Planning to bake a crispy, sandy dry fruit cake ? Then here is the recipe for you. It is a sandy cake. Why am I calling it a sandy cake ? Yes on touching it you feel like sand. You can store this cake in a closed container and store safe for 5 - 6 days. Not necessary to store in a fridge. Enjoy this with coffee. Mmm... definitely you will be prasied for your delicious sandy dry fruit cake. By adding orange peel and orange sugar it adds orange flavour to cake. Take a orange and grate the peel using a grater. Eventhough the outer crust seems to be brownish it too tastes good. You can also serve this with cream.
Serves 6 Pieces
Ingredients
All Purpose Flour 150g
Orange Peel Powder 10g (optional)
Margarine 100g
Sugar 100g
Egg 2 Nos
Baking Powder 1 1/2 tsp
Dry fruit 100g
Sultana 25g
Orange juice 4 tbsp
Milk 2 tbsp
Method
Use a 18 cm dia round cake form.
Greese the inner cylindrical side of the form using margarine.
Place a baking sheet above the bottom plate of the form so that batter doesnt stick to it and it is easy to remove from form.
If you dont have baking sheet then just apply margarine to the bottom plate of form.
Sieve all purpose flour and baking powder and keep aside.
This is done to avoid lumps in the flour
The orange peel powder can be got by drying the oramge peel and powdering it using mixer grinder.
If you dont have orange peel powder then just ignore this ingredient.
Add orange peel powder to the flour.
In a plate place the dry fruits and sultana and dust it with a little of flour so that it is not sticky and keep aside.
Preheat oven for 10 min at 150 degree centigrade.
In a bowl add the butter and suagr.
Mix it well using a electric mixer for 5 min.
Now add the eggs one by one to the butter sugar cream and mix well using mixer for about 3 min.
Add the flour to it little by little and mix well using a spatula.
Hereafter use a flat spatula for mixing.
At this stage it is a thick batter.
Add the orange juice & milk and mix well.
Now add the dry fruits to it and mix well.
Pour this batter into greased the from.
Bake it for 1 hour at 150 degree centigrade.
Insert a wooden stick like a tooth picker into the cake.
If it is done then tooth picker comes out clean else bake for some more time.
If the tooth picker comes out wet and the colour of cake is dark then reduce the temperature and bake for some more time.
After it is done allow it to cool for atleast 10 min.
I have baked it for 5 min extra and so it is a little bit more brownish at the top crust.
So after 40 min have a look at the cake for every 5 min.
