Christmas Dessert

No Christmas celebration is complete without a hearty dessert. A cake makes an excellent dessert option to be relished with family. Having a cake on Christmas is a part of the British tradition. So to get into festive spirits by baking a special cake for the family.

I'm presenting a Pineapple Cake recipe to bake for Christmas dessert with freshly cooked pineapple sauce.

Christmas Cake - 1

My cake is refreshing with soft bread and Pineapple sauce.  This cake has rich, velvety texture full of flavour and moist, it can be eaten plain. Cake can be baked on the very day and there is no need to pre-soak ingredients a night before. But you can bake it a day before.

And, it is perfect Christmas treat for your family and friends.

Christmas Cake

Author: Kanchan Vaish Singh Preparation Time: 1 hour (approx.)

Serving: 6 to 8 Cooking Time: 1 hour 30 minutes (approx.)

Ingredients

• Plain White Flour 160 gm

• Corn Flour/corn-starch 25 gm

• Eggs 4

• Sugar 180 gm

• Oil 40 gm

• Vanilla Extract 1 tbsp

• Baking Powder 1 tsp

• Water 50 gm

Ingredients for Icing and Pineapple sauce

• Whipping Cream 600 ml

• Icing Sugar 4 to 5 tbsp

• Vanilla Extract 2 tsp

• Canned Pineapple 2 cans

• Cornflour 2 tsp

• Water 1 cup

• Sugar 2 to 3 tbsp

• Fresh Raspberries 1or 25 gm or 15

Method

1. In a large bowl beat 4 eggs for around 5 minutes. At the same time, keep adding sugar while beating eggs with an electric hand mixer.

2. Add vanilla essence to the bowl and whisk the eggs for another 2 - 3 minutes.

3. In a separate bowl, add plain flour, corn starch, and baking powder. Mix all dry ingredients well and add to the egg mixture.

4. Now add oil and water to the egg mixture.

5. Mix all well but slowly in one direction only.

6. In a baking bowl, spread oil all around and then put all the mixture into a baking bowl and bake it at 165 degrees Celsius for about 40 to 45 minutes.

7. Check with the thin wooden stick, if it comes out clean from baked cake then it is done. Take it out and keep it aside while covering it.

For the cream, add whipping cream to a bowl and start beating it while gradually adding icing sugar into the cream. Add vanilla extract into the cream and beat it until stiff peaks form.

For the pineapple sauce,

1. Take a deep pan and add 4 to 5 tbsp of chopped canned pineapple chunks in it with water and sugar. Cook it for 15 to 20 minutes on medium flame.

2. Add corn-starch in the above and cook for another 5 minutes or until it gets thick consistency.

3. Sieve the sauce into another bowl and keep it in the fridge for at least 30 minutes.

For decoration

1. Cut the cake into two halves (horizontally) and pour the canned pineapple juice, pineapple sauce, and some pineapple chunks on top of on half cut cake.

2. Now add whipping cream to the cake.

3. The same applies to the other half of the cake. Put together both halves of the cake. Apply the cream all over the cake.

4. Decorate it with cream and put some raspberries onto the cake.

5. Put the cake into the fridge and serve it cold.

Notes

1. Use always very chilled whipping cream while whipping.

2. Sweetness can be adjusted as per your taste.

3. Eggs should be at room temperature.

4. The cake can be decorated in any way you like.

Thank you and have a lovely Christmas.