Dates and Walnut Cake
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Dates and walnut cake with milk-soaked dates and whisked eggs, baked in an oven or a covered pot. Makes 6 servings in about an hour, step-by-step video.
Ingredients
9 itemsMaida1.5 cup
Walnuts, Chopped½ cup
Vanilla Essence1 tsp
Baking Powder2 tsp
Seedless Dates15
Sunflower Oil1 cup
Milk120 ml
Sugar1 cup
Eggs4
Contains: milk, egg, cashew or other tree nuts, wheat.
Nutrition
One serving, and the whole batch of 6. Worked out from the ingredients, so treat it as a close guide.
| Nutrient | Per serving | All 6 |
|---|---|---|
| Energy | 817kcal | 4902kcal |
| Protein | 10g | 62g |
| Carbohydrate | 80g | 479g |
| Fat | 52g | 310g |
| Fibre | 3.2g | 19g |
| Sugar | 49g | 296g |
Cookd masalas for seedless dates
Method
- 1
Chop the seedless dates, and let it soak with lukewarm milk in a bowl.
Seedless DatesMilk
- 2
Add sugar and oil to a bowl and blend till it combines well.
Sunflower OilSugar
- 3
Add eggs and whisk till it starts to get fluffy. Add vanilla essence and wisk them mixture again till the eggs turn fluffy and flows like a ribbon.
Vanilla EssenceEggs
- 4
Sieve in the dry ingredients and fold the mixture till it becomes a smooth batter.
MaidaBaking Powder
- 5
Transfer it to a baking pan lined with parchment paper. Add the chopped walnuts. To bake it in the oven, preheat the oven to 180 degrees and bake it for 25 minutes. Check with a toothpick if the cake is done. Let it cool down and then demould it.
Walnuts
- 6
For a no oven method, preheat a pot on a medium flame, Place a small vessel or stand at the bottom of the vessel. Place the baking pan on the vessel inside and close the pot tightly. Bake it on a medium flame for 45 minutes. Do not open the pot during the course of the baking.
- 7
Let the cakes cool down. Demould it carefully. Cut and serve.
Before you start
- How long does Dates and Walnut Cake take?
- 1 hour from start to finish. That is 15 minutes of preparation and 45 minutes of cooking.
- How many people does Dates and Walnut Cake serve?
- 6. The ingredient quantities on this page rescale if you are cooking for a different number.
- Is Dates and Walnut Cake vegetarian?
- It is eggetarian: no meat or fish, but it does contain egg.
- Is Dates and Walnut Cake spicy?
- No, it is not spicy.
- What do I need to make Dates and Walnut Cake?
- 15 Seedless Dates, 1.5 cup Maida, ½ cup Walnuts, 4 Eggs, 1 cup Sunflower Oil, 1 cup Sugar, and a few more listed on this page.
- Do I need a pressure cooker for Dates and Walnut Cake?
- No, it is cooked in an open pot.
- How many calories are in Dates and Walnut Cake?
- About 817 a serving. The full nutrition table is on this page, per serving and for the whole batch.
Tips from other cooks
3 notes- G
GayathriMarch 2023
I used 1+1/3 cup jaggery instead of 1 cup sugar . It tastes good.
- C
A Cookd cookMay 2024
I beat eggs white and yoke separately and mixed them together at the end and added only walnut . it's to puffy and taste 😋😋 yummy 🤤🤤🤤
- C
A Cookd cookNovember 2022
what about soaked dates?
