Plum Cake

Christmas is here and christmas will be incomplete without an Plum cake. Baking a plum cake for christmas has always been on my wish list for a long time, this is my first attempt to bake a Plum cake and I'm very happy that it came out so well. So, here's the recipe. Enjoy your Christmas. Merry christmas everyone!!

Ingredients: 300g maida(all purpose flour)
                    250g sugar
                    250g butter
                    5 eggs
                    50g raisins
                    50g cashew nuts
                    50g dates
                    50g glazed cherries
                    50g toasted almonds
                    1/2tsp caramel color
                    1/2tsp baking powder
                    1tsp vanilla essence
                    4tbsp cooking rum(or orange juice)
                    1' cinnamon stick
                    1/2nutmeg
                    4 cardamoms
                    1 clove

Method: 1)soak the raisins in rum overnight. chop the raisins and nuts. keep aside.
              2)powder the spices cinnamon, nutmeg, cardamoms and cloves together and pass them
                 through a sieve.
              3)in a bowl beat together the sugar and butter till creamy. add eggs one by one and keep
                 beating continuously. add the vanilla essence and spice powder and beat well. keep aside.
              4)in a bowl sieve together the flour and the baking powder. add all the chopped nuts and mix
                 well along with flour, so that all the nuts are coated well with the flour.
              5)with a light hand fold in the flour mixture with the butter and egg mixture.
              6)grease a baking dish and line it with the butter paper. pour this mixture in a baking dish and      
                 bake in a preheated oven at 250 degree for 10mins and then at 22 degree for 2 hours.
              7)remove from the oven and allow to cool for 10mins. remove from the pan and allow to cool
                 for 2 hours.