Eggless Fresh Fruit Cake with Whipped Cream

Learn how to make a Fresh Fruit Cake with whipped cream in an easy video tutorial manner in this post. A simple, moist sponge cake layered with fresh cream and seasons fresh fruits this recipe is a must try this Summer.

How beautiful does that fresh fruit drip cake decoration look!!

Fresh Fruit Cake adorned with that glowing drip and sparkling fresh berries was not only pleasing for my eyes but amazingly palatable to my taste buds too..

A perfect birthday cake made of fruit!! Yes, it was my birthday last weekend and I choose to make this old fashioned fruit cake recipe because some flavours are always eternal.. 😀

But Why should you choose this as your birthday fruit cake recipe?

This basic fruit cake is

Soft and Spongy Eggless base – Of course you can choose a genoise sponge as a base too but once you taste it you would not believe that it is an eggless recipe.

Juicy

Moist – fruit cake made with oil, now that’s the top secret of getting a moist cake 😉

Melt in the mouth frosting

Sweet and Sour Fresh Fruits

Perfectly decorated

Easy and Simple to put together.

Some flavours are truly classic when it comes to making a birthday cake be it this real fruit cake recipe or Black Forest Cake, Pineapple Cake or Butterscotch Cake. One can never go wrong with these flavours right.

Fruit cake ingredients

This easy Fresh Fruit Cake recipe needs just few basic ingredients

1. Cake Base:

You can use your favourite Vanilla or Chocolate cake recipe as the base.  This time I have not used my favourite Eggless Vanilla Cake as the base.

Instead, I have tweaked a few things in that recipe to make an entirely different cake base.

And why so?
Because that was a really basic recipe using just oil and water. Though I were satisfied completely with that recipe I had few of our readers doubting the same because of its simplicity.

So I thought of making a few basic changes in that recipe and make an entirely new one for you guys. Have changed the quantity of water and used milk and yogurt in it. Also, have increased the amount of dry flour.

What difference did that make?
This time the cake was super moist and soft comparatively. I guess it was due to the addition of yogurt. The only thing my cake turned little brown in colour. Still trying to figure out the reason for the same. However, I am totally satisfied with the recipe.

Will I use this recipe in my future cakes?
Yes, definitely. It was totally worth it.

You can also make cake base out of premix if you desire.

2. Sugar Syrup

It’s a child’s play to make sugar syrup. Simply combine equal portions of sugar and boiling water that’s it.

A very simple yet a crucial ingredient to keep the cake moist for 2-3 days 😀

3. Whipped Cream

That cloud like melt in your mouth frosting is to just die for!!

I have followed my Stabilized Whipped Cream recipe here too. If you are a beginner I highly recommend you guys to check that post it is packed with tons of information 😀

4. Chocolate Ganache

This is totally optional. I have used a white chocolate ganache which is made of chocolate and cream just to enhance the look of the cake and colour to act as a contrast to the white cake and berries.

5. And of course fresh fruits

To make fresh fruit cake you would obviously need fresh fruits right.

Here is the list of fruits that I like to include in my Fresh Fruit Cake:
Pineapple, Apples, Grapes, All kinds of berries, Mandarins, Oranges, Kiwi, Pomegranate, Apricots, Peaches, Mango etc. depending upon the availability of fresh fruits. What you are aiming for is good sturdy fruit.

I tend to avoid soft, mushy and juicy fruits like watermelon, banana, etc in fruit cake with fresh fruit.

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I also tend to add dry fruits like cranberry or even nuts like almonds, pistachios etc which adds on to the texture.

6. Fruit cake with alcohol

I for one do not make cakes with alcohol. But if you prefer while making the Fresh Fruit Cake recipe you can choose to soak the cake with alcohol. That way you would get an after taste of alcohol which I guess some of you would love.

Generally speaking, the fruit-cakes made for Christmas is soaked in rum and hence it gets the name.

But just like how we add alcohol while making black forest cake, one can definitely combine the flavours from alcohol in a fresh cream cake too.

The only glitch is that, while making the sugar syrup you will have to boil the alcohol, sugar and water together until the sugar dissolves completely that way all the alcoholic content would be evaporated and what you would be left with is just the alcoholic flavour.

 

Let’s see  how to make Fresh Fruit Cake recipe from scratch

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Learn the Secret to keep your fruits looking fresh for hours 

It is actually pretty simple. All you need to do is apply a glaze on top for which we will use Apricot Jam.

Take 1 tbsp apricot jam and 1 tsp Water. Bring this to a boil. Apply it onto the fruits when warm

If you start applying after it is cooled down then you might leave marks on top of the fruit so it is advisable to apply the glaze when it is still warm.

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How to Store this best fruit cake? 

Since we have made use of fresh cream in this recipe, definitely store this in the refrigerator only.

This stays good and moist for 3 days in the fridge 🙂

Fruit cake price

Apart from the list of fruits that can be used in baking fruit cake, I believe there is one more question that is most searched for or asked for which is Fresh Fruit Cake price. 

Usually, I do not talk about pricing of the cake in a post like this fruit cream cake. But I would like to take a moment here and discuss in brief or just touch this topic on pricing this delicious fruit cake.

You have to take in to account the price of the fruit as per the season. Like, consider adding those fruits that are easily available whenever you are making this.

You may think that’s common sense what so special about it?

Well, what I wanted to convey is while pricing a cake made of fruit you have to consider the WASTAGE. For eg, if we take into consideration Grapes, for making this 6 inches Fresh Fruit Cake I have made use of a total of just 8 grapes.

However, when you go to purchase the fruits the seller won’t give you just a handful of each fruit which means you would end up buying more fruits than what is actually required to make the cake.

So it absolutely makes sense to add some Wastage charges onto the cake about which you can inform the client beforehand just to be clear with them.

And do not miss to watch the Fresh Fruit Cake recipe video for a clear and detailed understanding.

Consider checking this post on How to write on Cakes if you are a home baker or making a birthday cake for a near and dear one.

Anyways,

Wishing myself a very Happy Birthday with this beautiful and classy looking very best fruit cake!!! hehe.. I know so cheesy but still, it is my birthday so let’s make some noise in the comments below.. 

Do share your thoughts with me on this cake with fresh fruit inside and outside. Would love to hear your thoughts on the same.

If you happen to recreate this cake or liked any of the idea mentioned in this easy moist fruit cake post then let me know by sending a message on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram.

And yeah do not forget to Pin this onto your Cakes board in Pinterest.

I will see you soon with yet another recipe.

Until then

Hugs
Sushma.