Ingredients

• 100g - All purpose flour
• 1/2 tsp - Baking powder
• 1/2 tsp - Spice powder
• Rum - to soak mixed fruit
• 200g - Mixed candied peel, raisins, and glaced cherries, soaked in alcohol.
• 100g - Butter or margarine
• Milk- for folding into flour
• 1 tsp - Caramel syrup
• 80g - Sugar, castor
• 1 tsp - Caramel colour
• 1 tsp - Glycerine
• 2- Eggs
• 1 tsp - Black currants essence

How to Make Christmas Cake with Rum-soaked fruit

• Sieve the flour with the baking powder and mix in the spice powder.
• Soak the mixed fruit in alcohol for 4 days and drain out the excess alcohol from the fruit; mix it into the flour.
• Cream the butter and gradually add the sugar.
• Now add the caramel syrup, glycerine, and the caramel colour, and blend well.
• Add the eggs and essence and blend well.
• Now fold in the flour, adding water or milk if necessary to get a dropping consistency.
• Then pour the batter into a greased, lined, and dusted six-inch tin and bake at 160 degrees centigrade for one hour ten minutes.
• Recipe Courtesy: Mangalorean Recipes.