Date Cake

Ingredients

  • 500 gram chopped pitted dates
  • 1 cup boiling water
  • 250 gram semolina ( rulang )
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 2 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
  • 250 gram Pelwatte Butter
  • 200 gram sugar
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla,rose & almond essence
  • 4 eggs
  • 100 gram cashew nuts, raisins and pumpkin preserve

Method

Stir together dates, boiling water& baking soda. Sat aside for 2 hours.

Sieve flour three times with baking powder & salt on to a paper to mix well.

Cream Pelwatte butter & slightly roasted rulang together in a basin.

Cream Sugar and egg yolks together (separate mixing bowl).

Beat the egg whites to a foam. (separate mixing bowl).

Mix all to rulang & butter mix with a wooden spoon. Add chopped cashew nuts, raisins and pumpkin preserve.Stir in cooled date-water mixture alternately to beaten the mixture,until each addition has combined.

Add all the essences and mix well.

Bake in 160 oven for 45 minutes.