Dates Cake (Egg less and Butter less)

This is a soft and moist butter less and egg less cake with the goodness of dates in it. This cake is very easy to make and tastes awesome. I am posting lots of pictures of this yummy cake....so sit tight...you are going to enjoy it.... :)

As my family said.... it tastes like gulab jamun. I added little less sugar as mentioned in the quantity, as dates has its own sweetness. 

Now-a-days, i take the ingredients for baking, according to the gms and ml and not by cups unless the recipe demands. I read somewhere that for baking cakes, the ingredients has to be accurate using gms and ml and if we convert it into cups there will be a slight difference in the quantity. So i would suggest you to take the ingredients according to the gms and ml, but again its your choice....

I don't know how to describe about this cake...Try it out by yourself and you will come to know.

Recipe Source: Sharmis Passions

Ingredients

1 cup (135 gms) Maida/All Purpose Flour
18 Dates (de-seeded, brown or black coloured)
3/4 cup (185 ml) Milk
3/4 cup (165 gms) Sugar
1/2 cup (125 ml) Oil
1 tsp Baking Soda
1 tbsp Nuts (chopped, any nuts of your choice, optional)


Method

• Soak the de-seeded dates in little milk and keep this aside for 15 to 30 minutes.
• In the mean time, sieve together maida and baking soda. Keep this aside.
• In a deep bowl, add sugar, milk and oil. Mix it well using and electric hand beater till the sugar is completely dissolved. Keep this aside.
• Grind the soaked dates into a fine paste and add this into the milk mixture. Beat it again till everything is well combined.
• Now add the maida-baking soda mix into it, little by little. Mix well using a wooden spoon, till everything is combined properly.
• Add the chopped nuts and mix once again.
• Pre-heat oven at 175 degree Celsius in convection mode.
• Grease a cake tin with butter or oil and line a butter paper in it.
• Pour the prepared cake batter in it 
• Place the cake tin in the pre-heated oven for 35 - 40 minutes. Check with a tooth pick whether cooked or not.
• Once it is cooked, give a standing time of 5 minutes.
• Later, take off from the cake tin and let it cool on a wire rack.
• Once cooled, cut into pieces and serve. 

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