Date & Walnut Cake

Name: Date & Walnut Cake
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 40 min
Total time: 50 min
Yield: 8
Ingredients: -2 cups pitted dates or date paste; -1 cup holt milk; -3/4 cup room temperature milk; -3/4 cup oil (vegetable or olive); -2 cups flour; -3 tbsp baking powder; -Handful walnuts

by Nour Kay

8 Slices

50 min

It's almost summer and there is always a reason to celebrate and get together with friends and family. And every occasion involves food, and that's the part I look forward to.

There is always dessert on the table, and that dessert should be summery, light, satisfying, and guilt-free so that it doesn't matter how much you want to eat. From that perspective, I like to create dessert recipes that involve minimum sugar, and as much as possible use natural sweeteners (such as fruits, dates, etc.).

I love dates, and I see a lot of potential and room for creativity with date-based desserts. I've mostly used them to make energy balls / squares but this time I wanted to venture into baking a cake. And of course, crunchiness is a great texture to add in to (my) sweets, so walnuts was the option I went for.

So here's the Date-Walnut Cake recipe.

Date & Walnut Cake

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Recipe details

Yield 8 Slices
Time spent: Prep time: 10 Minutes Cook time: 40 Minutes Total time: 50 min

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Instructions

-Soak dates in hot milk for 30 min, then blend them together to get a smooth texture
-Add oil, room temperature milk and mix well to combine
-Add flour, baking powder and combine
-Add walnuts and fold the mix
-Grease some parchment paper and place in a pan / mold
-Pour the mix into the pan / mold (optional to garnish with extra walnuts)
-Bake for 30 min at 350