Date Cake

"This recipe was my grandmother's and the smell of this cake baking is the smell of Christmas to our family! It is a very dense, heavy cake, almost more like a bread, and loaded with dates, cherries and nuts. We usually use home-grown black walnuts in ours! Do not be intimidated by the number of steps it takes to make this cake-it actually goes together very quickly and is well worth the trouble."
 
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Ready In:
1hr 30mins
Ingredients:
12
Yields:
1 cake
Serves:
12
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ingredients

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directions

  • Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
  • Sift flour and baking powder together.
  • In a separate bowl, cream butter and sugar.
  • Put dates in a large mixing bowl and stir baking soda into them.
  • Pour 2 cups boiling water over dates.
  • Add butter and sugar mixture and stir well.
  • Add egg yolks and stir.
  • Coat nuts with some of the flour and then add them to the mixture.
  • Add the flour and spices and mix well.
  • Last add the egg whites and stir. (Note: you do not have to beat the egg whites to a stiff peak before adding; just beat them until blended).
  • Bake in a greased loaf or tube pan (angel food pan) for 60 minutes or until toothpick inserted into the middle comes out clean. If you use a standard loaf pan, this will make two loaves.

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