Spiced Fruit Cakelets

Jakarta is unusual pretty cold!
It rains almost everyday.
I'm not kind of person who likes to complain about weather.
I always try to enjoy whatever the weather is...
But unfortunately for many times I have to cancel my plan to exercise; walking or jogging. Really disappointing, when you're so ready with complete attire and suddenly we have to cancel it.
...so let me spend more time for blogging then.



Last weekend, I had a chance to visit Situ Lembang lake, near Bandung in West Java. It's about 3 hours journey from our home in South Jakarta. I didn't know this place before, not even have heard about it. Until last week, my husband asked me to accompany him for an event in that area. After listening to his promotion about this area; the lake, the beautiful pine forest, the cold weather (bonus : clean air), and the activity (hiking! I love this one)... I'm so happy to accompany him.



Arriving to this 'not open for public' area, my body was a bit shock with the weather.
Fog, rain, and wind were welcoming us. It was very-very cold, especially when the wind was blowing hardly.
Located 1.567m ASL, between two famous mountain, Mount Tangkuban Parahu and Mount Burangrang, this 'military area' is in naturally well maintained.



Well, I hope from the pictures above you can feel and imagine the place that I visited last weekend.
More picture you can see here.

Now, continuing my story about food, this time I'll share about a little fruit cake that I baked last month.
The idea for choosing the recipe was still the same with those previous recipes; fruits and spices on the ingredient list.





And ...the warm spices; cinnamon and nutmeg, that's combined with raisins, dry cranberries, cashew and touched with the strong aroma of Myers's rum, really made our afternoon so beautiful and full of joy.
I took the pictures while the little hands couldn't wait to grab the cakes.

My daughter and I tried hard to remember about the other dessert that we tried sometime in the past that has similar flavor with this cakelets. Unfortunately, until the little cakes were finished, I had no clue about it.

Baking this little cake make me believe that even the easy and simple recipe can produce homemade delicious food for family. This pretty little cakes blow the festive aroma hardly in our home.

Spiced Fruit Cakelets
source : Appetite Magazine, November 2010
Ingredients:
120 gr flour
1/4 tsp cinnamon
1/4 tsp nutmeg
1/2 tsp baking soda
A pinch of salt
120 gr butter
60 gr dark brown sugar
1 large egg
50 ml dark rum
2 tbsp milk
1 tsp vanilla
3 tbsp dark corn syrup
80 gr mixed fruit
30 gr candied lemon peel (I skipped)
30 gr almond, coarsely chopped (I used chopped cashew)
Icing sugar for dusting






Method :
1. Combine flour, spices, baking soda and salt in a bowl and mix. Set aside.
2. Place butter and sugar in another bowl and cream until light and fluffy.
3. Mix egg, rum, milk, vanilla and dark syrup until smooth.
4. Add flour mixture and combine well, then add the mixed fruit, lemon and almonds.
5. Spoon teaspoonful of cake mixture and place in mini muffin pan. Bake for 10 minutes at 175 C.
6. Dust over with icing sugar and serve.

Have a nice weekend.