Chrismas to a Kolkata resident is a time for fruitcake, lights and live bands on Park Street, and the Christmas Eve mass at St. Paul’s Cathedral, say Insiya Poonawala and Saptarshi Chakraborty, founders of Indian food blog Bong Eats. While we might not be able to get the full experience, this Kolkata Christmas fruitcake, they guarantee, tastes equally festive and delicious.
Founders of Bong Eats, a popular Indian food blog
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"First, we’ve added spices to both the dried fruit mixture as well as to the cake batter. But the most significant addition we’ve made is adding thick, syrupy ‘burnt sugar’. It is an old-fashioned Anglo-Indian technique, widely popular in Caribbean cooking too, to add a deep flavour, mild bitterness, and colour to cakes and meats," the blogger couple explain.