🍰 MOIST DATES CAKE

I always like to try new variations in cake. Today I tried a cake with dates. The outcome is soft, moist, delicious cake . 

Sharing here dates cake 🍰 recipe with step by step photos ! 

Ingredients :

2 cups all purpose flour
1/2 cups powdered sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
15 moist dates
Warm water
1/4 cup room temperature butter
1/4 cup vegetable oil
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla essence

USE  WARM WATER TO ADJUST CAKE BATTER CONSISTENCY .

METHOD:
Before making cake , let's make dates puree.

To make dates puree, take 15 dates and soak them in warm water for 30 minutes.
Make a fine paste of it in blender

1. In a mixing bowl, take two eggs.

2. Add 1/2 powdered sugar . Make sure you are not mixing sugar lumps in it .

3. Pour 1/4 cup vegetable oil.

In above mixture , add 1/4 cup room temperature butter . Don't add it directly taking out from fridge . We need butter at room temperature to mix it properly with other ingredients .

 Whisk it well till this mixture becomes fluffy.

4. Make dates puree.
To make dates puree, take 15 dates and soak them in warm water for 30 minutes.
Make a fine paste of it in blender

5. Add fresh dates puree in cake mixture . Mix it well.

6. Add 2 cups all purpose flour. Make sure you are not adding any lump of flour in cake mixture .

8. Add 1 spoon vanilla essence of your choice ,1/2 cup brown sugar , 1/4 tsp baking soda and 1/2 tsp baking powder in it .
Mix it well .

9. Preheat oven at temperature of 180 degree C. 

Grace cake mold with butter . If you have butter paper , you can spread it in cake mold instead of gracing it with butter . 

Make sure you are gracing cake mold from all sided carefully. 

It will help to come out your cake after baking,  without sticking to surface.

10 . Pour cake mixture in cake mold .
Tap it twice to remove air bubble in it .

Arrange dry fruits of your choice over it .

11. Bake this in preheated oven .

Set oven temperature 180 degree C . 

Set timer of 30 minutes .

12. It bakes nicely in exactly 30 minutes . Before removing it from oven , check it with tester at center of take . Pinch it till bottom . It should come out clean without sticky cake batter on it .

13. Let it cools down completely. 

14. Super soft dates cake from dates puree is ready to serve .

 Amruta