Easy 5 minute Christmas fruit Cake
The no soak, alcohol free, eggless Christmas fruit cake in microwave in 5 minutes is very easy to make. It's just assemble, mix, pour and micro high for 5 minutes and it's ready.
Servings 6 Inch Round cake
Ingredients
Dry ingredients
- All Purpose Flour / Maida 2 cups
- Cocoa powder 3 tblspn
- Baking soda ½ tsp
- Baking powder 1 tsp
- Cinnamon powder ¼ tsp
Wet ingredients
- Water ½ cup
- Brown Sugar ½ cup
- Craneberry juice ½ cup
- Vegetable Oil – ¼ cup
- Curd ¼ cup
- Honey 4 tblspn
Fruits and nuts
- Dried Fruits ½ cup Raisins, Dates, Tutti Fruity, Craneberry, Raspberries
- Nuts 3 tblspn Pecans/ Walnuts, Cashews, Almonds, Pistachios
Instructions
- First soak all dried fruits in ½ cup cranberries juice.
- Cover and keep aside for few minutes till we assemble all the ingredients to make cake.
- Take water in a microwave safe bowl and micro high for a minute till the water is hot.
- Mix hot water in previously soaked dried fruits and nuts and let it steep for few minutes.
- For mixing wet ingredients into soaked fruits, add honey and brown sugar to this.
- Next mix vegetable oil. Stir well and keep aside.
- In the mean time, for mixing dry ingredients take all purpose flour/maida, cocoa powder, baking soda, baking powder, cinnamon powder in a bowl and mix well.
- Sieve it twice.
- Now mix wet and dry ingredients together nicely with spatula and mix both well.
- Add curd and mix it well again. Add some more tuti fruity to this batter.
- Take a microwave safe bowl/tin, brush all side with oil.
- Place butter paper covering the bowl/tin for making cake.
- Pour the batter in till the half way.
- If required use 2 small bowls/tins. As the cake would need space to rise.
- Preheat the microwave for a minute.
- Place the bowl/tin inside the microwave and set the timer for 5 mins.
- Micro high the cake for 5 minutes and when it is done, leave it inside the hot microwave with a standing time of 5 mins.
- Remove it from oven, and check with a toothpick inserted.
- If it comes out clean it's ready.
- Allow it to cool completely. Invert it on a plate, slice it and enjoy.
Notes
1)Dont fill the microwave safe bowl to the brim. As the cake rises, just fill it half way. Or divide the batter in two bowls and micro it.
2)After you take the cake out of the microwave, allow the cake to cool completely before slicing it.