Date Cake
- Ready In:
- 1hr
- Ingredients:
- 12
- Yields:
-
1 cake
ingredients
-
CAKE
- 500 ml flour
- 400 ml sugar
- 1 egg
- 2 ml baking powder
- 375 ml butter
- 1 1⁄2 cups pitted dates, chopped
- 250 ml boiling water
- 5 ml baking soda
- 1 pinch salt
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TOPPING
- 45 ml butter
- 45 ml milk
- 45 ml sugar
directions
- Put dates in boiling water with baking soda and leave to cool.
- Cream sugar, butter and vanilla extract.
- Add egg and dates and mix in well.
- Add all dry ingredients.
- Place in prepared baking pan and ake at 180C for 45 minutes.
- 5 minutes before cake comes out of oven, boil topping ingredients together for 3 minutes.
- Stab cake with knife and pour topping over as it comes out of the oven.
- Serve warm or cool.
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RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
Bokenpop aka Mad
Milford, Delaware
I was born and raised in South Africa but now live in Delaware USA. Since I can remember I have been cooking! My first real cooking experience was when I was 7. I came home from school one afternoon and felt like French toast. My elder brother was home with his friends and did not want to make it for me, so I got a pan out, put it on the stove, turned the stove on to high. After that I could not remember what to do, but I knew that French toast involved bread so I put the bread in the hot pan without grease and poured milk over it! Oy vey... My brother's friend asked me what I was trying to make and I told him. He laughed and told me I was making it wrong but he also taught me how to make French toast the right way. I came home every day after that and made French toast. I felt so confident with the little bit of knowledge I had acquired that I soon started experimenting with other things. Nothing was going to stop me! The first full meal I ever made for my family was boiled rice and oven roasted chicken pieces with a steamed vegetable medley. I was 8 years old and my mom was in hospital. My dad was struggling to hold down an intensely busy job, keep the family going and be with my mom, so I thought I would help him. I don't think he believed that I had done it on my own. I remember telling him that I read in a cookery book how to make a roast chicken but I did not know what "a" rosemary was so I just put the chicken in the dish without it. Decades later with a myriad tried and tested recipes behind me - flops and failures included - I know my way around any food item and kitchen utensil, much to my family's delight!