You can make it either way but your whole family is going to love this easy, healthy, egg-free, no-beater Dates and Cashew nut cake! What do you know? It came out amazing and delicious as before and I feel less guilty too!ĭoesn't this look amazing and tempting? Just make sure to chop the dates as fine as possible big chunks will tend to make the cake crumble and break apart wherever there are date chunks!Īnd remember, all whole wheat cakes will be a bit denser than with using all-purpose flour or maida! But no compromise on taste I promise you! I used only whole wheat flour (1 1/2 cups total), reduced the oil a bit (to 1/2 cup from 3/4 cup), reduced plain sugar (3/4 cup) to 1/2 cup of jaggery powder and stirred in sunflower seeds along with cashew bits.Īs whole wheat flour tends to make a super thick batter as compared to all-purpose flour, I stirred in about 1/4 cup extra water to make the batter easy to spread in pan as well as make a lighter cake. I have been revisiting my old recipes and trying to make them more healthy by using jaggery (unrefined cane sugar) instead of plain sugar and whole wheat flour wherever possible and I tried with this one too. The best part of making this cake is, it is eggless (egg free) and needs only a bowl and fork or spoon to mix (no beaters!) and fold and can be prepared in just about 1 hour. For all-purpose or maida flour, I substituted half of it with whole wheat flour to make it more healthy. I was out of walnuts and so used cashew nuts instead. This recipe of Dates and Cashew nut cake is a slight variation of a cake recipe I had got from a good friend of mine from Delhi, who used to make an amazing date and walnut cake!! On our last trip recently, I picked up 2 of them and we loved it so much, they were gone in a week!!!Ĭraving for some more, and with lots of dates and cashew nuts in the pantry, I decided to make a similar cake to satisfy my sweet tooth!! During trips to Salem, India (my hometown), on our way back, we normally stop at a bakery in Gobichettipalayam, between Salem and Mysore, to pick up some savory snacks and cakes. In our house, we love plum or fruit cakes we get during Christmas. Dates and Cashew nut cake is a quick and easy, super moist, soft and delicious, healthy egg free cake, dotted with bits of nutritious date and cashew pieces throughout, made totally vegan (with no butter or milk products) and with whole wheat flour used in the batter.
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