Recipe Baked, Photographed and Written by Praveena
During the December holiday season, I truly wanted to bake a healthy fruit cake for my cuties. As we are vegetarians, I wanted a recipe without any egg in it. And we are teetotal (non-alcoholic) as well.
I had explored various recipes across the web. Most of them had eggs or alcohol or both 🙁 Moreover most of the recipes that I saw needed soaking of fruits which I wished to avoid and give a try.
Hence, with all these in mind I came up with an eggless, whole wheat flour, butter free cake that has the raw brown sugar and is highly filled with dry fruits and nuts. I used ripen bananas instead of eggs.
The dry fruits that I used in the cake are apricots, green raisins, sultanas, mixed raisins and prunes. Nuts I added are almonds, cashews, pistachios, walnuts. To give up more protein boost I felt why not some seeds into the cake . Hence, added sunflower seeds too… 🙂
At last here comes my cake ..I do not know if my version is called a plum cake or not. But its a real healthy cake for sure and delicious too!!!
Update: Last sunday, I made a cake with the same recipe but I used normal Chapati/Atta flour. Cake came out as perfect as its in the pic below.
Before starting to cook, don’t forget to see the Tips mentioned at the end.
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Ingredients:
- Bananas (ripe) – 6 medium size
- Oil – ½ cup
- Baking powder – 1 teaspoon
- Baking soda – 1 teaspoon
- Dry fruits – ½ cup
- Nuts – ½ cup
- Seeds – 1 tablespoon
- Whole Wheat flour – 1½ cups
- Brown sugar – 1 cup
- Vanilla Essence – 1 teaspoon
Special Ingredients:
- Whole wheat flour
- Brown sugar
Step wise pics Procedure for ‘Eggless healthy dry fruits cake’:
- Peel the bananas and in a large mixing bowl mash them up into paste.
6 ripen bananas. Ripen Banana mash. - Next , add the oil , vanilla essence and brown sugar to it.
- In the same bowl sieve in the whole wheat flour, baking powder and baking soda .
- Now, gently fold everything with a spatula until dry and wet ingredients blend well.
Chopped Dry Fruits and Nuts along with seeds. - Add the half of the chopped nuts , half of the dry fruits and a few seeds.
- Save the remaining nuts, dry fruits and seeds for topping & decoration.
- Again, give a gentle mix .
Dry fruits, nuts,seeds added to cake mix. - Line in the cake tin or loaf tin with parchment paper after applying the tin with a few drops of oil.
- Fill half of the cake mix in the tin.
- Top up with around half of remaining dry fruits, nuts and seeds on the cake mix.
- Empty the rest of the cake mix on to the cake tin.
- Then, top up this layer with remaining nuts and dry fruits.
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Cake mix into the tin with toppings. - Preheat the oven at 180°C.
- Place the cake tin in the pre-heated oven.
- Bake it for about 40 to 45 minutes. Done!!
To make cupcakes:
- You can use the same cake batter / mix to make cup cakes.
- Layer the cupcake moulds with cupcake papers.
- Just pour the batter up to half of the level of the cupcake moulds.
- Place the cupcake tin in the pre-heated oven. Bake for 20-22 mins.
- Continue Baking until a toothpick inserted comes out clean.
- Then, take the tin off the oven and let it cool on a cooling rack. Done!!
Tips:
- The flour which I used is Whole Wheat flour which is used for making breads.
- Update: Last Sunday, I made a cake with the same recipe but I used normal Chapati/Atta flour. Cake came out as perfect as its in the pics above.
- Do not over mix the flour and other ingredients.
- Using brown sugar and whole wheat flour brings the perfect brown colour to the cake.
- You can add any oil like vegetable oil or sunflower oil. I have used sunflower oil.
- Select the dry fruits and nuts and seeds of your choice.
Result:
- The colour of the cake is dusky and had rough texture to look.
- It is very soft from inside, nutty and crunchy in texture.
- The cake was all fruity and nutty to look at.
- As I added loads of dry fruits, nuts and seeds in every layer of the batter, every bite of the cake had the nutty taste as well as fruity flavour.
- It’s certainly packed with all necessary ingredients for health benefits.
Final Output! Eggless Healthy Dry Fruits & Nuts Cake !!
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Very nice
Thank you! 🙂
Tasty recipe
Thank you so much! 🙂 Do try it and let us know how its turned out!
Looks super yum, want to know what variety of banana is used
Thanks a lot, Surabhi! 🙂 Just now, I did attach the pic of the bananas I have used for this cake. Have a look. Hope that helps. Do let me know how it turned out when u have tried.
Does this cake keep well and for how long pls ?
Thank you for your interest! 🙂 I made it on sunday, sliced and kept in cake tin at room temp, at a cold place. Was Fine upto 3 days. Hope this helps.
Can I prepare in microwave?
Yes, you can make in convection mode
Is it possible to substitute whole wheat flour with almond flour?
I suppose you can. But, sorry I cant confirm, as I did not try.
Would this come out food with almond flour too?
I cannot confirm, as I didn’t try!
Praveena I tried this receipe and my cake came out very well. it tastes good too. and I can confidently serve it all my family as it is healthy
Hey! 🙂 that’s so nice of you to let me know. Thank you so much, Akka! Happy to see your message!! 🙂
Can I replace sugar with dates paste or honey?if yes please let me know the quality
Hi Shilpa, Yes, you replace the sugar with dates paste. I would suggest same quantity as that of sugar that I have used. Hope this helps! 🙂
Hi mam, please send the link to purchase brown sugar
Hi there, Sorry for late reply! The sugar I use is UNREFINED CANE SUGAR, brand EAST END! I generally purchase from Indian store. You can try it on Amazon too. Hope this helps.
Can i use coconut oil instead of refined oils?
Hi Sruthi! Yes you can use. Let me know how it turned out too! 🙂
I tried this recipe and my cake came out very well. The way we use dry fruits in this cake make the cake more delicious
I tried this recipe and my cake came out very well. The way we use dry fruits in this cake make the cake more delicious
Hi George, Thank you so much for your excellent feedback! 😄 Nice of you for letting me know!!