Fruit Cake

Ingredients

Milkmaid Sweetened Condensed Milk - 1 tin

Allpurpose flour(Maida) - 2 cups

Butter - 100 gm

Baking powder - 1 tsp

Soda bicarbonate - 1 tsp

Aerated Soda - 150 ml

Mixed dried fruits(chopped)Cashewnuts, Almonds(Badam), Walnuts, Cherries, Orangepeel -

1 1/2 cups or 150 gm

Cinnamon(Karugapatta) powder - 1/2 tsp
Nutmeg(Jathikka) powder - 1/2 tsp
Sugar - 1/2 cup or 75 gm
Water - 1/3 cup or 50
 
Preparation
 
Preheat oven to 180 degree cen.
Grease an 8" square cake tin with butter.
Heat sugar in a pan, till it melts.

Add water to make caramel syrup and keep aside.

Mix in 1 tbsp of maida to the chopped fruits to coat the fruit with the flour and keep aside.

Melt the butter in a pan.

Allow it to cool

Add milkmaid.

Sift together the maida, baking powder, sodabicarbonate, cinnamon and nutmeg.

Mix the maida with the milkmaid- butter mixture alternating with aerated soda, till both are over.

Add the caramel syrup and the chopped dry fruits and mix well.

pour into the greased cake tin and bake for 45 mins - 1 hr at 180 degree cen.

:- Preparation time - 30 - 40 mins

:- Baking time - 1 hr