Ingredients
1. Refined flour (1/2kg)
2. baking powder (4tsp)
3. vanilla essence (4tsp)
4. butter (1/2kg)
5. egg (1kg)
6. cherries (175gms)
7. chopped dates (250gms)
8. chopped cashew nuts (175gms)
9. grapes with seeds (200gms)
10. powdered sugar (1kg)
11. brandy (optional)

Method of preparation:-
1. Take grapes, dates and cherries, slice them into very small pieces. Soak and keep the slices in brandy one week before preparaing the cake.

2. Take a pan, place it over heat and then put 1/2kg of sugar in it. Add a little water and keep it stirring on low heat to avoid burning. Take off the pan from the heat when the sugar turns brown.

3. Take the remaining powdered sugar in a bowl and mix butter in it. Keep it aside. Take a large bowl, sieve flour and baking powder together in it. Add the soaked fruits in brandy and the chopped cashew nuts in it. Mix them well.

4. Now beat egg white and egg yolk in a bowl and then mix it to the sugar-butter mixture and then mix it well. Now add the vanilla essence in it.

5. Take a greased and floured vessel, pour this mixture and then the fruit mixture evenly. Repeat it alternately.

6. Place the vessel in preheated oven and bake it for 40 minutes at 3500C and then take it out. Keep it to cool and then take out the cake on a plate. Now the fruit cake is ready to serve.