Start by soaking all dried fruits except cashews in apple juice. Add mixed raisins, dried chopped apricots, cherries, tutti frutti, candied orange peel
Pour apple juice till it covers all fruit. Here I added some golden sultanas also which I noticed in my stash
Cover and let it rest overnight. Wonderful things happen when it is left overnight to soak. The fruits soak up all the juice and plump up which will make the cake extra moist
Next day, drain off the soaking juice. See how the fruits have plumped up and how colourful they look :). Keep aside
Chop up the cashews to any texture you like. Finely chop 1 or 2 plums, keep aside
For the dry ingredients, take plain flour and whole wheat flour into a bowl, sieve these flours
Add baking powder, baking soda and salt
Add all spice, cinnamon powder and nutmeg. Mix these ingredients well and keep aside
Now let's start with wet ingredients, add sugars into another bowl, pour over apple juice and mix well till sugar starts melting and combining with the juice
Whisk in milk with the juice mixture
Next goes in melted butter. Combine well
Splash in vanilla extract and mix
Pour in yogurt and whisk well. This is the wet ingredients mixture
Tip in dry ingredients half at a time and fold into the wet mixture carefully so that no lumps are formed
Once all flours are folded in, add chopped plums and fold in
Add all the soaked fruits and fold again
Fold in chopped cashews. The batter will be quite moist
Grease a cake tin. Pre-heat oven to 180 Deg C
Carefully pour on the cake batter. Tap on the kitchen counter to release air bubbles and to smooth out the surface
Bake at 180 Deg C for 45-50 minutes or till done. I baked in middle rack of the oven till golden and done
Serve this at tea-time or for dessert
Notes
If you do not have all spice, add ½ Tsp more cinnamon powder and skip all spice powder
As mentioned, add any kind of soft dry fruits you have. We would need up to a cup
Add any kind of sugar you have brown sugar gives it a nice crust and colour
Soak in orange juice if you want instead of apple juice
For vegan cake, add oil instead of melted butter and add a vegan milk like soy milk instead of milk, add a Tbsp of vinegar instead of yogurt along with a little more apple juice or vegan milk
Recipe by Food Of Interest at https://foodofinterest.com/eggless-plum-cake/