the mixture aside and let it cool down completely. It will take about an hour for the syrup for cool down.

    
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    We can use a pressure cooker for baking our cake. We have use a vessel for it.

    
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    Place a stand in between the vessel.

    
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    Cover the vessel with a lid and preheat it on low flame for 15 minutes.

    
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    Till the time the vessel is getting preheated, we will prepare the batter and get our baking tin ready. We have used a 6 inch cake tin for this purpose

    
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    Greece the cake tin well with butter or oil

    
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    Place butter paper inside the cake tin so that we can remove the cake easilty after it is baked completely. Greece the butter paper with oil as well

    
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    Now we will prepare the batter for our plum cake. Take 1/4 cup milk in a bowl

    
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    Add 1/4 cup oil to it. Do not use any special type of oil like peanut oil or olive oil

    
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    Mix everything together well

    
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    Add the caramel syrup that we prepared earlier to the mixture and give it a good mix

    
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    Mix everything together to form a fine runny paste

    
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    Add 1 cup flour to the mixture using a strainer. We are using a strainer so that there are no lumps formed

    
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    Mix the mixture well using a spatula.

    
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    Now add the orange juice syrup with nuts to the mixture

    
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    Add 1/4 tsp of salt to it

    
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    Add 1/4 tsp of cardamon powder and 1/4 tsp of cinnamon powder to the mixture. Add a pinch of nutmeg powder to the mixture as well. This is completely optional

    
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    Mix everything together. As you can see consistency of the mixture is perfect. If you think the batter is thick, you can a bit of milk to it.

    
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    Now add 1 tsp baking powder to the mixture using a strainer

    
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    Add 1/4 tsp of baking soda to the mixture

    
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    Mix everything together well.

    
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    Add the batter to the cake tin immediately

    
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    Start baking the plum cake on low flame

    
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    We will open the cake while it has been half baked and garnish with nuts and berries of our choice.

    
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    Once again cover the cake with the lid and now we will only open it after the cake has been baked completely

    
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    After 40 minutes, the cake is ready

    
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    We can check if the cake has been baked properly by poking a tooth pick inside and if the tooth pick comes out clean, the cake has been baked perfectly

    
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    The cake will not stick to the sides but just to make sure, use a knife to remove the cake from the tin.

    
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    Remove the cake in a plate and remove the butter paper.

    
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    Your cake is ready. Enjoy!!