Eggless Date Cake

• Servings:
• Preparation time: 10 minutes.
• Preparing batter time: 10-12 minutes.
• Baking time: 40-45 minutes.
• Total time: 67 minutes.

Christmas is coming and it’s time to make Christmas feast and cake. Nothing is better than homemade cake.Taste of this homemade date cake is really superior and worth putting effort. So decorate your home with Christmas tree, get together with your family and friends. Give them lovely gifts and serve this date cake.

Ingredients:

• Maida: 2 cups
• Baking soda: 1 teaspoon
• Baking powder: 1 teaspoon
• Salt: 1 pinch
• Refined oil/ghee: ¾ cup
• Date: 22-25 no.
• Sugar: ¾ cup
• Ghee: 1 teaspoon
• Milk: 1 cup

Preparation:

1. Discard the seed of date; grind the date coarsely along with ¾ cup of milk. Keep aside.
2. Sieve Maida and baking soda, baking powder and salt together (sieve 3-4 times). keep aside.
3. Grind sugar and make powder. Keep aside.
4. Take a baking tray, put half teaspoon of ghee, and apply ghee all around the container.
5. Sprinkle one teaspoon of Maida over it. Discard extra Maida. Keep aside.
6. Take a big mixing bowl, put sugar and date paste.
7. Mix it well with the help of hand blender/food processor. (About 4-5 minutes).
8. Add sieved mixture of Maida, baking soda, baking powder and salt.
9. Mix well, if needed add little amount of milk.
10. Make a smooth batter.
11. Add refined oil and mix well.
12. Now cake batter is ready.

Method:

1. Choose the size of baking tray such that when batter is put into it, it gets half filled only, as after baking its volume gets nearly doubled.
2. Now bake it into preheated OTG at 160 degree centigrade for about 35-40 minutes.
3. Bake until toothpick inserted near the centre of the cake comes out clean.
4. If it sticks, bake further few minutes.
5. Let it cool; cut the cake into pieces after cooling.
6. Yum-yum-yummy cake is ready to serve.
7. Note:
8. You can bake it simply into pre heated cooker on minimum flame.
9. Let it cool for some time and transfer into serving disc.

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

Eggless Date Cake by Nag Ratna Sahu is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.