

This is a delicious quick cake made using dates and cashew nuts.Dates cakes are excellent for breakfast or tea time snack.
Ingredients
All purpose flour/Maida – 300 gm
Baking powder – 1 tsp
Dates, chopped (remove the stone) – 300gms
Baking soda – 1 tsp
Boiled water – 300 ml
Sugar – 125 gm
Butter – 100 gm
Egg – 1 no
Cashew nut, chopped – 75 gm

Method
Preheat oven to 180 degrees Celsius.
Sift all purpose flour and baking powder. Keep this aside.
In a bowl, add chopped dates and baking soda. Add boiled water and keep aside.
In another bowl, add sugar and butter. Using a hand mixer or a wooden spoon, mix until it is fluffy. Now add egg and blend well. To this add, chopped dates and baking soda mixture along with water . Add chopped nuts. Mix gently.
Line a cake tin and fill this with the cake batter. Bake for 45 minutes in the preheated oven.

Wonderful….
Yummy moist cake..
Haven't baked in sometime… looks like a guilt free snack…
Cake looks soft and delicious .Yumm
Such a lovely cake!
That looks so soft and delicious Beena..
Can you please tell me 300 gm means how many cups..
thanks..:)
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plain flour
1 cup = 150 gms = 5 ounces
1 cup = 125 gms = 4 1/2 ounces
brown sugar (loose pack)
1 cup = 175 gms = 6.25 ounces
brown sugar (tight pack)
1 cup = 220 gms = 8 ounces
white sugar
1 cup = 220 gms = 8 ounces
castor sugar
1 cup = 220 gms = 8 ounces
icing sugar
1 cup = 120 gms = 4 1/4 ounces
chocolate chips
1 cup = 190 gms = 6 3/4 ounces
honey and other syrups
1 tbsp = 21 gms = 3/4 ounce
1/4 cup = 85 gms = 3 ounces
1 cup = 340 gms = 12 ounces
Nice cake ,fluffy 🙂
Nice cake ,fluffy 🙂
must be really tasty with dates and nuts!!
A wholesome cake with dates and nuts!
healthy cake,love it!
I love dates and nuts in the cake!
fluffy and yummy cake
So moist and delicious….
Nice, delicious, moist and yummy cake…
Date nut cake adipoli Beena
nice cake actually it is one of my fav cake too.. 🙂
Moist, delicious and healthy cake…..!