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My Last Post of 2013

Ok my lovely readers...... This is my last post of 2013..... Before this year ends, I am posting the cake I had baked for Christmas..... For a change, I have baked Omana Paul's Kerala Plum Cake this year. And I got the recipe from Nagalakshmi's  Edible Garden ... However, I made a few changes here and there. For instance, the original recipe doesn't require soaking fruits in alcohol, but I used soaked fruits (from last year's)...... Also, the cake is alcohol free. However, I like my Christmas cake to be alcohol-rich, so drenched my cake in brandy after it was baked. Ingredients: Recipe Adapted from: Edible Garden Plain flour - 1 cup Soaked fruits and nuts - 1 cup Sugar - 1 cup and 1/2 cup Butter - 2/3 cup Eggs -3 Nutmeg, powdered - 1/4 tsp Cinnamon, powdered - 1/4 tsp Cloves, powdered - 1/4 tsp Cardamom, powdered - 1/4 tsp Baking powder - 1 tsp Vanilla extract - 1 tsp Salt - a pinch Method: First and foremost, caramelize the sugar. I...