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Dates Cake Recipe–  would like to share some baking recipe in this Christmas season. I made this whole wheat dates cake using eggs. Its presence made this cake very spongy. This cake becomes  more fluffy and spongy on next day. So let it sit a day before serving. Addition of cocoa and instant coffee powder adds more flavor to this cake.

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Dates cake Recipe – Ingredients

Dry Ingredients

• Wheat flour – 1 ½ cups
• Maida – ¼ cup
• Cocoa powder – 2 tbsp
• Baking powder – 1 ½ tsp
• Baking soda – 1 tsp
• Instant coffee powder – 2 tsp
• Sugar – ¾ cup
• Dates(seedless) – 10nos

Wet Ingredients

• Milk – 1 cup
• Oil(refined) – ½ cup
• Water – 1 cup
• Eggs – 2
• Vanilla essence – 1 tbsp
• Lemon juice – 1 tbsp

To top:

• Almonds – 5nos(chopped)

Method:

1. Chop dates and almonds and keep aside.
2. Heat milk , add chopped dates and instant coffee powder and mix well. Let it sit for 20 mins and cool completely.
3. Take the cake mould, grease with oil or butter and dust with flour and  keep aside.
4. Pre-heat oven to 180degrees for 10 mins.
5. Now sieve  dry ingredients wheat flour, Maida, baking powder, baking soda and cocoa powder together and keep aside
6. In a mixing bowl, add sugar and oil and whisk using electric beater or hand whisk till the sugar dissolves.
7. Add two eggs in it and again beat well.
8. Now add water, vanilla essence, lemon juice and milk dates mixture. Mix well and then slowly add the sieved flour mix little by little and blend with electric beater in low speed. We can fold the mix using spatula or hand whisk also. Make sure there is no lumps in cake batter.
9. Pour this batter in dusted cake pan, sprinkle chopped almond on top of the batter. Gently tap on sides and place in pre-heated oven and bake for 50 mins.
10. After 50mins, insert tooth pick or knife in Centre, if it comes out clean, the cake is done.
11. Invert the cake in wire rack and let it cool completely. Then slice and serve.

Notes:

1. If you are using black dates, no need to soak in milk. You can cut and directly use in batter.

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1. Dry Ingredients
2. Wheat flour – 1 ½ cups
3. Maida – ¼ cup
4. Cocoa powder – 2 tbsp
5. Baking powder – 1 ½ tsp
6. Baking soda – 1 tsp
7. Instant coffee powder – 2 tsp
8. Sugar – ¾ cup
9. Dates(seedless) – 10nos
10. Wet Ingredients
11. Milk – 1 cup
12. Oil(refined) – ½ cup
13. Water – 1 cup
14. Eggs - 2
15. Vanilla essence – 1 tbsp
16. Lemon juice – 1 tbsp

To top

1. Almonds – 5nos(chopped)

Instructions

1. 1. Chop dates and almonds and keep aside.
2. 2. Heat milk , add chopped dates and instant coffee powder and mix well. Let it sit for 20 mins and cool completely.
3. 3. Take the cake mould, grease with oil or butter and dust with flour and keep aside.
4. 4. Pre-heat oven to 180degrees for 10 mins.
5. 5. Now sieve dry ingredients wheat flour, Maida, baking powder, baking soda and cocoa powder together and keep aside
6. 6. In a mixing bowl, add sugar and oil and whisk using electric beater or hand whisk till the sugar dissolves.
7. 7. Add two eggs in it and again beat well.
8. 8. Now add water, vanilla essence, lemon juice and milk dates mixture. Mix well and then slowly add the sieved flour mix little by little and blend with electric beater in low speed. We can fold the mix using spatula or hand whisk also. Make sure there is no lumps in cake batter.
9. 9. Pour this batter in dusted cake pan, sprinkle chopped almond on top of the batter. Gently tap on sides and place in pre-heated oven and bake for 50 mins.
10. 10. After 50mins, insert tooth pick or knife in Centre, if it comes out clean, the cake is done.
11. 11. Invert the cake in wire rack and let it cool completely. Then slice and serve.

Notes

1. 1. If you are using black dates, no need to soak in milk. You can cut and directly use in batter.

By Ranjani Ranjani's Kitchen http://www.ranjaniskitchen.com/