Ingredients:

• Maida/All-Purpose Flour – 2 cups
• Castor sugar – 1 ¼ Cup
• Butter – 1 cup
• Eggs – 5
• Baking Powder –  2 tsp
• Vanilla Essence – 1 tsp
• Dry fruits Mix (Almonds, Cashews, Raisins, Walnuts, Pistachio)s – ½ Cup
• Tutti Frutti – ½ Cup
• Milk – ¼ Cup
• Spice powder – 1 tsp

Method:

• Keep all ingredients ready with the above mentioned measurements before you start preparing the cake.
• If you do not have castor sugar, run the sugar in a food processor or mixer for a few seconds to make superfine sugar, (make sure not to powder it) then measure. Here you will need 1 ¼ cup. You can also use 1 ¼ cup of granulated sugar instead of castor sugar.
• Sieve Maida/All-Purpose Flour, baking powder, Spice powder thrice so that all are thoroughly mixed. Mix in the dry fruits and tutti frutti.
• Soften the butter before beating. Do not melt.
• Eggs should be at room temperature. If refrigerated, keep them out for about an hour before baking.
• Grease the bread tin with butter and dust with Maida/All-Purpose Flour, so that the cake comes off easily once baked. You can also use cooking spray.
• Place the bread tin on the parchment paper, trace it and cut it out, then place it on the bottom of the bread tin.
• Preheat the oven at 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
• Beat butter and sugar in a bowl till light and fluffy. Make sure to beat in one direction.
• Separate the egg whites and yolks.
• Beat the egg whites with a hand-mixer until stiff peaks are formed.
• Beat well the egg yolks with vanilla essence.
• Add the beaten egg yolk to the butter-sugar and mix well. Do not allow the mixture to curdle. To this, slowly fold in the beaten egg whites with a rubber spatula.
• Instead of separating the egg whites and yolks and then beating them, you can add the whole eggs one by one, beating them well each time.
• Add 1/2 of the sieved flour to the butter-sugar-egg mixture and fold in. Add some milk and fold slowly. Now repeat the same with the remaining flour and milk.
• Pour this mixture into the bread tin and bake for about 1 ½ hours. Time may vary for each oven.
• Add cherries and tutti frutti on the top.
• Check after 1 hour. If it is browning too much, place aluminum foil on the top and cook for the remaining minutes.
• Check if the cake is baked with a tooth pick. The cake is done if it comes out clean.
• Remove from oven and place it on a wire rack and allow it to cool.