My last cake was Mawa (Koya) Cheese Cake for Diwali, after one and half month Fruit cake for Christmas. I couldn’t believe myself for such a change in my life style but, Christmas can’t be celebrated without a Cake! Hence, mentally prepared myself to cheat from HFLC !! Even during a cheat day I make sure that, I won’t cross 100 grams of carb’s per day and no more gluten :-)
This is my first gluten free cake. Yes, very little flour (no more wheat based) used just to bind the dry fruits. The cake tasted pretty similar to traditional (rum soaked) plum cake with loads of dry fruits in it. Though the ingredient’s list looks longer, the baking procedure is pretty easy and I’m sure you will love the taste and I bet, you can’t stop yourself with a single bite.
Ingredients : ¼ cup chopped apricot ; ¼ cup chopped raisins ; ¼ cup chopped dates ; ¼ cup chopped almonds ; ¼ cup chopped prunes ; ¼ cup chopped walnut ; ¼ cup of fresh orange juice ; ¼ cup of light brown sugar ; ½ tsp vanilla essence ; ½ tsp of ginger powder ; ½ tsp of cinnamon powder ; 1 ½ tbsp. of coco powder ; ½ cup of chocolate chip ; a pinch of cardamom powder ; 1 egg ; 60 gms of butter ; ½ cup of sorghums flour (remove 2 tbsp of flour and add 2 tbsp. tapioca flour or corn flour ) ; 1/4 tsp of baking powder ; ¼ tsp of baking soda ; ¼ cup of sugar ; 1 tbsp. of orange zest ; melted chocolate for Christmas tree decoration ; 1 tbsp. of icing sugar for snow effect
In a bowl add the melted butter and all the dry fruits, orange juice, orange zest, sugar and allow it to boil and remove from the heat (stove) and mix well and allow to cool at room temperature.
In a separate bowl add all dry ingredients like, flour, coco powder, baking powder, baking soda, cardamom powder, cinnamon powder, ginger powder and mix thoroughly and keep aside.
In mixing bowl beat egg with brown sugar and vanilla essence until sugar dissolved. Add the dry fruit mixture, Nuts (almond & walnut) and the flour mixture and blend till all fully combined and cake batter consistency.
Pour the batter in the greased 5½’’ cake pan and bake it in the 180◦c pre heated oven for about 30 minutes. And allow to cool to room temperature.
For Christmas tree, chocolate decoration : using melted chocolate draw the Christmas tree and transfer to the fridge to set and place them on the cake and sprinkle the icing sugar for snow effect.
Wishing you all Merry Christmas and wishing you a very happy & prosperous New year.
