Christmas means festivities with cakes, which stretch on till New Year. Among all the type of cakes that are prepared around Christmas, Rum Cake is one of the most desired and wanted ones.
(Courtesy: Alica's Pepperpot)
Much to everyone’s delight, there is an easy way to prepare this delicious delicacy at home itself. Here’s how:
Ingredients:
• Semolina: 1 ½ cup
• Salt: ½ teaspoon
• Baking Powder: 1 tablespoon
• Butter: ½ tablespoon
• Brown Sugar (filtered): 130 grams
• Eggs: 3
• Vanilla Essence: ½ tablespoon
• Cardamom Powder: ½ tablespoon
• Cinnamon Powder: ½ tablespoon
• Honey: 1 tablespoon
• Fruit Jam: 1 tablespoon
• Dried Fruits (soaked in rum and orange juice): ½ kilograms
Method:
• Mix semolina, salt, and baking powder in a bowl, and filter the mixture.
• Beat the butter in a utensil and add brown sugar to it. Mix well.
• Mix eggs in the butter and sugar, and stir. Beat and stir every time you add something to the mixture.
• Now add the semolina mixture and keep stirring. Also add cardamom powder, cinnamon powder, vanilla essence, honey, and jam, and keep stirring.
• Add the soaked dried fruits in the last and stir properly.
• Pour the cake batter in a greased cake tin.
• Preheat the oven to 180 Celsius and bake the cake for around 40 minutes.
• Take it out from the cake tin and cut it into pieces to serve.