Dates - Walnut Cake

When i think of Walnut- Dates , this is the recipes which comes first in my mind. This is one of the simplest, healthiest and yummiest cake i have ever tasted and made. It came out very well. You should really try it out.

Ingredients :

• Dates                      - 200 gm
• Walnuts                   - 100 gm (i used 50gms of cashews + 50 gms of walnuts ) chopped
• Castor sugar            - 100 gm
• All purpose flour      - 100 gm
• Butter                      - 100 gm
• Baking Powder        - 1 ts. sp
• Nutmeg powder       - 1/2 ts. sp
• Cinnamon powder    - 1/2 ts. sp
• Egg                          - 2
• Honey                      - 2 ts. sp

Method :

1. Preheat the oven to 180 c.
2. Soak the chopped dates in hot water for 10 minutes. Grind them in mixer to coarse paste.
3. Mix butter and sugar and beat them well. Add one egg and beat them well, then add the second egg and mix them well .
4. Sieve flour, baking powder together 2 times and add them to the butter mixture.
5. Add Nutmeg powder, Cinnamon powder to the mixture. Mix them well.
6. Add honey and mix . Add walnuts and date paste to them and mix.
7. Pour the mixture to a greased baking tray. 
8. Bake them for 50 minutes. For the first 15 minutes bake them at 180 c and 160 c for the next 35 minutes.
9. Take out the tray and remove the cake from the tray and cool them on a cooling rack.