Chocolate Fruit Cake Recipe made without oven in a kadai or pan. You can easily bake a moist and fruit cake without oven. Also don’t miss to check my eggless plum cake.
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Chocolate Fruit Cake Recipe
Ultimate chocolate fruit cake recipe. This is one of the best fruit cake recipe you can ever imagine and so simple to make. The only thing it takes couple of hours to bake and it is worth every second.
About Chocolate Fruit Cake Recipe
Fruit cakes are a popular cakes baked during christmas season. The cake is filled with juicy dried fruits and nuts. Fruit Cake which is rich and moist.
You could add any dry fruits in it as per your liking. The list of dry fruits are pretty endless, you could add dried prunes, cherries, currants, candied lemon peel, candied orange peel and many more.
In this recipe we are adding some cocoa powder to make it chocolate fruit cake.
In this post I have shared recipe for making this chocolate fruit cake in a pan or a kadai if you don’t have oven.
I baked it yesterday and believe it or not everything got over right now. I took a few pieces (which I saved it from my sisters) to office and everyone loved it. They told me that it is so much better than the store bought one. I love plum cakes a lot than any other cakes, but some bakery here supply this with dry little fruits in it and the cake itself looks so dry. But there is one bakery here which supply a awesome cake which has a lovely flavor of fruits in it. And this one came better than that too. Which is pretty amazing.
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This is the chocolate fruit cake which I baked in oven
How to Make Chocolate Fruit Cake without Oven
- Take raisins, dates, prunes, orange zest, orange juice, cocoa powder, butter, brown sugar, honey, water in a sauce pan and bring it to a boil. Boil for 5 mins.
- Cool it down for 30 mins.
- Add in egg and mix well.
- Add in flour, baking soda, baking powder, cinnamon and mix well.
- Spoon this in a parchment lined baking pan.
- Heat a heavy bottom kadai covered for 10 mins.
- Now place a separator in the bottom and place cake pan. Cover and cook for 40 to 45 mins till cake is cooked.
- Remove and cool completely
- Un mould and serve.
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Chocolate Fruit Cake Recipe (without oven)
A Rich Chocolate Fruit Cake or Plum cake which can be made in a kadai. This fruit cake can be made without an oven.
Ingredients
Instructions
How to Make Chocolate Fruit Cake (without oven)
Take raisins, dates, prunes, orange zest, orange juice, cocoa powder, butter, brown sugar, honey, water in a sauce pan and bring it to a boil. Boil for 5 mins.
Cool it down for 30 mins.
Add in egg and mix well.
Add in flour, baking soda, baking powder, cinnamon and mix well.
Spoon this in a parchment lined baking pan. I used two 6 inch round cake pans.
Heat a heavy bottom kadai covered for 10 mins.
Now place a separator in the bottom and place cake pan. Cover and cook for 40 to 45 mins till cake is cooked.
Remove and cool completely
Unmould and serve.
How to Bake Chocolate Fruit Cake
Video
Notes
- You can increase the amount of fruit if you want.
- If you don’t have prunes and dates. Use 2 cups of black raisins.
- Add in seedless black raisins.
- If you are planning to bake it in oven. Bake it in 150 degree c for 40 to 50 mins
- You can increase the amount of fruit if you want.
- If you don’t have prunes and dates. Use 2 cups of black raisins.
- Add in seedless black raisins.
- You can add ginger powder, cardamom powder, mix spice powder, nutmeg powder for added flavor.
- Use a heavy bottom pan with fitting lid.
- Use hard anodised pan for best result.
- Don’t use nonstick pan. since it is not ideal to heat nonstick empty.
- Use aluminium and indalium pan.
- You can use a pressure cooker for baking. If you are using pressure cooker, dont use whistle or gasket.You can add ginger powder, cardamom powder, mix spice powder, nutmeg powder for added flavor.
How to Feed a Fruit Cake
Fruit cake matures as it sits. You can make fruit cakes a month in advance. But this fruit cake since it is boiled you can make it a week in advance and store in a cool place.
You can start feeding the cake 2 to 3 days before serving. Take some rum and brush it all over the cake. Repeat this daily. This is how you feed a fruit cake.
Nutrition Facts
Chocolate Fruit Cake Recipe (without oven)
Amount Per Serving (1 servings)
Calories 339
Calories from Fat 108
% Daily Value*
Fat 12g18%
Saturated Fat 7g44%
Trans Fat 1g
Polyunsaturated Fat 1g
Monounsaturated Fat 3g
Cholesterol 68mg23%
Sodium 71mg3%
Potassium 250mg7%
Carbohydrates 59g20%
Fiber 3g13%
Sugar 41g46%
Protein 4g8%
Vitamin A 474IU9%
Vitamin C 4mg5%
Calcium 46mg5%
Iron 2mg11%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.
Chocolate Fruit Cake Recipe without Oven with Step by Step Pictures
1)Take all your ingredients
2)Take a sauce pan
3)Add in seedless black raisin
4)Add in prunes and dates
5)Add in butter
6)Add in brown sugar
7)Add in honey
8)Add in water
9)Add in cocoa powder
10)Add in orange zest
11)Add in orange juice
12)Place it on heat and cook till it starts to boil
13)Boil this for 4 to 5 mins
16)Cool the mix and add in egg
17)Add in flour
18)add in baking soda and baking powder
19)Add in spice powders
20)Fold gently
21)Spoon the batter into pans lined with parchment paper.
22)Place a separater in the bottom of a heavy bottom kadai and heat the kadai covered for 10 mins
23)Place cake pan in it.
24)Cover and cook
25)Serve
Frequently Asked Questions
How to Feed a Fruit Cake
Fruit cake matures as it sits. You can make fruit cakes a month in advance. But this fruit cake since it is boiled you can make it a week in advance and store in a cool place.
You can start feeding the cake 2 to 3 days before serving. Take some rum and brush it all over the cake. Repeat this daily. This is how you feed a fruit cake.
Soaking Dried Fruits for Fruit Cake
Usually for fruit cakes they soak these dried fruits in brandy or rum for a month, so that the fruits gets all flavors and it plumps up a little. But in this cake since we are boiling the fruits, it gets the plumpness and flavor without any hard work. And the heat gives so much moistness to the cake.
This is Nigella Lawson’s Chocolate Fruit Cake Recipe and it was in my mind for more than a year since I watched her show. I waited for the christmas season to arrive to try this recipe and finally I made it. It came out so much better than I expected, frankly I am now crazy about this and want it each and every day.
If you want to make it even more authentic, just use a slash or two of rum that will bring more christmas flavor to the cake.
Pro Tips
- If you are planning to bake it in oven. Bake it in 150 degree c for 40 to 50 mins
- You can increase the amount of fruit if you want.
- If you don’t have prunes and dates. Use 2 cups of black raisins.
- Add in seedless black raisins.
- You can add ginger powder, cardamom powder, mix spice powder, nutmeg powder for added flavor.
- Use a heavy bottom pan with fitting lid.
- Use hard anodised pan for best result.
- Don’t use nonstick pan. since it is not ideal to heat nonstick empty.
- Use aluminium and indalium pan.
- You can use a pressure cooker for baking. If you are using pressure cooker, dont use whistle or gasket.
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(this post is originally published in 2011 & updated on current date)
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