Eggless Dry Fruits Cake

After a long time I was craving for this dry fruits cake, as christmas is around, so more reasons for the craving. But I had no patience to soak the dry fruits, so cooked up in my head which would go closer to this christmas cake..once the cake was baked the kitchen was smelling dry fruits and cake...hhhmm tempting. I had tried quite a few recipes for this instant christmas cake without need to soak, but after many tries this recipe gave me the satisfaction of having instant christmas cake..even if you dont have all the nuts and fruits at home, you can make do with the available dry fruits at home and enjoy.

Ingredients:
Dry Ingredients:
Maida/All Purpose Flour - 1 cup,
Corn Flour - 2 tablespoon,
All spice Powder - 1/2 teaspoon(clove, cinnamon, nutmeg and cardamom powder mix),
Baking Soda - 1/2 teaspoon,
Baking Powder - 1 teaspoon.

Wet Ingredients:
Condensed Milk - 3/4 cup/tin/300 grams,
Butter - 125 grams melted,
Vanilla extract - 1/2 teaspoon,
Fresh Orange juice - 2 tablespoons.
Dry Fruits - 1/2 cup.(I had store bought dry fruit mix which had papaya, raisins pistachio cherry, almonds, cashew and others),

Method:
Pre heat the oven at 180 degree celsius.
Grease an 8 inch cake pan.
Put the parchment/butter  paper at the bottom of the cake tin.
Sieve all the dry ingredients together couple of times, to ensure no lumps.
Cream butter and condensed milk.
Add vanilla and Orange juice.
Blend Together.
I would suggest to use freshly squeezed orange juice, rather than store bought orange juice for the fresh and citrusy, bitter taste.
Fold the sieved flour slowly as to not air out the batter.
Once you fold the flour and just before you put it to bake fold the dry fruits slowly and carefully.
Do take care not to over mix the batter.
Slowly transfer into the baking tin and bake it for 25-30 minutes or until a tooth pick comes out clean when inserted.
Remove from oven and cool it on a wire rack and serve with coffee or tea.

Note:
Cooking time varies according to your oven, so keep an eye after 20 minutes of baking, remove when the inserted tooth pick comes out clean.