Festivities without cakes; incomplete

Sheetal atkade . Byline Bhopal

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With Christmas just round the corner, the city seems soaked in festive spirit and one cannot avoid thinking of delicious cakes as celebrations are incomplete without the traditional Christmas cakes.

All the bakeries are coming up with a wide range of cakes, from sliced pieces to customised ones for the customers. Almost every bakery across the city is busy planning to bake the best. Among all flavours, the traditional plum cake is the hot favourite of the customers. These cakes are made using dried fruits, nuts, butter and sugar. Nuts and dried fruits are soaked in spirits such as rum and then added to the cake batter which results in yummy plum cake.

Chef Avni Patni : Things have changed over the years and although it improves the taste it is now acceptable and very possible to bake a Christmas cake and eat it straight away. Our recipe is specially developed to do just that and is still very moist and flavourful. Along with that not everyone likes fruitcake, so a layered sponge or Christmas cookies like coconut macroon cookies, french almond macron and red velvet crinkle cookies are other great alternatives to add to the festive cheer.

Further she said “ A quick scroll though #christmascakes on Instagram revealed that these cakes have taken on a new and more colourful form, with snowmen, reindeer chocolate cakes, mini-Christmas trees and even Christmas cakesicles (a cake in the form of a popsicle) all being popular.

Chef Priety Maheshwari : Nowadays, people have busy lives and want to do quick and easy baking, so home-made Christmas fruitcakes are not the way to go unless you have a grandma at home who has the time to make it. I would suggest that instead of buying, people get back into the kitchen and start baking again. We have such a rich food history and all of us have memories of the holidays and baked goods from our moms and grannies. Dig out those special recipes and get baking. It is fun for the whole family, the kids can get involved and there is nothing quite like the feeling of putting out your own home-made cakes and cookies.

The different types of cake include eggless plum cake, rich plum cake, plum pudding, plum muffins, plum cake with Christmas decor, white forest cake, carrot,raisin walnut cake and almonds and butter icing.The other flavours include Pineapple, Chocolate, Butterscotch, Black Forest, Vanilla, Mango, Pista, Almond, Fruit n Nut, Red Velvet and Dark Chocolate. “All the cakes are prepared by professional chefs using different pastries,” She says.

Special Christmas cakes

• Egg less plum cake

• Rich plum cake

• Plum pudding

• Plum muffins

• Plum cake with Christmas decor

• Cakes with almond icing

• Cakes with butter icing

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