Eggless Dates cake

The moment I saw Lavi's post on Egg-less dates cake and how it tastes like adhirisam , I wanted to try it as S likes adhirisam a lot. I made this as a surprise cake when S returned home after a business trip overseas. I never mentioned to him about it being a "dates" cake. I was sure he would decide it wouldn't taste good even before eating a tiny piece of it. :).

He liked the cake and confirmed it indeed did taste a little like adhirisam and only later i revealed it was a dates cake. So something healthy in a cake. ;)

Eggless Dates Cake

Ingredients

Recipe Source - Home cook recipes

Serves - One eight inch square cake , 8-10 medium sized pieces
Prep time - 20 minutes
Cooking/Baking time - 30-40 minutes

Seedless Dates - 18
Milk - 3/4 cup
Sugar - 3/4 cup
All Purpose flour - 1 cup
Oil - 1/2 cup [Rice bran or any odorless neutral oil]
Baking soda - 1 tsp
Cashews, Badam [chopped] and raisins - 1/3 cup

Method

Preheat the oven to 170 deg C. Spray an 8 inch square cake pan with non-stick cooking spray and line with butter paper.

Boil the milk first and keep aside. When the milk is warm, add in the dates and let them soak in it for 2 hours. Now pour this in your mixer/blender jar along with sugar and blend it to a smooth paste.Add oil and blend again. Pour this filling into a large bowl now.

Mix the flour and baking soda together. Take a tbsp of the this flour and mix with 1/3 cup of badam,cashews and raisins and keep aside. This will prevent the dry fruits from sinking to the bottom of the cake.

Now add the flour into the blended milk-dates-sugar-oil gradually a tablespoon by tablespoon. Do not add large quantities of flour and try to mix them, it would create a lot of lumps. Once the flour has been fully mixed , add the badam,cashews and raisins and mix well.

Now pour this mix into the prepared cake pan. Bake for 30 minutes at 170 deg C or until a toothpick inserted through the center of the cake comes out clean. Allow the cake to cool down for 10-15 minutes and then remove it out of the pan.Cut into different slices and hog. :). Once cooled down completely store the remaining in an air-tight box and refrigerate . We enjoyed it as our breakfast for 3 days. :)

Serve warm with vanilla ice cream or with a cup of tea/coffee.



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