Ingredients

• All purpose flour - 200 g
• Butter - 125 ml
• Dry fruits (almonds, cashew nuts, petha, figs, dates, walnuts) - 1 cup
• 2 pinches - cinnamon powder
• Lime peel
• Julienned candied ginger
• Icing sugar - 150 g
• Milk - 1 cup
• Baking powder - 1 tsp
• Baking soda - 2 pinches
• Rum - 1/4 cup
• Cocoa powder - 2 tbsp
• Vanilla essence - 1 tsp
• For Caramel sugar syrup: Sugar - 2 tbsp
• Water - 4 tbsp

How to Make Eggless Dry Fruit Cake

• Preparing caramel sugar syrup:
• Melt sugar in a pan and heat until it turns dark brown
• Add water, mix thoroughly and boil.
• Cool the syrup and keep aside.
• Preparing the cake:
• Soak the dry fruits in rum for about one week.
• Mix the flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon powder and cocoa powder and sieve thrice.
• Mix some of the flour mixture in the dry fruits.
• Mix butter, essence and sugar, then slowly add the flour mix.
• Also alternatively keep adding the milk and the caramel syrup.
• Add the dry fruits. lemon peel, julienned candied ginger and mix well.
• Preheat the oven to 250 degrees C.
• Bake the cake for about 40 mins.
• Allow the cake to cool.