For this month’s Blog Hop Wednesday, I am paired with Roshan of Roshan’s Cucina. She has a lot of delicious recipes in her blog. As I am always interested in eggless baking, I selected the recipe for Eggless Buttermilk Fruit Cake from her blog to try. The cake was so soft, fluffy and moist with the dates. I think buttermilk renders the fluffiness to the cake. The cake uses powdered white sugar unlike the other fruit cakes which use brown sugar as the sweetener. The cake was so easy to prepare. No beating the butter and sugar together. Just mix wet ingredients and dry ingredients separately. Then mix both, add the chopped fruits and bake. The cinnamon and nutmeg made the cake spicier and flavourful. Thank you Roshan for the lovely recipe.
Recipe Source: Roshan
Ingredients:
Dry Ingredients:
Flour (Maida) – 100gms
Wheat flour – 140gms
Sugar – 160 gms
Nutmeg – 1tsp
Ground Cinnamon – 1tsp
Baking soda – 1tsp
Salt – 1 pinch
Sugar – 160 gms
Nutmeg – 1tsp
Ground Cinnamon – 1tsp
Baking soda – 1tsp
Salt – 1 pinch
Wet Ingredients:
Buttermilk – 250 – 260ml
Melted butter (unsalted) – 120gms
Vanilla extract – ¾ tsp
Melted butter (unsalted) – 120gms
Vanilla extract – ¾ tsp
Dry Fruits:(I used the dry fruits available in my kitchen)
The quantity of the fruits must be 275gm. Choose what is available in your pantry.
Golden Raisins-50gm
Dates-75gm
Apricot-100gm
Fig-50gm
Procedure:
1. Deseed the dates and chop them.
2. Chop all the other fruits into tiny bits.
3. Mix flours together.
4. Take a tbs of the flour and add it with the fruits and mix it until the flour coats the fruits. This will prevent the fruits from sinking to the bottom of the cake.
5. Add baking soda, sugar and salt to the flour and mix well.
6. Melt butter and bring to room temperature.
7. Add the butter milk and vanilla essence and whisk well.
8. Preheat oven to 170C.
9. Grease and dust a 8″ round tin.
10. Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients and mix.
11. Add in the fruits and give a nice mix.
12. Pour batter into the tin and smoothen the surface.
13. Bake for 35-40minutes.
14. In between, if the cake tends to become darker on top, place an aluminium foil on top of tin and bake.
15. Insert a tooth pick and if it comes out clean, then remove the tin from the oven.
16. Let it cool for 10minutes.
17. Invert the cake onto a wire rack and remove tin.
18. When cake cools, flip it again on the serving plate.
19. Slice into wedges and serve.
Enjoy!
wow! the cake looks perfectly made… I’m real curious to taste it.. cakes made with buttermilk always interests me and surprises me by tasting even better than it looks 🙂
I have never used buttermilk in place of eggs before, I will surely try this recipe soon and tell you how it goes 🙂
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wow yum yum…very fluffy fruit cake …perfectly baked without eggs….luv u clicks too
Looks amazing, fruit cake is one of my fav…
i love fruit cakes !! this one is just perfect
Looks so soft and tempting!
Using buttermilk is such a good choice and i can see how fluffy the cake has turned out.
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Cake looks yummy..:)) I am beginning to try eggless recipes in baking and bookmarked this one..:)
Thanks for sharing dear..
Reva
Hi Gayathri,
Your eggless butter milk fruit cake looks tasty
You can submit your eggless butter milk fruit cake looks pics on http://www.foodporn.net It is a food photography site where members can submit all food pictures that make readers hungry 🙂
I am already hungry to see your eggless butter milk fruit cake looks photo btw, LOL
Thank you Hillary. I will surely submit it..
Excellent and super spongy cake, makes me drool.
eggless cake looks moist and yum
wow, that looks great and has come out so well 🙂
Another one of your baking delights!
Eggless fruit cake! that is awesome 🙂
Delicious fruit cake.. Love the fact that its eggless.
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Cake looks moist and tempting Gayathri.
Vardhini
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That looks perfectly baked. One question. Did u make your own buttermilk? If so, what are the quantities of curd and water?
Hi Swetha! I get buttermilk when I prepare home made butter. You can check the post at http://gayathriskitchenbasics.blogspot.in/2012/01/home-made-butter.html
Looks so soft and fluffy. I guess dates is so good in eggless bakes. Dates have never failed me while trying to bake eggless.
Sounds and looks like a delicious eggless fruit cake.
Wonderful cake with butter milk.
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Thanks a lot. For Sharing this information, Eggless Fruit cake better for vegetarian People. and its taste is much better the egg fruit cake.
Fruit and nut cake
Hi Gayathri,your cake looks fantastic…can’t wait to try it out..just one question though..I don’t see where the sugar comes in..Is it mixed with the dry ingredients or later with the butter?
It is added along with dry ingredients. Forgot to mention it in the post. Updated now..