My Special Eid cake
Eid Cake
This is not a healthy recipe, but I think ‘life is too short to not eat cake’. I believe so long as you practice moderation and make intelligent food choices there is no reason you have to completely give up the things that make you happy. For me CAKE MAKES ME HAPPY and there will never come a day when I don’t eat cake.
This is the cake I make every year for Eid, it’s easy to make and everyone loves it. It’s essentially my version of a sticky toffee pudding sponge cake.
For the Cake:
Ingredient:
275 g chopped dates, pitted
400 ml water
2 tsp baking soda
225g butter
125 g soft brown sugar
3 eggs
1 tbsp. of vanilla essence
420 g plain flour
1 tbsp. baking powder
½ tbsp. ground ginger
½ tbsp. of cinnamon
1 tsp salt
Method
Preheat the oven to 180°C, and prepare your cake tin by greasing it with butter or oil.
Place dates, water, and 2 tsp of baking soda in a pan and bring it to bubble, then let it simmer for 5 minutes and leave to cool.
Once cool place the mixture in a food processer or blender and blend (this is optional)
In a bowel mix the sugar and butter together until light and fluffy, then add the eggs one at a time and add the vanilla. This is the wet ingredients
In a separate bowel mix all the other ingredients together. This is the dry ingredient
Now mix half of the dry ingredient with the wet ingredient and half of the date mix, once this is mixed well add the second half of dry ingredients and remainder of the date mix.
Put the batter in a tin of your choice and bake for 50 minets.
Once it's finished let it cool in the tin.
For the topping
Ingredients
150g of butter
100g of soft brown sugar
150ml of double cream
100g of pecan nuts
Method
place the butter in a pan and melt
once butter is completely melted add sugar and stir until its melted with the butter
when the sugar and butter have melted together add the double cream and stir until it's all incorporated
let the sauce cool for 10 mins, while it's cooling chop 100g of pecan nuts
When the cake has cooled pour over the sauce and top with the chopped nuts.
To see this recipe in action watch this video below
