Date and Walnut Loaf
Deliciously moist loaf cake, packed with sweet dates and crunchy walnuts. This Date and Walnut loaf is a perfect tea time treat.
Ingredients
- 1½ Cup Plain Flour See Notes
- 250 g Dates (pitted)
- 90 g Butter ( Melted)
- 1 Cup Walnuts
- ⅓ Cup Brown Sugar
- ½ tsp Bicarb Soda
- 3 tsp Baking Powder
- ¼ tsp Salt
- 1 Egg
- 250 ml Water
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 180 ℃ . Grease and line the base and sides of a loaf tin (approximately 12cm x 30cm or 4.5 x 12 inches).
- Chop the dates and put them in a bowl. Add bicarb soda and pour boiling water over them. Set them aside while we prepare the cake mixture.
- In a mixing bowl add brown sugar and melted butter. Using a whisk mix them well. Add egg and mix again until well combined.
- Sift over plain flour, baking powder and salt.
- Using a wooden spoon or spatula sir date mixture. The dates would have broken down by now. Breakdown any large chunks with spoon.
- Pour the date mixture into cake mixture along with roughly chopped walnuts. Reserve some walnuts to sprinkle over the top.
- Mix the batter until everything is combined well. Pour the mixture into the prepared tin.
- Sprinkle the reserved walnuts over. Bake the loaf cake for 45 minutes or until skewer comes out clean.
- Allow the loaf to cool down for 10 minutes and then turn it over the wire rack to cool down completely.
Notes
- You can use self-raising flour. Omit baking powder of you are using self-raising flour.
- You can swap walnuts with pecans or skip them if making nut free version.