Dates, Fruit and Nut Cake

This is a yummy moist and healthy cake, mainly fruits and nuts, with almost no butter and less sugar.

2 ½ cups of Iranian dried dates
2/3 cup dried raisins
2/3 cup dried currants
1 ripened banana
1/3 cup of mandarin vodka
1/3 cup milk
50g raw sugar
70g walnut meal
70g almond meal
20g wholemeal self raising flour
4 eggs, separated
1 egg white
1 tablespoon of butter

Preheat oven to 160deg
Grease the sides of a 20cm cake tin and sprinkle with flour, line the bottom with baking paper.
Mash the banana, set aside.
Mix the walnut meal and almond meal together with all the dried fruits (fruit and “meal” mix)
Ingredients should all be at room temperature

Whisk butter and 4 egg yolks, adding sugar progressively, till mixture becomes pale and creamy .
Then add the mashed banana and whisk together to blend.
Stir in mandarin vodka, milk.
Fold in the fruit and “meal” mix. Then fold in the self raising flour.
Whisk all the egg whites till it becomes like a white foam that can fold over when lifted.
Add the whisked egg whites to the rest of cake batter in 3 batches and fold gently till it combines. Do not overfold or the “gas” that leavenes the cake will burst.

Bake in oven for 35 minutes.

Serve with pure cream.


Bon Appetit!