Hello folks! I’m so excited as I write this, as this is the 100th post on my blog! And what better than making a cake to celebrate this sweet journey? 🙂 I know I’m late, but I would still like to wish all the mother’s out there a happy Mother’s Day, hope you had a beautiful day 🙂
I have for you a very simple egg-free, refined flour free, butter-free & no added sugar, moist date and walnut cake. So in case, you are on a diet and still want to indulge in a slice of cake, this is the cake you oughta try.
I hardly bake without eggs and never use whole wheat flour in any of my cake recipes. But this eggless date & walnut loaf cake makes for an amazingly moist and tender cake despite being eggless, I was completely baffled how a cake without the most basic ingredients can be this good? So what’s the secret? The secret would lie in the dates paste, which lends this cake the desired sweetness as well as keeping it moist at the same time. This moist, eggless, butter-free, date and walnut cake has the right amount of sweetness to satisfy those sweet cravings. It is also a perfect tea time cake. This is the best ever date loaf with walnuts that I’ve had so far, considering it doesn’t have flour, butter, sugar or eggs! You must try this amazing eggless date & walnut cake, coz you will surely be adding this to your recipe repertoire. I’m trying to experiment with a few eggless cake recipes and will surely post them once I have something worth sharing 🙂 {Update– I’ve shared a couple of eggless cake recipes, which you can find here} You will find tried and tested recipes for chocolate cake, red velvet cake, mango cake, rasmalai cake, orange cake, marble cake, mango semolina cake, all of which are eggless and super delicious!
INSTRUCTIONS TO MAKE EGGLESS DATE & WALNUT CAKE
1.Soak 20-25 seedless dates in 1.5 cups of warm milk for a couple of hours or until they soften. Remove the seeds if not using seedless. Save a few dates to be folded in the batter. 2.Preheat the oven on 350 degrees F. Blend the soaked dates into a paste along with the milk in which it was soaked. 3.Add 1/2 cup oil in the date and milk mixture and mix well. 4.Sift together 1 cup whole wheat flour and 1 teaspoon baking soda and 1/2 teaspoon baking powder. Grease a loaf pan with oil and dust with little flour or line it with parchment paper. 5.Chop the walnuts (about 1/2 cup) and few dates, coat it with 1 teaspoon whole wheat flour. 6.Add the flour to the dates and milk mixture. Mix just until no more flour pockets are visible. Do not over mix the batter. A few lumps are okay. Gently fold in the walnuts and dates. 7.Bake the cake in a greased loaf pan for 35-40min on 350*F. 8.Transfer to a wire rack and let it cool in the tin for 15-20 minutes, then unmold it and let it cool completely before slicing. NOTES 1.To get clean slices, you need to let the cake cool completely before you slice it. If you try to slice it even when it’s partly warm it will be crumbly. 2.You can add various things like choco chips if you wish, or flavor it with some spices like cinnamon, nutmeg, pumpkin pie spice mix, etc.
HOW TO MAKE EGGLESS DATE & WALNUT CAKE?
Recipe adapted from here. As I had mentioned in my earlier post, I had visited Washington DC for the cherry blossom festival. We stayed in Virginia with my friend Soniya and her family for 3 days. Soniya was kind enough to plan a day’s trip to Luray Caverns, situated in Shenandoah Valley, Virginia. Sharing some pics of this astoundingly beautiful place. Visiting these caverns is an experience so exhilarating and breathtaking with all it’s magnificent stalactites and stalagmites, which I had only learned about in geography. But to experience and see them in reality really blew my mind, nature is indeed magical 🙂 You can read more about the discovery of Luray caverns here I found it very interesting and fascinating at the same time that the formations here have been named after the things they resemble, how amazing is that ?? Well check out the pics, I’ve captioned them for ease of convenience, hope you enjoy them 🙂 If you get a chance, I highly recommend you visit this place! I would love to hear from you! Please feel free to share your feedback with photos and suggestions to me at [email protected] You can also follow me on, Facebook @ Aromaticessence Pinterest @ Aromatic Essence Instagram @ aromatic_essence77 Twitter @ freda_dias Regards, Freda
