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How to make caramel for Fruit cake/ Christmas Cake

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For making perfect caramel all you need is patience. So keep calm and start with Joy :D Ingredients:   Sugar- 1 cup for 1/2 cup caramel   Water as required Video of step by step pictures:   Method:   1. Take sugar in a heavy bottom wok. Switch on the stove and maintain a medium flame throughout the cooking process if you are doing this for the first time. Start on high when you are confident enough. 2.Use a metal spoon and stir the sugar once in a while. 3.The sugar will slowly start to melt and form crystals as you stir, don give up just stir slowly. 4.More crystals will start to form, At this point stir the sugar only occasionally. 5.Push crystals to the center where the melting process happens faster. This will avoid caramelization only at the center.   6.Now almost all crystals will start to melt and the caramel will begin to get its crimson color. Keep stirring slowly  ,til all the crystals blend in with th...