Date and honey cake recipe

[changeling]

We celebrated Hethert's birthday tonight. I made birthday cake. It's my own recipe. I wanted to make rosewater and cardamom cake, but I didn't have any rosewater.

I actually made half quantities from this recipe, and I used two small decoratively shaped cake tins – one a heart shape (to celebrate her role as a goddess of beauty) and a star shape (as one of her titles is "Mistress of Heaven").

It was delicious. And it smelt like madeleines.



Date and honey cake

1 C self-raising wholemeal flour (or 1 C plain wholemeal flour and 2 tsp baking powder)
1/4 C pitted and chopped dates (about 4)
1/2 C honey
2 tB margarine (I used Nuttelex)
1/4 tsp each ground cardamom and cinnamon
oat milk until it looks right (about 1/4 to 1/2 a cup)

Set the oven to 180°C (356°F).

Sift the flour, baking powder and spices in a mixing bowl. (OK, I never bother with sifting wholemeal flour, but whatever rocks your boat.) Toss the date pieces in the flour to coat – date pieces are really sticky and this means that you'll get more than one big datey ball in the middle of the mixture.

Combine the honey and margarine in a small saucepan and warm gently until the margarine is melted. Add the honey and margarine and stir to combine. Slowly add the milk until you get a consistency slightly thicker than pancake batter. Pour into a greased cake tin and place in the oven. Bake until a skewer inserted in the cake tin comes out clean (I'd guess 15–20 minutes).

Comments

[youraugustine.livejournal.com]

Wholemeal flour = whole wheat flour? (wow, "whole" so does not look like a word right now *stares at it*) or something else? And can it be made substituting something else for the dates? *curious*

[delirieuse.livejournal.com]

In this case, yes. You can also have wholemeal spelt flour and so forth ...

But yes. Wholemeal = whole wheat.

Of course you can sub something else for the dates. I'd suggest a dried fruit of some sort, with a moderately sweet flavour (don't put in 1/4 C of candied peel! It'd taste awfully bitter). You could probably use sultanas or dried apricots or something (yuk, yuk, yuk).

[youraugustine.livejournal.com]

. . . I wonder what candied ginger would taste like.

(Himself is awfully fond of honey. I am awfully not. Compromises like cakes are a good thing, and I thank you for sharing the recepie.)

[delirieuse.livejournal.com]

Good, I'd guess. I might put a little powdered ginger in - instead of the cardamom, say.

(You're welcome. :)

[sannion.livejournal.com]

Dua Hethert!

[delirieuse.livejournal.com]

Dua Hethert!

[watersusurrus.livejournal.com]

YUM!

Dua Hethert!

[delirieuse.livejournal.com]

Dua Hethert!

[dorukai.livejournal.com]

Utterly gorgeous pic.
Has it been modified in photoshop or anything?

[delirieuse.livejournal.com]

Thank you.

No, it's as is. I didn't even fiddle with it at all.

[dorukai.livejournal.com]

Impressive! And yummy/spiritual.