Enjoy this delicious moist cake with a warm cup of tea
170g whole dates (3/4 cup)
1 cup cake flour
1 tsp baking powder
3/4 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp salt
Pinch nutmeg
3/4 cup vegetable oil (I use canola)
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/4 cup honey
2 large eggs
1 tsp vanilla
1/2 cup chopped walnuts
Nonstick cooking spray
20cm loaf pan, 2 mixing bowls
Method:
- Preheat oven to 160 C.
- Place dates into a bowl and cover them with very hot water. Let the dates soak while you prepare the cake batter.
- In a large mixing bowl, sift together cake flour, baking powder, cinnamon, salt, and nutmeg.
- In a medium mixing bowl, whisk together vegetable oil, brown sugar, honey, eggs, and vanilla.
- Pour the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients and stir till a thick batter forms.
- Drain water from the dates. Pit the dates, then chop the fruit into small chunks.
- Fold the walnuts and date chunks into the batter.
- Generously grease your loaf pan with cooking spray. Pour batter into loaf pan.
- Place loaf pan in preheated oven. Bake cake for about 1 hour, or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Remove from oven and set on a wire rack to cool.
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