Recipe for Basic Sponge Fruit and Nut Cake.

Basic Sponge Fruit and Nut Cake

Recipe for Basic Sponge Fruit and Nut Cake.

Ingredients

Flour (Maida) - 225 gram and 2tablespoon for dusting.

Baking powder- 1 teaspoon

Butter- 250 grams and 1 tablespoon for greasing

Eggs- 4

Sugar- 250 grams

Vanilla essence- 5 drops

Milk- Half cup

Cashew nut- 3 tablespoon

Raisins- 3 tablespoon

Method

1.       Preheat an oven at 180 C. Grease a cake tin with butter and dust with flour (Maida).

2.       In a bowl beat 4 eggs one by one and vanilla essence till fluffy and forms a soft peak. Keep it aside.

3.       In another bowl beat butter and sugar till it becomes fluffy.

4.       In another bowl sieve Maida and baking powder.

5.       Mix the Maida, egg mixture and butter mixture in a separate bowl by cut and fold method.

6.       Add the milk and mix well. Coat the dry fruits with dry Maida so that it does not sink below into the cake mixture. Put the dry fruits into the cake mixture.

7.       Pour the mixture in the tin and put it in the oven. Bake for 20 minutes to 25 minutes. Bake till the skewer comes clean. Let the cake cool for 10 minutes.

8.       De-mould and cut the cake into slices and serve.