Recipe of Walnut Loaf Cake Recipe Uk

English Walnut Date Cake

You can swap the coconut oil for sunflower or a dairy spread and the walnuts for pecans or chopped nuts.

Recipe Summary English Walnut Date Cake

This has been a favorite of my husband's since I can long remember. His mother always manages to bake him one every year (she's 75) for Christmas...though she claims it's always his last.

Ingredients | Walnut Loaf Cake Recipe Uk

2 pounds dates, pitted and chopped

2 pounds English walnuts, coarsely chopped

1 cup white sugar

1 tablespoon baking powder

1 ¼ cups all-purpose flour

4 large egg yolks egg yolks

4 large egg whites egg whites

Directions

Preheat oven to 300 degrees F (150 degrees C). Grease and flour a 10 inch tube pan.

In a large bowl, combine dates, walnuts, sugar, baking powder and flour. Stir in egg yolks. In a large glass or metal mixing bowl, beat egg whites until stiff peaks form. Fold the whites into the fruit/nut mixture until no streaks remain. Spoon into prepared pan.

Bake in the preheated oven for 90 minutes. Let cool in pan for 10 minutes, then turn out onto a wire rack and cool completely.

Info | Walnut Loaf Cake Recipe Uk

prep: 30 mins cook: 1 hr 30 mins additional: 1 hr 10 mins total: 3 hrs 10 mins Servings: 16 Yield: 1 10 -inch tube pan

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