A quick and easy christmas cake, no soaking of fruits required. Just raisins and rum.
Ingredients
125 gms flour
125 gms fine brown sugar
125 gms butter
2 eggs
1 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp soda bicarbonate
1/4 cup rum
3/4 cup raisins , finely chop them
extra 1 tsp flour for coating raisins
few extra raisins for sprinkling on the top and little flour to coat the raisins
2 tbsp rum for brushing the cake
Method
Melt the butter and the sugar together in a small vessel or pan on very low flame. Keep stirring till butter melts and sugar dissolves.
Remove from heat .
Sift the flour , baking powder and soda bicarbonate together and keep aside
Using a hand whisk , whisk the two eggs well.Mix the egg mixture and cooled butter and sugar mixture together. Add 1/4 cup rum and whisk . Add the sifted flour , mix a tbsp at a time and combine well with the help of a hand whisk.
Next add a tsp of flour to the finely chopped raisins , coat well, sift . Add these raisins to the batter and fold in with the help of a spatula. Line a baking tin with parchment paper , add this batter .
Take few more raisins , finely chop them, coat with very little flour , sift . sprinkle on the top of the batter
Bake in a preheated oven at 180 degrees for 30 mins or till done
poke holes with a toothpick and brush the cake with rum 2 to 3 times
Lastly dust with icing sugar
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