Plum and Mixed Spice Christmas Cake
The secret ingredient in this easy Christmas cake is plum baby good - but you could also use pureed plums if you prefer.
Ingredients
Serves: 16
- 250ml vegetable oil
- 3 eggs
- 225g plum baby food or pureed plums
- 1 2/3 cups (375g) caster sugar
- 2 cups (250g) plain flour
- 1 teaspoon ground cloves
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon bicarb soda
- 125g chopped nuts
- For the glaze
- 125g icing sugar
- 2 1/2 tablespoons lemon juice
Directions
Preparation:10min ›
Cook:50min ›
Ready in:1hour
- Preheat the oven to 180 degrees C. Grease and flour your cake or loaf tins of choice.
- In a large bowl, mix together vegetable oil, caster sugar, eggs and pureed plum.
- In separate bowl, mix together flour, cloves, cinnamon, nutmeg, salt, bicarb soda and nuts. Mix wet and dry ingredients together. Turn into prepared tin.
- Bake in the preheated oven for 50 to 60 minutes or until it tests done.
- Remove from oven to cool 10 minutes in tin. Remove and place on cooling rack.
- While cooling, combine icing sugar and lemon juice to form the glaze. Brush over top while cake is still hot.
Potential Christmas Presents
This makes a great presents if you use mini loaf or small tube cake tins.
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Oh so delicious. I definitely recommend very ripe plums instead of the babyfood. i used about 1 1/4 cups plum puree. this recipe is also delicious for muffins. mmmmmmmmmm - 22 Feb 2005 (Review from Allrecipes USA and Canada)
I changed it a little. I put one and 1/2 cups of plum preserve I made with red plums, and instead of walnuts I chopped up the red plums and mixed them inside the batter. (I also nixed the red food coloring). After pouring the batter I spooned several t spoons of the plum preserve on top and swirled in a design. I nixed the sugar topping because it was sweet with the preserve and a bit tart as well. I scooped vanilla ice cream on top and it was done. YUM! - 10 Aug 2010 (Review from Allrecipes USA and Canada)
this was great! i added tea (instead of cloves and nutmeg) to both the frosting/sauce and the batter, which i thought was delicious. it's best in small doses, though. - 22 Jul 2008 (Review from Allrecipes USA and Canada)