Fruit Cake

The best cake i baked so far !!

Ingredients:

• All purpose flour / Maida -  one n half cup 
• Unsalted butter - half a cup / 150 gms
• Baking powder - 1 tsp
• Eggs - 3
• Sugar - 1 cup
• Vanilla essence - 1 tsp
• Pineapple essence - half tsp
• Milk - quarter cup
• Salt - a generous pinch
• Tutti fruti, cherry, black raisins and cashew nuts

Method:

1. In a large bowl, add butter and beat it with a hand mixer until its creamy. Now add sugar and beat it until its light and fluffy ( 3- 4 mins). Add eggs one by one and beat well at each addition.
2. Now add vanilla and pineapple essence and mix well.
3. In a separate bowl sieve the flour and baking powder and mix well until the baking powder is nicely combined with the flour. Also add salt.
4. Now add half of the flour to the egg mixture and beat it with the hand mixture for 2 mins, now add milk and beat again, add rest of the flour and beat again (keep beating  :P )
5. Add tutti frutti, cherry (chopped), black raisins and crushed cashew nuts and fold it in the above mixture using a spatula, do not over mix it.
6. Grease the loaf pan with butter and dust it with little flour, remove the excess flour and pour the cake mixture in to it .
7. Bake this in a pre heated oven of 180 deg Celsius for an hour (depends upon the oven you are using) 
8. Do a toothpick test, if the toothpick comes out clean then the cake is ready, if not bake it for another 5 - 10 minutes.