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Date Cake

Hello!! I know I've been missing for some time, I have lots to blog about, from the new baby to recipes tried to adjusting to being a mother of two... but I shall skip all those for now. Haha.

Yesterday I tried making date cake. I don't like eating dates on its own, I do eat them when they are squashed and all watered down in overnight oats.

Since I saw FFL and smittenkitchen try out date cakes and smittenkitchen loved it despite not loving dates, I thought I'd give it a try.

Date Cake from taste.com.au (I always trust AU and UK websites for desserts!)

250g dates, pitted and chopped (I just tore them using hands)
1 tsp baking soda
1 1/2 cups boiling water
125g butter, softened
3/4 cups brown sugar
2 eggs
2 cups self raising flour (I used normal flour + 1 1/2 tsp baking powder)
Chopped walnuts, slivered almonds

  1. Soak the dates in the boiling water for forever. Hahaha no la they recommend 20 minutes but I took a couple of hours because I was busy handling two kids.
  2. Cream butter and sugar. Add one egg at a time, mixing the batter well.
  3. Add the flour and date mixture alternately and mix well.
  4. Transfer to an 8 inch pan and bake for 40-45 minutes. I go and use a 7 inch pan (recipe said 7 inch high not 7 inch wide hurhur) so I took 1 hour 10 minutes.



All baked and ready to taste! 


Here's a close up. It's moist and since I didn't mince the dates, there were shreds of it in the cake. It's good, especially after a day, but I can't say there's no date taste at all. The recipe calls for caramel sauce drizzled on top but I think because it's so sweet I think it'll be better with vanilla sauce or light cream cheese frosting, but I haven't got the time for that. Haha.
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