Eggless Dates and walnut loaf recipe
No egg, no white sugar, no butter dates walnut loaf | cake
Servings: 1 loaf
Ingredients
- 1 cup plain flour | maida
- 18-20 seedless dates
- ½ cup powdered jaggery
- 1/2 cup oil
- ¾ cup milk
- 1 tsp baking soda
- ¼ cup chopped walnuts
Instructions
- Soak the dates in warm milk for 15 minutes.Alternatively you can microwave this for few minutes.
- When the milk comes to a normal temperature grind this into a smooth paste.
- Transfer this to a bowl and add the powdered jaggery or sugar.
- You can grind the sugar along with the dates too.
- Mix well evenly.
- Add oil to this and mix well.
- Add flour and baking soda to this.
- Mix well gently and evenly.
- Add 2 tbsp of chopped walnuts to this and mix well.
- Grease a baking tin and line it with a butter paper.
- Transfer the dates cake batter to this.
- Now dust the remaining walnuts with little flour .
- Sprinkle this on the top of the batter.
- Dusting with the flour, prevents the walnut from sinking into the dough.
- Preheat the oven at 160 degree Celsius for 5 minutes.
- Bake at 160 degree Celsius for 30-35 minutes. Mine got over in 32 minutes.
- Take out and cool in a wire rack.
- When it completely cool, cut into slices.
- You can make this in a cake tin too.
Notes
1. You can add chopped cashews also.
2. I added 1/4 tsp of vanilla essence to get the vanilla flavor.
3. The color of the eggless dates walnut cake depends upon the variety of dates and the jaggery you use.
