Date and Walnut Cake - No Egg

Ingredients list for Date and Walnut Cake - No Egg

• 1 cup Chopped dates
• 3/4 cup Walnuts toasted and chopped
• Refined flour (maida) 2 cups + for dusting
• 1 cup Milk warm
• 1 teaspoon Instant coffee powder
• 1 teaspoon Baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon Baking soda
• a pinch Salt
• Melted butter 1 cup + for greasing
• 3/4 cup Brown sugar
• 1 teaspoon Vanilla essence
• 3/4 cup Buttermilk
• for dusting Icing sugar

Method

1. Preheat oven to 180º C. Grease a cake tin with some butter and dust with some flour.
2. Put dates in a bowl, add milk and coffee powder and mix.
3. Sift together refined flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt into another bowl and mix well.
4. Add butter and brown sugar and mix well. Add vanilla essence and walnuts and mix.
5. Add date mixture and mix well. Add buttermilk and mix till well blended into a batter.
6. Pour batter into prepared tin, tap a little and place in the preheated oven. Bake for 45 minutes.
7. Remove tin from oven and cool cake down to room temperature. Remove cake from tin, dust with icing sugar and serve.

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