Date & Walnut Cake (Eggless)

Eggless Date & Walnut Cake

I was so sure that I had already put down this recipe in an earlier post, so decided to run a check on my blog for cakes...to my surprise did not find any entry...What?!?  cannot believe I did not post any cake recipes at all...well that is certainly not the case, so then....duh...guess what? somehow I had not put that down as a label at all, so had to do a more thorough check thru the dessert list and found I did have a chocolate cake down ( one of the many I make regularly )...but no entry for the above date cake - which is an absolutely amazing cake and one of my favourites.
Wondering however did I miss both the label cake in my blog and the post for this date cake...anyway set out to rectify both. 

So here I am, in the process of baking this once more ( this time at a request from hubby )...took some pictures of the final product - sorry do not have any of work in progress cause as I said - did not know that this was not down already in my blog...so anyways the next time maybe I might manage to get that too...

There are a lot of recipes for the same on the net... this one was adapted from one of them - have made the original one too but this is more moist and had a more intense date taste, due to increase in the no. of dates used.

I have passed on the date cake recipe to many and all have loved it, including my friend C who visited us the other day - she had come over for lunch and the dessert for that day was a rice & date kheer ( another recipe I really need to get down here ) - nyways this started her off on a discussion on the date cake - and how simple it is to make and how amazing it turns out, and how all her colleagues and friends with who she has shared the cake and recipe loved it....etc...

All this talk on the date cake made hubby long for it too...and hence the request for it ( not that I need a reason to bake it )...

Oh and did I mention that it is egg less - a boon for when I have to take something across for those of my friends and relatives who are vegetarians ( including C ).




Well coming back to the current, more moist and intense cake this modified version turned out....and it's cause.... the dates I was using this time were not uniform ( not from my regular source ) - some were small and some a bigger - so I used 2 small for one big - to what the recipe called for - and also used some extra milk to soak them in.
Since dates are quite sweet - had to use less sugar too...well anyways you can check out the ingredients and the method given right here...

Ingredients:

24 dates, seeds removed and chopped
1 cup milk
1/4 cup oil
1/2 cup sugar
1 cup all purpose flour
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 cup chopped walnuts

Method :

1) Remove the seeds from the dates, chop them into small pieces and soak them in milk ( I prefer to do this the day before and keep the soaked dates in milk overnight ).
2) Grind dates with the milk to a paste - and add sugar and grind again - remove into a bowl and add oil and mix.
3) In another bowl mix the all purpose flour, and baking soda - whisk it all together.
4) Add the flour mixture to the date mixture one spoon at a time - till it is all incorporated.
5) Add half of the chopped walnuts in the mix, stir, and pour in a greased 8*8 cake pan.
6) Put the remaining half of the walnuts on the top of the cake, and bake for 350 degrees F or 180 degrees C for about 30 - 40 minutes or till the inserted toothpick comes out clean.
7) Cool for 10 mins - remove the cake from the pan and cool on a wire rack for another 10 minutes till cook.
Enjoy !!!

P.S. This cake tastes better cool and real good with ice cream. Also the sweetness is just there - but in case you like you could add a couple of Tablespoons of sugar or even have some icing put on top of the cake.


I was a little apprehensive while trying out this modified version - but OMG - what a delicious treat - my Mom who swears by her favourite chocolate cake was a convert, and T was quite happy too...as for me....a big rousing....YES !!!