Ingredients:
- 1¼ cup all purpose flour
- ½ teaspoon baking powder
- ¼ teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon mixed spices (nutmeg, cinnamon, clove)
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ½ cup butter
- ½ cup brown sugar
- ½ cup white sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 cup rum or apple juice
- 3 eggs
- 1 cup fruit and peel mix (orange and leamon peel, cherries, pineapple)
- ¼ cup raisins
- ¼ cup walnuts
- ¼ cup chopped dates
- Caramel
- 1 tablespoon milk
Method:
For the caramel:
- Add ½ cup sugar to the pan. Heat it and stir it. Let the sugar melt completely. The color will change to brown. Keep the pan aside and add ¼ cup water to the melted sugar very slowly. Bring the pan back to boil and stir it for another 5 minuts. Turn off the flame and keep it aside. Let it cool down completely.
- Soak all the nuts and fruit mix in a apple juice or rum for a week. Keep the air tight container in a refrigerator.
- Pre-heat oven to 350℉.
- Sift together all the dry ingredients. (flour, baking powder, baking soda, mixed spices, and s salt)
- Cream butter, brown sugar, and white sugar together until it is well mixed. Add milk and vanilla.
- Add eggs one by one and mix everything with a hand blender.
- Get all the soaked nuts and fruit mix in a bowl. Mix 1-1½ tablespoon all purpose flour to the chopped nuts. Toss them and blend them in a creamed mixture. This will prevent them from sticking to the pan.
- Add caramel and mix the creamy mixture with a spatula.
- Fold in all the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients.
- Grease the round cake pan. Pour the batter. Bake for 40-50 minutes or until a toothpick inserted comes out clean.
- Remove from the oven. Allow it to cool for 10 minutes in the pan. Transfer it to wire rack to cool completely.
Notes:
- The baking time is different for everybody depending upon the oven and baking pan size.
- The fruit mix and nuts should get soaked properly. You can increase the amount of rum or apple juice accordingly.
- Be careful while adding water to the melted sugar. It may splash and cause burning.