Eggless Christmas Fruit Cake

Christmas is nearing and hope many will be busy in shopping,preparing gifts and wrapping them.We  are getting ready with our xmas dinner list and my dinner table is going to be filled with variety of wonderful foods as like last year. Kids are waiting eagerly for the xmas vacation,still three more days to go,even am waiting eagerly to bake some more christmas cookies and cakes with my kids.As i told earlier,my theme for this week's blogging marathon is christmas special, needless to say that my third post is going to be a christmas fruit cake without eggs.

Two days back, i tried this eggless christmas fruit cake from Sharmi's Passions, this cake goes for mashed potatoes and its completely alcohol free. If you want to give a try to eggless fruit cake,this cake is for you. Actually christmas fruit cake always goes for atleast 4-5eggs,but you wont miss eggs in this cake. This cake is very much rich in fruits and nuts, they doesnt need pre-soaking. You can make them quickly,easily and am sure that this cake will definitely satisfy your cravings for rich fruit cakes.I just made few changes according to my family's tastebuds and increased the quantity of dry fruits in this cake. Check out the other bloggers running this 23rd edition of blogging marathon here.Sending this fantastic eggless fruit cake to Tried & Tasted-Sharmi's Passions hosted by me,event by Lakshmi.Do check Champa, Srivalli, Sumana Deepak,Veena,Jayasri and Preeti Deo wat they baked for the 9th day of bake-a-thon.

2cups All purpose flour
1cup Butter
1cup Packed brown sugar
1tsp Baking powder
1tsp Baking soda + 1/2tsp for cooking fruits
1/2tsp Cinnamon powder
1/4tsp Clove powder
1/4tsp Ginger powder
1/4tsp Nutmeg powder
2tbsp Honey
1cup Yogurt
1tsp Vanilla essence
1cup Mashed potato
1/2cup Water
1cup Dry fruits (chopped finely,i used dates,black & golden raisins,apricots,tutti frutti)
1/2cup Nuts (chopped finely)
2tbsp Orange zest

Grease a round cake pan with enough butter and line a baking sheet.

Sieve the flour with baking powder and baking soda and keep aside.

In a pan, heat the dry fruits,sugar,butter,honey,water in low flame until the sugar gets dissolves, then put the flame in high and bring it to boil.

Put the flame again in low and cook for half an hour,so that the dry fruits will gets well cooked, put off the stove and add the 1/2tsp of baking soda,mix it and keep it aside.

Preheat the oven to 350F.

In a bowl, take together the yogurt,vanilla essence and spice powders and mix, now add the cooked fruit mixture,mashed potato,orange zest and nuts,mix everything well.

Add the flour to this mixture and mix gently with a spatula.

Transfer this cake batter to the already prepared cake pan, place gently few cashew nuts on the top and bake cake for an hour or until a skewer inserted comes out clean.

Notes:
As per original recipe, the batter will be thick,but i prepared mine not much thick as i dont want my kids to notice the dry fruits chunks in the cake.

If you want to make the batter thick,just reduce the quantity of yogurt as half cup.

Chop the nuts and dry fruits too small so that they will blend well with the cake.

Dont cut the cake while its hot or warm, they will get crumble.

Let the cake cools for atleast 5 hours or else even overnite before slicing.