Egg-Less Fresh Fruit Cake

A exemplary birthday cake for making the birthday special and memorable!!

I have make an attempt of Fresh Fruit Cake on my husband's birthday ,which taste so moreish that it didn't even lasted for 10 minutes in plate. This made me to share this recipe with you all.The Fresh Fruit Cake is a soft sponge cake, garnished with thin and small slices of fresh fruits. I used colored seasonal fruits like blueberries,strawberries, Kiwi, black red and green grapes,apples and mangoes.The Fresh Fruit Cake is very light with appropriate sugar content. A great cake for almost any occasion.

Egg-Free Fresh Fruit Cake Ingredients

Cake Base:

• 1 1/2 cups all purpose flour
• 1/2 tsp baking soda
• 1.5 tsp baking powder
• a pinch of salt
• 1/2 cup yogurt
• 1/2 cup milk
• 1/2 cup oil
• 1/2 tsp mixed fruit essence(if  not have mixed fruit essence use individual essence drops)
• 1 cup sugar
• seasonal fruits-mangoes,kiwi,blueberries, strawberries,black and green grapes,pineapple, apple,pomegranate

Sugar Syrup:

4 tbsp sugar + 4 tbsp hot water

Cream Filling:

• Whipping cream-200 grams
• icing sugar-40 grams
• 1/2 tsp mixed fruit essence

Chocolate Ganache for decoration:

• 20 grams Cream
• 40 grams finely chopped white chocolate
• 2-3 drops of yellow food color(Wilton color)

Chocolate ganache reciepe- Take the cream into the heating pan and add color of your choice until cream start boiling and then put this cream on top of the white chocolate and allow it rest for 5 mins and then check its consistency (if required put it in refrigerator for sometime)

Cooking time:2:30 hours

Instructions:

1.Pre-heat the Oven to 180C and line a baking pan with parchment paper

2.Mix all the dry ingredients in one bowl i.e All purpose flour,baking powder, baking soda,salt ,sugar and keep it aside

3.Take all the wet ingredients in separate bowl i.e take milk in a bowl and add oil,yogurt,essence and mix all together.

4.Add all purpose flour mixture into second bowl gradually and mix well (using cut and fold method) without any lumps.
5.Transfer the cake batter into the baking pan and smooth the top with a spatula.

6.Bake 40-50 minutes until the center springs back when pressed gently.

7.Remove from oven and invert cake onto a wire rack and allow it to cool down.

8.Then cut the cake into two equal pieces and apply the sugar syrup(at room temperature) on both the pieces.

9.Now Whip the Cream , Sugar and essence until stiff peaks form and cream is ready to use.

10.Cut all the seasonal fruits into smaller pieces

11.At last assemble the Cake,Layer the one piece of cake(covered with sugar syrup) on to a cake board and trim off the top to even the cake.

12. Then add half of the cream and spread it evenly on the cake and top it with some fruits of your choice

13. Then place the other cake layer on top and repeat same steps and put it in refrigerator for 20 minutes.

14. After that frost the cake completely with cream frosting until you get a smooth finish.

15. Then prepare the chocolate ganache and decorate the cake with it i.e start dripping over the sides of the cake(use paper cone for that) 

16. Then finally decorate it with fruits and give it a final touch.

Happy baking :)