The perfect cake recipe for Christmas

Rita Rodricks from Mumbai shares her special Christmas cake recipe. You can share yours too!

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Rita's Christmas Cake

Ingredients:

12 eggs
450 gm fine sugar
560 gm butter
225 gm maida
225 gm semolina (suji)
2 tsp baking powder
225 gm mixed candied fruit peel
225 gm raisins
225 gm finely chopped cashewnuts
2 tsp vanilla essence
½ nutmeg, grated

Method:

Mix butter and sugar, add beaten yolks, suji and lastly stiffly beaten egg whites. Keep the same overnight.
In the morning, mix maida sieved with baking powder to the mixture. Mix candied peel with a little maida, add cashewnuts, vanilla essence and nutmeg.
Stir well and fill two cake tins to bake. Bake for 45 mins at 180°C or until a tooth pick inserted into the middle of the cake comes out clean.

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