Date Cake
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recipe by Anushree Shetty https://simmertoslimmer.com/
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- Total Time
- 1hr 0mins
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- Serves
- 16
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- Calories
- 182
What’s not to love about a cake that’s made from luscious dates and is moist, soft and so easy to make! It was so good that I am going to let the recipe do all the talking... really and also maybe because my mouth is stuffed with the last piece of this cake. I fell in love with this cake the minute I popped it out of the oven. It was perfect! The date cake had baked beautifully and it had absolutely no cracks – all I did was dust it with some confectioners sugar and that’s it.
Inspired by: http://simmertoslimmer.com/date-cake/recipe updated Feb 23, 2022
Ingredients
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- Water
- 360 ml
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- Dates
- 225 g
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- Baking soda
- 1 teaspoon
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- Unsalted butter
- 115 g
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- Granulated sugar
- 155 g
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- Egg
- 2
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- Vanilla extract
- 1 teaspoon
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- All purpose flour
- 130 g
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- Whole wheat flour
- 65 g
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- Salt
- ¼ teaspoon
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- Baking powder
- 2 teaspoons
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- Powdered sugar
- as needed
Tools
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Stand mixer
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Oven
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Stove
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Saucepan
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Stand mixer bowl
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Square pan - 9"
Step preview
- Pre-heat oven - 175°C
- Grease a clean square pan with cooking spray or butter
- Add water to a clean saucepan
- Heat until boiling
- Add dates to the saucepan
- Cook - 5 min, medium heat
- Add baking soda to the saucepan and continue mixing
- Switch off the heat
- Set aside - 15 min
- Grind into a fine paste then set aside
- Add unsalted butter and granulated sugar to the stand mixer bowl
- Cream until light and fluffy - medium speed
- Add egg and vanilla extract to the stand mixer bowl
- Beat until combined
- Add all purpose flour, whole wheat flour, salt and baking powder
- Transfer the pureed date mixture to the stand mixer bowl
- Mix until combined
- Pour the batter into the greased pan
- Bake until skewer tests clean - 35 min, 175°C
- Remove from the oven
- Let cool completely in the pan
- Dust with powdered sugar
- Serve