Christmas cake in pressure cooker

 Christmas Plum cake in Pressure Cooker Without Rum .If you have a pressure cooker you can make this in it within 1 1/2 hours without soaking .You can also make it in oven.

 All purpose flour - 1cup {128 g}

Mixed fruits - ¼ cup  

Eggs - 2

Cinnamon powder - ¼ tsp

Nutmeg powder - ¼ tsp  

Baking powder- ¾ tsp

Oil  or melted  butter - 4 tbsp 

Vanilla essence - ¼ tsp 

Salt - ¼ tsp 

For caramelizing

Sugar - ¾ cup + 2 tbsp

Water - 7 tbsp

Salt - 1 cup (for layering the pressure cooker)

Steps:

To caramelize the sugar, heat a heavy bottomed pan and add sugar.

Wait for the sugar to melt on low heat and turn golden. Keep stirring.

Add water.

Transfer it to a bowl and let it cool.

Add a spoonful of  flour (from the 1 cup flour) to the fruits and mix well. This is done to ensure the even distribution of fruits  in the cake. Otherwise, they will sink to the bottom of the cake. 

Crack in eggs to a wide bowl. Add cinnamon powder, nutmeg powder and salt, and mix well.

Sieve flour and baking powder to the egg mixture.

Add oil and vanilla essence. Mix well.

Add cooled caramelized sugar and mix well without lumps.

Add fruits mixed with flour and mix well.

Line the bottom and sides of cake pan with butter paper and grease with oil. 

Transfer the cake mixture to the pan. Gently tap the pan to remove air bubbles in the cake mixture.

To bake the cake, add a thick layer of salt to the pressure cooker. You can reuse this same salt for 2-3 times. 

Place an inverted steel plate as a base on the salt. 

Cover without the whistle and heat up the salt on high heat for 7 minutes. 

Place the baking pan on to the base and cook covered on high flame for a minute and then switch to medium flame (medium-low for big burner).

Bake for 55 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Open the cooker and check if the cake is cooked after 30 minutes.Or you can bake in the oven at  375 degrees for 50 minutes.