Friday, May 25, 2012

Eggless, Butterless Dates Cake ~ A Date You Can Never Refuse


These Dates Cake have become our family favorite from more than a year now, my kids who are not a big fan of dates finishes this cake in no time and they don't even know its dates cake. Because of its color and the very soft and moist texture it has a glimpse of chocolate cake but the taste resembles a bit of our Kerala Fruit Cake with its cinnamon flavor and melt in mouth moist bites.

So do you believe you can bake a very moist cake without butter, eggs or even milk?? Of course for sure, I've already posted a recipe of Chocolate Chip cupcakes before and since then I believe anyone can bake eggless and butterless cakes. But the complete credit of this dates recipe goes to Lakshmi Nair's show Magic Oven where she narrates the making of this cake so well. I even I love the fact that majority of the work is done stove top before you proceed with adding the dry ingredients. You can as well prepare the dates mix ahead of a day, leave them overnight to cool and use it the next day and bake the cake.
So try out this very simple and ezee to bake super moist dates cake at home and Enjoy!!!!!!


Ingredients I used:-
  1. All Purpose Flour/Maida - 2 Cups
  2. Dates Finely chopped - 1 Cup
  3. Sugar - 1 Cup
  4. Water - 2 Cups
  5. Cinnamon powder - 1 tsp(I used pumpkin pie spice which contains cinnamon powder, nutmeg powder etc)
  6. Vegetable Oil - ½ cup
  7. Baking Soda - 2 tsp
  8. Salt a pinch
How I made It:-
  • Pre-heat the oven to 350 Defree F. Grease and flour the baking pan and set aside.
  • Sieve twice together - flour, baking powder, salt and set aside.
  • Add chopped dates, spice powder, sugar, vegetable oil and water in a pan or kadai, stir and mix well.
  • Heat up the pan and bring the dates mix to boil by stirring them occasionally. Simmer to medium heat and let it boil for seven to ten minutes, stir in between so that dates do not stick to the bottom of the pan.
  • Switch off the stove and let it cool completely. Make sure the mix is not even a tiny bit hot.
  • Now add the flour little by little to the dates mix, stir well with a whisk or wooden spatula making sure no lumps are formed. 
  • Pour this mix to prepared cake pan and bake for 40-45 minutes or till a cake tester inserted comes out clean. Take out from the oven, let it cool completely, slice and Enjoy!!!!!!!!

18 comments:

  1. One of my kids favorite too, love it's color, texture & taste too , very nicely done dear :-))

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  2. Loved the cake...would try soon :)
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  3. Dates cake is my favorite,great texture dear

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  4. wow...i too am a dates cake fan

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  5. Dates cake......never had one but looks inviting ....love 2 try this one :)

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  6. wow...thatz a lovely n healthy cake......yummy

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  7. wow Pratibha! that looks so divine and moist... I love the colour
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  8. Looks so yummy! Eager to try it out

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  9. wow....the dates cake look super duper yummy dear...very tempting !!!!

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  10. Looks very soft and nice title :)
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  11. Super moist n delicious cake, appealing color...

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  12. Cake came out super prefect,super soft and fabulous.

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  13. I love sticky toffee pudding, and your date cake reminds me of that pudding..albeit healthier! This is bookmarked for our next tray bake weekend treat!

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  14. jus love butter less cakes coz it is soo much easier to make and healthier too..this one looks soft and perfect...lovely

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