Chocolate Chip Date Nut Cake

"This was my favorite birthday cake growing up as a young boy. Everytime my Grandma Laura would come to visit us in Taos, NM, she'd pick one up from Dory's Bakery and bring it over. I was able to get ahold of Dory long after she'd sold the place and surprisingly she still remembered me and my mother, Joan, who was her friend. She gladly gave me the recipe although the measurements were obviously for multiple cakes, I quartered it and came up with the right increments for just one really large one or a couple regular ones. This cake doesn't include frosting but was sprinkled with powdered sugar and served. Believe me when I tell you the frosting is not missed! This coming from a former little boy with a hell of a sweet tooth!"
 
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photo by Ian Magary photo by Ian Magary
photo by Ian Magary
Ready In:
55mins
Ingredients:
13
Yields:
2 cakes
Serves:
24
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ingredients

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directions

  • Preheat oven to 325°F.
  • Grease (2) 9" x 13" cake pans.
  • Combine flour, coco powder, baking soda, salt and sugar whisk, then add eggs and margerine in electric mixer bowl and combine.
  • Add water and dates.
  • Combine walnuts and chocolate chips and reserve 1/2 for cake topping.
  • Add the other half to the batter and mix inches.
  • Spread batter into pans and add the reserved nuts and chocolate chips as a topping for the cakes.
  • Bake for 40 minutes.
  • Sprinkle with powdered sugar after cakes are cool and before serving.

Questions & Replies

  1. Recipe is for 2 9x13 pans. Photo is in Bundt pan. How much if the batter would you pour into a Bundt pan and how long would you cook/at what temp?
     
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Reviews

  1. A Comfort Cake! Memories are really the most important ingredient in any recipe from our childhood. <br/>Thank you for sharing your recipe with all of us. We are richer for it, Kendra in WV
     
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Retired Navy Deepsea Diver (11 yrs) then Explosive Ordnance Disposal (14 yrs). I love to cook, especially with my children! We make some fantastic creations! Married to a wonderful woman, Kimberly Anne Magary and reside in the eastern Sierra Nevada mountains.?
 
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