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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