Ingredients
The following ingredients have 12 Servings
- 1 1/4 cup whole wheat flour
- 1 cup pitted dates soaked in hot water for an hour
- 1 cup chopped almonds (divided)
- 1/2 cup oil (I used olive oil)
- 1/2 cup sweetened condensed milk
- 1 1/4 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/8 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- cocoa powder for dusting
Instruction
- Soak pitted dates in 1 cup hot water. Soak for around an hour.
- Preheat oven at 180C.
- Take condensed milk and oil in a mixing bowl. Add vanilla essence and mix well till the mixture turns light.
- Sieve baking powder, baking soda and whole wheat flour well. Add this dry mixture to wet ingredients and whisk well.
- Drain the soaking dates and add to the flour mixture. Add 1/2 cup of chopped almonds to the batter and mix well.
- Take a 7 inch round cake. Grease and dust it well. I dusted it with cocoa powder. Pour the cake batter and tap well.
- Add the remaining chopped almonds all over the top. Bake in the preheated oven for 45-55 minutes.
- Once done and a tester comes out with very few crumbs at multiple places, remove the cake tin from oven. Let the cake cool in the tin for 10 minutes.
- Now remove the cake from tin and gently flip so that the nuts topping is visible. Allow the cake to cool thoroughly before slicing. Serve dates cake with coffee.
