Date cake with walnuts and chocolate chips
Date cake and walnuts is a classic combination. The inherent sweetness of the soft dates contrasting against the crunchy nuts is a real treat.
Ingredients
- 500 grams medjool dates, pitted
- 1/4 tsp bicarbonate of soda
- 275 ml boiling water
- 150 grams butter
- 100 grams caster sugar
- 35 grams light brown sugar you can use caster sugar instead
- 2 large eggs
- 400 grams self raising flour
- 70 grams almonds you can substitute for walnuts
- 30 grams walnuts
- 150 grams chocolate chips add more or less to your taste
Instructions
- Heat the oven to 180C, fan assisted and line 30cm cake tin
- In a bowl, add the pitted dates and bicarbonate of soda. Then pour over the boiling water, give it a mix through and leave to sit.
- Next add the butter, sugar, eggs, self raising flour, almonds, walnuts and then the dates with the boiling water into the food processor. The food processor will be very full, so blitz on the lowest setting, once it seems things are mixing well, increase the speed and allow it to blitz together for 2 minutes or so.
- Then you will need to scrape the mixture into the cake tin spread the mixture evenly as possible.
- Then spread the chocolate chips on top of the batter and bake for an hour.
- After an hour check the cake to see if it's cooked through. I use a skewer to do this, if it comes out clean then the cake is ready. If not turn the heat down to 160C and cook for another 15 minutes. The cake should be fully cooked after this time.
