Dates Cake Recipe
Cake  /  May 7, 2018

Dates Cake Recipe

by Zarnain Zainab

Dates Cake Recipe

If until now you did not come across my experimentation of cakes, then I am telling you how I experiment with my simple batter of cake with different fruits and have baked some lovely cakes for you. Please check the recipes of;

In this post, today I will show you how to bake dates cake recipe at home with ease.

Ingredients Dates Cake Recipe

  • All-purpose flour 1 cup
  • Sugar 1 cup
  • Eggs 3
  • Oil ½ cup
  • Baking powder 1 teaspoon
  • Milk ½ cup
  • Vanilla essence few drops
  • Chopped dates ½ cup
  • Yellow food color (optional) few drops.
  • Powdered sugar to garnish
  • Chocolate syrup to garnish

Direction Dates Cake Recipe

  1. Grease a baking pan or line it with parchment paper and set aside.
  2. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees.
  3. In a large glass or steel bowl beat eggs with sugar until fluffy.
  4. Add oil and beat again for couple of minutes.
  5. Pour milk, and add vanilla essence and food color and beat again.
  6. Sieve flour, baking powder together in a bowl, slowly add little quantity of flour at a time in egg mixture, and beat.
  7. Once you are done with, flour add the chopped dates and using a spatula or spoon mix gently. Pour the mixture in greased pan, bake in preheated oven/pateela (wok or pot)/pressure cooker or rice cooker on180 for 40-60min, or until the skewer will come out clean, check after 30 mins.
  8. When the Dates Cake Recipe will be baked properly, let it cool for few minutes, then remove on rake leave for 15-20 minutes, and then slice with a knife.
  9. Garnish, as you like. I dusted some icing sugar and poured some chocolate syrup for extra punch of sweetness, I like sweet cakes. Enjoy Dates Cake Recipe with hot cup of tea or coffee.

Note How to make Date Cake recipe at Home?

  • If you want less sugar then reduce the specified quantity of sugar as dates are sweet as well.So
  • me nuts can also be added in the batter to make Dates cake with nuts or Date nuts cake recipe.
  • If you want to prepare whole wheat cake then check  Whole wheat date cake recipe

Author: Zarnain Zainab

I have completed my Master in Botany and now doing Master of Education. I am a passionate girl who loves to cook and bake and share my recipes with others.
I am a member of many facebook groups where I upload my recipes and pictures, many try my recipe and always give me good feedback.
In many food groups of Pakistan, I am the trendsetter of baking fruit flavored cakes.
Now, I see many ladies following my footsteps, experimenting with fruit cake recipes and sharing their experiences and recipes.