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Date Orange Cake

Name: Date orange cake
Prep time: 30 min
Cook time: 50 min
Total time: 80 min
Ingredients: 200 g plain flour (all-purpose flour); 120 g pitted dates (chopped); 1 tsp baking soda (for dates); 1 tsp baking powder; 1 riped banana (mashed); 1 tsp orange zest; 15 ml cointreau or orange juice; 170 g unsalted butter (softened); 75 g white sugar (please add 100g if you prefer this cake on a sweeter side.); 50 g muscavado sugar; 2 eggs; 1/2 tsp each ginger, cinnamon and cardamom powder; 1/4 tsp all-spice powder; 1/4 tsp salt; 1/4 cup cream; 50 g chopped walnuts (optional)

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Date Orange Cake made with bananas and warm spices and topped with orange glaze and walnuts, doesn’t it sound just perfect!

I love baking with dates and bananas, I reckon they make a perfect baked cake or a quick bread or muffins. I bake this combination quite a lot but this time I wanted to try some different flavours and since I had too many oranges in my fridge, I decided to give this combination a go.

Some might say this is a completely whacky combination but trust me, with all those warm winter spices all the flavours worked really well!

Date orange Cake flavoured with banana and orange glaze!

I seldom eat sweets and this orange glaze is something delightful and addictive. If you are a sweet tooth, you can add it, however, since my dates were quite sweet next time I might skip it. The banana adds an incredible softness to this cake and gives a nice texture too!

Date orange cake with walnut and coffee, a combination made in heaven!

After baking this cake, I tried it with tea and coffee and I have got to say it pairs beautifully with coffee especially with Nespresso Caramelito! If you are tea drinker, I would suggest pairing it with earl grey tea. These are my favourite brands for teas. Whittard tea Chelsey, Tea Pigs and Harney & Sons.

If you are a sweet tooth and a baker then try these recipes: Banana date cake with lotus biscuit topping.

Date Cake and Orange honey cake.

So let’s get to the recipe!

Date orange cake

A delicious cake made of dates, orange and banana.

Course Cake, Dessert

Cuisine British

Keyword Date cake, Date orange cake

Prep Time 30 minutes

Cook Time 50 minutes

Total Time 1 hour 20 minutes

Servings

Author Gayatri Singh

Equipment

Oven
Stand mixer or hand mixer or whisk and a bowl

Ingredients

200 g plain flour all-purpose flour
120 g pitted dates chopped
1 tsp baking soda for dates
1 tsp baking powder
1 riped banana mashed
1 tsp orange zest
15 ml cointreau or orange juice
170 g unsalted butter softened
75 g white sugar please add 100g if you prefer this cake on a sweeter side.
50 g muscavado sugar
2 eggs
1/2 tsp each ginger, cinnamon and cardamom powder
1/4 tsp all-spice powder
1/4 tsp salt
1/4 cup cream
50 g chopped walnuts optional

Instructions

Place the pitted dates with soda in a bowl and add boiled water. Keep it for 10 minutes till the dates are nice and mushy. Transfer the bowl to the fridge to cool it dowm
Preheat the oven to 180C/350F. Coat the inside of the bundt tin/pan and keep it aside.
Mix the flour with baking powder, all the spices and salt.
Place butter and sugars in a standing mixer bowl and beat it with a paddle attachment till its fluffy. Add 1 egg at a time and continue to beat it till light.
Now add in the mashed banana, orange zest and cointreau. Mix it well.
Add the flour in 3 batches, and mix it combine. Do not over mix.
Add in the cream and mix it well.
Pour the batter in the coated tin. Sprinkle the walnuts on the top.
Bake it in the preheated oven for 40-45 minutes or till the toothpick inserted in the centre comes out clean.
After the cake is baked, let it cool in the pan for 10 minutes and then transfer it to wire rack.
If you desire then pour the orange juice and sugar glaze on the top. Serve with coffee.

For orange glaze:

Mix 1 cup powdered sugar in 2 tbsp orange juice. Whisk it well. Add 1/2 tsp melted butter and whisk it well. Pour the glaze on the cake before serving.

Gayatri Singh

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