Date & Walnut Cake
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
Recipe details
Ingredients
For the mix
- -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
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
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