Eggless dates cake.

Ingredients:

• Dates -18 no


• milk-3/4 cup
  
• sugar-3/4 cup
  
• 1 cup all purpose flour or maida
  
• 1/2 cup oil


• Baking soda -1/2 t spoon
  
• Baking powder-1/2 tspoon


• 1 tbl spn cashews, walnuts(optional)

Procedure:

• Soak the dates in warm milk overnight .(no need to soak if u use seedless dates), remove the seeds.
  
• Add sugar and grind them to a smooth paste along with the milk in which it is soaked in.
  
• Add oil and mix.
  
• Sieve together flour and baking soda. Add the flour and mix slowly. Add the nuts and mix.


• Preheat the oven at 350F. Bake the cake in a greased oven proof dish for 35-40min (or till a knife inserted in the cake comes out clean)
  

Note:

• The color of the cake largely depends on the dates used. I have made it with different varieties of dates and sometimes it turns out black and sometimes it is very light in color.\

I have used whipping cream and choclate chips for decorating for my hubby's and daughter's b'day.

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