Dry Fruit Cake

Ingredients

• 1 cup castor sugar
• 200 gm butter
• 2 tablespoon vanilla essence
• 4 eggs
• 1-3/4 cup all purpose flour (maida)
• 1 tablespoon baking powder
• Generous amount of coarsely grounded dry fruits, resins

Procedure

1. Take castor sugar and butter (softened) in a bowl.

2. Whip them at slow speed till the mixture is fluffy and sugar is dissolved completely.

3. Add vanilla essence to the mixture and whip it again.

4. Add eggs one at a time and whip the mixture till it is completely mixed.

5. Whip the eggs till the batter is light and fluffy.

6. Sieve mixture of baking powder and flour into the mixture. Do not add all of the flour at once. Add in small portions.

7. Use cut and fold technique to mix the flour in the batter.

8. Add half of the dry fruits mixture in the batter and mix.

9. Grease the cake tin with butter and dust it with flour.

10. Pre-heat the oven at 180 degree Celsius.

11. Add the batter to the tin and spread it evenly. add the remaining dry fruits on top.

12. Place the tin in oven and bake the cake for 40-45 mins at 180 degree Celsius.

13. Use toothpick to check if cake is cooked or not. prick the cake with toothpick and if it comes out clean then our cake is ready.

14. Enjoy the yummy cake :)