Easy Date and Walnut Cake
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This is a great recipe for a date and walnut loaf. I have made this cake over and over again and it never fails. Even if I haven't been concentrating and I have left something out this cake still tastes delicious. It is nice and moist and lasts for several days - although in my house it doesn't get the chance to! It is a deliciously rich and very filling cake - wonderful with morning coffee or an afternoon cuppa. I like to think it has health benefits too - after all walnuts are a great source of omega 3 essential fatty acids as well as manganese, copper and magnesium. And dates are an excellent source of fibre.
So go ahead and give it a go!
Ingredients
100g (3 1/4 oz) pitted dates
100 g (3 1/4 oz) unsalted butter
100g (3 1/4 oz) soft brown sugar
2 eggs (lightly beaten)
2 teaspoons honey, golden syrup or treacle
100g (3 1/4 oz) plain flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
good pinch of cinnamon
100g (3 1/4 oz) chopped walnuts
100g (3 1/4 oz) raisins
Method
- Soak the dates in a bowl of 100ml boiling water while you get the cake ready.
- Turn on oven to 180 C (350 F).
- Grease a loaf tin (21 x 11 x 6.5 cm - or similar size)
- Line loaf tin with baking paper
- Cream sugar and butter together well. Slowly add egg and then honey or syrup.
- Sift flour, baking powder and cinnamon together and then gently fold into the butter/egg mixture.
- Finally fold in the walnuts, raisins and drained but moist dates.
- Dollop mixture into tin, smooth out and bake for about 50 mins until skewer comes out clean. I normally turn the oven down to about 160 C after 15 minutes.
- Turn out and cool on a rack.
Enjoy!
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Comments
One for the weekend, when we have time to bake. Your family are certainly enjoying some great cooking as a result of your new hubbing hobby, Catherine R! Lucky them!
Thanks folks. dohn - I am glad to hear you can cook There is nothing more attractive than a man who knows how to cook - it should stand you in good stead! I worked in the restaurant biz in London for years and I also went to Cordon Bleu school so food has always been a big thing in my life. Jean H - this cake is good for the young H boys' lunchboxes. Good fuel.
How about some easy weekday supper recipes for us to try on some of your next hubs? Obviously with an intellectual article or two in between!
OK Jean H - I will see what I can do!
I checked 6-7 urls for Walnut and date cake - this was the easiest! Really easy to follow and do..Love it. Tks! :)
Thank you prabha kumar!
Yummy....it looks delicious cake. thanks for share the great recipes.
dohn121 says:
3 months ago
What a great combination of flavors, Catherine. I am definitely bookmarking this as well. I found that in our modern age, less and less women know how to cook (at least all of the ones I've dated). I really hope that this somehow changes. I actually know how to cook pretty well myself ( I was a head cook at a camp, a line cook and a prep-cook-over 7 years of experience) but never got into baking...Maybe you'll help in that department :D Thanks again!