I have been thinking of baking a fruit cake for ages, but somehow all the recipes of those gorgeous fruit cakes are so lengthy maybe really great for once in year kind of Christmas baking but what if you want a delicious fruit cake in a jiffy, this is exactly that kind of of Cake and the best part is that it keeps fresh for several weeks!
Quick Cocoa Fruit Cake
Ingredients-
- Flour, sifted-1 1/2 cups
- Sugar- 1 cup
- Cocoa- 3 tbsp.
- Salt- 1/2 tsp.
- Egg- 1, well beaten
- Soda- 1 tsp.
- Butter(melted) / Refined oil- 5 tbsp.
- Vanilla essence- 1 tsp
- Milk- 3/4 cup
- Vinegar- 1 tbsp.
- 1/2 cup grated coconut
- 1/2 cup chopped mixed fruit, dredged with flour
Method-
Take a large bowl and add all the ingredients, and mix together very well for 10 minutes.Preheat oven to 180 deg.C and bake for 45 mins. in a well greased and lined pan.
Cover immediately after removing from oven so that the cake remains soft, store in an airtight box.
This recipe yields one large cake, we really enjoyed it with Fruit Ice-Cream!.
This cake goes for my event-the theme for this month is Cakes and muffins .
Looks beautiful, who wouldn't want to receive that for a gift!:)
ReplyDeleteYummy cake
ReplyDeleteI have posted a recipe for your event today.
I will send you the mail tommorow
oohh...i was soo looking for a quick fruit cake recipe!! this looks delicious..
ReplyDeleteLooks like chocolate is still your favourite thing!
ReplyDeletebindya cake looks so rich nice recipe
ReplyDeleteHey dearie...that's an awesome cake. Do you think I could avoid the coconut n still get the same results?? I have a quickbread (sweet tea bread)made n clicked. Will you allow me to send that to your event??
ReplyDeletefruit cake in a jiffy..wow..what does vinegar do in a cake..pardon my ignorance....
ReplyDeleteShella- Yes you can definitely avoid the coconut and still get awesome results, and yesss! do send in that teabread to me!!
ReplyDeleteRachel- I think it has some acidic reaction with the soda, which can make the cake rise similiar to an egg,in fact you can omit the egg in this recipe too just add a tbsp. extra of milk.
ReplyDeleteI love the way you have presented this cake dearest, what a great gift!
ReplyDeletethis cake looks delicious - I love the idea of making fruit cake without all the palaver - and chocolate improves everything - have got this on my to do pile as one easy way to use up some dried fruit left over from Christmas - thanks
ReplyDeletehi! i was wondering if is there a certain order to mix the ingredients in? thanks!
ReplyDeleteHi Bindiya,
ReplyDeleteI was looking for a quick fruit cake recipe, found yours, baked it without the coconut and the vinegar, and the result was yummy and appreciated by all in my family. Thank you.