Fruit Cake (干果蛋糕)

Feeling bored? Try baking a cake..it will brighten up your day :)

 

Recipe makes a 9 inch square cake.

Ingredients (Part A):
250g Hard Butter (Direct from fridge and cut into few pieces for easy beating)
150g Sugar
5 Egg Yolks
250g Plain Flour        }  Sieve together
1 tsp Baking Powder   }
250g Mixed Dried Fruits (optional to soak with 50ml Hard Liquor or rum for 3 days)
1 tbsp Rum (add this if you didn't soak dried fruits with liquor or rum ahead of time)

Ingredients (Part B):
5 Egg Whites
50g Sugar
1/8 tsp Cream of Tartar

• Preheat oven to 160 degree. 
• Grease and lne a 9 inches square or round baking tin with paper.
• Cream Part A - butter and sugar together with slow speed first for 1 minute then turn to medium speed (speed 3 for Kenwood mixer) and cream for 15 minutes or until fluffy.

• Turn speed to slow and add in egg yolks (and rum) and mix well for another 2 to 3 minutes with medium speed.
• Add mixed dried fruits into the sieved flours (to seperate them so that they don't stick in a lump).
• Add flour cum dried fruits into mixer and cream with slow speed till well mixed (don't over mix).  Remove and transfer it into a big mixing bowl.

• Wash mixer bowl clean and dry it.  Pour in Part B (egg whites, sugar and cream of tartar) and use egg whisk and whisked at maximum speed until stiff.
• Add egg white mixture into butter mixture and mix well until all is well combine (with hand whisk).
• Pour batter into baking tin and bang it before bake.
• Bake cake for 50 minutes to 1 hour.  Test with knife in center to make sure it's fully baked. 
• f  you find the top colour is already quite brown before cake is fully baked, cover the top with greased paper or aluminum foil so that the top won't be burnt.