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    Christmas 2025 Recipe: Prepare The Signature Plum Cake With These Easy Steps

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    (Recipe By Chef Seema Mondal)

    Christmas plum cake carries a history far richer than its ingredients suggest. Rooted in European festive traditions and adapted over decades across India’s coastal kitchens, the cake has become a symbol of patience, togetherness, and seasonal abundance. 

    The signature plum cake follows its traditional philosophy closely. The process begins weeks in advance, with dried fruits, nuts, spices, juices, and spirits coming together to mature slowly. This resting period allows flavours to deepen and mellow, creating complexity without excess sweetness. The ceremony itself is participatory by nature, an inclusive moment where hands come together to mix, fold, and prepare the base that will later transform into the finished cake. It is less about spectacle and more about continuity, echoing how Christmas baking has been passed down through generations.

    What sets this recipe apart is its restraint. There is no artificial colouring, no rush to bake, and no overpowering dominance of alcohol. Instead, freshly ground spices such as cinnamon, nutmeg, and cardamom bring warmth and aroma, while a carefully balanced soaking mix ensures moisture and depth. Local influences quietly shape the final result, cashews, regional spices, and sourcing choices that reflect Goa’s culinary landscape without straying from the classic structure of a plum cake.

    Once baked at a gentle temperature, the cake emerges dark, moist, and fragrant, with flavours that continue to develop even after it leaves the oven. It is traditionally brushed lightly with milk or water, rested, and served in measured slices, meant to be shared rather than rushed.

    This plum cake is less a dessert and more a seasonal marker. It represents time taken, care applied, and the collective spirit that defines festive cooking. In a season often defined by abundance, it quietly. 

    Seema Mondal is the Senior Chef de Partie at Deltin Royale, Goa

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