Sugar-less & Butter-less Dates Cake

Many of us these days are aware that most recipes made of all purpose flour involve ingredients that are bound to contain excess calories and lead to putting up those extra pounds, which does more harm than good. But not many of us can resist from having large bites of them. When you really cannot resist the urge, here is a safer bet. Sugar-less, butter-less, dates cake……yes, believe in your vision, you are reading it right J

With the festive time (Christmas and New Year) around, all the bakeries offer a varied variety of them. WAIT before you buy and indulge in them. Imagine a cake being made without butter and sugar, which are THE ingredients resulting in the voluminous calories, yet retaining the taste suiting your taste buds. When a cake like this can be made at home, do you really have to buy outside? Remember, you are going for the special offer of buying free extra calories too.

Ingredients

¾ cup whole wheat flour
¾ cup all purpose flour
1 cup chopped dates
1/3 cup + 2 tbsp honey
¾ cup milk
2 tbsp oil
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla essence
½ tsp lemon zest
½ tsp cinnamon powder
¼ tsp nutmeg powder
1/8 tsp ground cloves
1 ½ tsp baking powder
1/8 tsp salt
1/3 cup nuts

Method

• Preheat the oven at 180 deg. Prepare a cake pan and set aside.
• Add milk, oil, eggs, honey, vanilla essence in a mixing bowl and beat until well combined.
• Add 2 tbsp of flour in the nuts and mix until well coated.
• Mix all the dry ingredients and add to the wet mixture. Mix until just combine.
• Now, add in the nuts and just fold in everything together (do not over mix).
• Pour the batter into the prepared pan, smoothing the top with the back of a spoon.
• Bake for about 55-60 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Place on a wire rack to cool for about 15 minutes, and then gently remove the cake from the pan.