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Date cake

18/01/2016

Date cake

Serves: 1 Medium cake Nutrition facts: 200 calories 20 grams fat

Ingredients

  • Reader Annamarié Spies is the October 2014 'Teetydtreffer' winner. She has baked the cake the last 34 years with great success. Delicious, especially if you love dates!
  • 250 g dates
  • 5 ml (1 t) baking soda
  • 250 ml (1 c) boiling water
  • 250 ml (1 c) sugar
  • 125 g butter or margarine
  • 2 extra-large eggs, beaten
  • 10 ml (2 t) baking powder
  • 500 ml (2 c) flour
  • 5 ml (1 t) vanilla extract
  • 200 g walnuts (optional), coarsely chopped
  • Stuffing
  • 150 g dates, finely chopped
  • 500 ml (2 c) sugar
  • 15 ml (1 tbs) butter
  • 125 ml (½ c) water
  • walnuts to garnish
  • glazed fruit for decoration (optional, we have dusted the cake lightly with icing sugar)

Instructions

Preheat the oven to 180 ° C.

1 Line two 23 cm cake pans with baking paper.
2 Sprinkle baking soda on the dates, add the boiling water and let soak until soft. Mash the dates with the back of a fork.
3 Beat the butter and sugar together and add the beaten eggs. Sift the baking powder and flour and add to the egg mixture.|
4 Add the nuts and vanilla and mix.
5 The mixture should be soft enough to run off the back of a spoon.
6 Spoon the batter into the prepared cake pans and bake for 35-40 minutes or until a skewer comes out clean.

Stuffing

1 Boil all ingredients together until smooth and spreadable.
2 Allow the cake to cool well and spread the filling between two layers of  the cake and on top, if desired.
3 Decorate with walnuts and glazed fruit, or dust with icing sugar like us.

 

 



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