Jenifer Grace Ingredients
- 50 ml rum / orange juice
- 200 ml non-sweetened orange juice
- 65 g butter
- 3 large eggs
- 190 g all-purpose flour (maida)
- 10g of dark cocoa powder
- 5 g baking soda
- 10 ml vanilla essence
- 200 g brown sugar
- 300 g of fruits
- 50 g candied orange zest
- 40 g candied ginger chopped
- 30 g black currant
- 30 g dried apricot chopped
- 50 g dried cranberry
- 50 g dried blueberry
- 50g golden raisin
- 150 g nuts:
- 50 g roasted almond chopped
- 50 g toasted cashew nut chopped
- 50 g walnut
Spices - 1/2 tsp scraped nutmeg
- 1/2 tsp crushed cloves
- 1tsp cinnamon powder
- 1tsp ginger powder
- 3/4 tsp salt
Glaze (this can be skipped if it’s a non-alcoholic cake) - 50 ml rum
- 40 ml butter melted.
- Keep the large saucepan on stove, pour in the orange juice, butter and brown sugar. Drop in all the fruits. Bring to a boil and simmer for 10 minutes.
- Pour in 50 ml rum and vanilla essence and keep aside for 1hr to 24 hours. (If you are using orange juice instead of rum, you can skip the soaking)
- Preheat your oven to 160 C
- Grease your large loaf pan and place the parchment, and grease again with melted butter.
- In a large mixing pan, add the eggs and whisk into soft foam.
- Pour in the fruits mixture.
- Add the dry ingredients, all purpose or maida flour, cocoa powder and baking soda, mix until combined.
- Pour into the loaf pan and bake for 70 minutes or till skewer comes out clean when inserted in the middle of the loaf.
- Rest for 10 minutes and remove from the pan.
- Whisk the rum and salted butter together for a generous slather over the loaf.
Optional but recommend, if using Rum.
– After the loaf completely cools, brush the loaf with rum and wrap it in the foil. Rest for 2 hours and repeat again for the extra booze, moisture and this helps the cake stay for 6-8 weeks in refrigerator.
– Wrap it in cling film and serve after 12 hours or a week.
The aged, the better.
*The rum in this recipe can be substituted with orange juice. Cakes with orange juice cannot be kept for more than a week under refrigeration.
