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Date molasses cake
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5 from 1 vote

Date molasses cake

Prep Time20 minutes
Cook Time50 minutes
Total Time1 hour 10 minutes
Course: Breakfast, Dessert, Snack
Servings: 7 people

Ingredients

  • 4 Eggs
  • ¾ cup Date molasses
  • ¼ cup Boiling water
  • 2 ½ cup Flour
  • 1 tbsp Baking powder
  • ¾ cup Oil
  • some Vanilla essence
  • Chopped walnuts if desired
  • ½ cup Sugar optional

Instructions

  • Grease a Bundt pan, pour some oil into it, and dust it with flour.
  • Preheat the oven for 15 minutes at 180 degrees.
  • Combine dry ingredients including flour and baking powder and sift them three times.
  • Beat the eggs with an electric mixer for 7 minutes, until they are fluffy and elastic.
    Beat the eggs with mixer
  • Gently dribble the oil into a corner of the bowl and gradually incorporate it into the eggs. If you try to add the oil directly to the center of the bowl, you may deflate the eggs' volume.
  • Add the date molasses in the bowl, and stir the mixture together until it become thoroughly incorporated.
    Add the date molasses
  • Pour the boiling water in slowly, and stir until the ingredients are thoroughly homogeneous. Turn off the mixer when you reach that stage—no need to keep mixing.
  • Using the sifter, gradually add the flour in 2 to 3 batches, and whisk it to combine. Do not stir vigorously, as this will cause the dough to deflate.
    add the flour
  • Add walnuts if you like to. saturate your walnuts in flour before adding them to the recipe.
  • Pour the mixture into the greased pan and put the pan in the oven for 40 to 50 minutes. Do a toothpick test after 40 minutes. Insert a toothpick into the center of the cake; if it comes out clean, the cake is done.
    cakes batter in the bundt pan
  • Bon appetite!
    the cake is ready

Notes

  • I make this cake without sugar. However, if you want to add sugar, do so in the second step, beat it with the eggs until they swell up.
  • This recipe is designed to be flexible. A first-time baker of this cake may find, depending on the sweetness of the finished cake, that adding more date molasses next time will hit the spot. Depending on how sweet the cake is, you may want to add more date molasses next time or stick with 3/4 cup.  It all depends on your tastes!
  • You can use grape molasses instead of date molasses.
  • Now, date molasses is something you can make at home, and it’s so easy. You only need some dates. I’ll show you how to do it in my post Date Molasses Recipe.
  • If you plan to add some walnuts to your cake, be sure to coat the walnuts in flour first. Add 1 tablespoon of the measured flour to a bowl and toss the walnuts in it. This will prevent walnuts from sinking to the bottom of the cake. In the end you will have a perfect date syrup cake, with walnut pieces.
  • If you are interested in Natural Sweeteners, I suggest you check out the No Bake Date Bar recipe.
    Date molasses cake