Date Cake (Christmas Special Cake)

Date Cake is a delicious and mouth watering cake which is simple and easy to prepare. This cake becomes very moist the next day when it is covered. This recipe was made by our grand parents and i prepared this during Christmas time. I beleive this recipe is between us not less than 40 years and every one would have tried this cake atleast once. This is one of my favourite cake during any time of the year. So yummy and cannot resist with one serving :)

Ingredients:

Dates - 20 nos (seedless)

Egg - 2 nos

Milk - ½ cup + ¾ cup

Sugar (powdered) - 1 cup

All purpose flour - 1 cup

Baking soda / Baking powder - 1 tsp

Cooking oil / Cooking Butter - ½ cup

Almonds - 20 nos (chopped)

Salt - ¼ tsp

Butter - 2 tbsp (to grease the baking pan)

Preparation:

- Soak dates in warm water for 10 - 15 minutes, remove the seeds and keep aside.

- Once done, soak the seedless dates in ½ cup warm water for atleast 4 - 5 hours.

- Meanwhile, powder the sugar, melt the butter, beat the egg well and keep aside.

- Grind the soaked dates, ¾ cup warm milk, powdered sugar, beaten eggs and salt to a smooth paste. Remove the mixture to a mixing bowl.

- Now add butter, baking soda and beat well. Keep adding all purpose flour little by little while beating the mixture till smooth and fluffy.

- Once done add chopped almonds and mix well.

- Grease the baking pan and pour the cake mix for the delicious date cake to be cooked.

- Place the cake tray in a microwave convection mode at 180 degrees for 50 - 60 minutes or till done.

- Once done, let cool, decorate and enjoy your yummy Date cake with ice cream or plain for Christmas.

Note:

- I used cooking oil instead of cooking butter. Its upon taste and how moist you want your cake.

- This cake can be cooked with or without egg.

- This is a recipe I tried from a blog with slight variations.

- Any dry fruits can be added to the cake, I just used chopped almonds.