Fruit Cake

Ingredients
All Purpose flour/Maida - 1 1/2 Cup
Unsalted Butter - 115grams
Large Eggs - 3
Sugar - 1 Cup
Dry Fruits & Nuts - 1 Cup
Vanilla essence - 2 Spoons
Baking Powder - 1/2 Spoon
Baking Soda - 1/2 Spoon
Fresh Orange -1

Method

Sieve the flour with Baking soda & Baking powder three times.

Separate the egg whites and yolks.

Cream the butter and sugar till the mixture is light and fluffy.

Add in the egg yolks and vanilla essence and mix well.

Add the flour little by little and mix it slowly.

Beat the egg whites well and add it with the cake batter.

Grate the Zest of the orange and add it..take the orange juice and mix it.

Now mix the dry fruits and nuts in a spoon full of flour and add them into the cake mixture.


Pour the cake batter in a buttered baking pan and decorate it with the dry fruits.

Bake it in a 350F preheated oven for 35 minutes or till a knife inserted comes out clean.

Cool it for 2 hours and remove the cake form the baking pan.

Fruit cake is ready to serve.

Note
Butter and eggs should be in room temperature.