SLC-S24/W4 // Date Cake"

Greetings to everyone!!!

I hope you all are good and doing well. Today I'm here again to be a part of this amazing course task SLC-S24 W4:Date Cake. I tried this cake first time and how delicious was it!!! I can't tell you in words. My kids don't like dates so they all were stopping me to make it, they all were saying your are going to waste material. But I have to participate in this contest so I tried it but the result turn out to be unexpected and my cake was super delicious with perfect sponged. Whenever I make cake my youngest daughter always with me in excitement and for learning but last night I made cake alone so i tired as not getting energy from my daughter. But when the cake came out from oven everyone was pleased to see the cake ,its delicious smell was spreading in my home . And you don't trust they all finished it within 5min. My tiredness gone vanished. I think it was the best cake that I had made yet. So I would like to thank @m-fdo for sharing this unique and delicious recipe with us.

Let's move towards the task.

1 . Make the given recipe in detail with step by step pictures. Include your name tag with the date at the final presentation of the recipe. ⭐️(6 Mark )⭐️

I have followed the same recipe that teacher given in the course so ingredients are same as in post bit i used almond instead of cashews.

Ingredients:

Ingredients👇🏽
🔳Butter 125g
🔳Sugar 125g
🔳Flour 125g
🔳Eggs 2
🔳Dates 250g
🔳Warm tea 160 ml
🔳Almond 25g
🔳Baking powder 1 tsp
🔳Vanilla 1 tsp
🔳Bi carbonate soda 1/2 tsp

Making:

Step1:

• Take clean date of given amount in a bowl and remove pits from the middle. Add 160ml hot tea over dates and add bi carbonate soda in it . Soak date proper in the mixture and cover the lid for q0 minutes.

Step2:

• Add butter and powder sugar in a bowl then beat it until mixture becomes creamy.

Step3:

• Add two eggs in a bowl and beat it well. Eggs should be added one by one in mixture to mix it well.

Step4;

• Add Baking powder to the flour and stevie them to the mixture in bowl. Add Vanilla essence to the mixture. Mix all ingredients by cut and fold method don't over beat the mixture.

Step5:

• Now, add dates and tea mixture to the cake baitter and mixed it well

Step6:

• Grease baking pan and pour the cake mixture in it tap it twice and put it in preheated oven at 175°C for 20-25min .

Final Presentation:

2 .List the prices of the ingredients you used in making the recipe, one by one.

Price List:

Ingredients	price in PKR	in steem
Dates	250	5
Tea	25	0.5
Almond	250	5
Eggs	40	4.5
All purpose flour	90	2
Sugar	90	2.5
Butter	200	5
Baking powder	22	0.5
Vanilla essence	20	0.5

3 .What difficulties did you encounter while making this recipe?

Alhumdulilah today's cake was super delicious and I tried it first time. I follow the recipe exactly give in course and don't face any difficulty. All steps are clear in the recipe. Any one can make this delicious cake perfectly by following recipe. I was quite confused before making as kids were not agree on date cake but result was excellent. I used almond instead of cashews and used less amount of sugar because I was making it just for myself .

4 .Explain the importance of each of the ingredients you used in making this cake.

Date Cake has main ingredient date with other cake ingredients like flour ,butter , sugar, eggs and all ingredients provide delicious taste and different food nutrients.

Dates:

Dates are very nutritious. It provides carbohydrates that are fuel of body , small amount of protein & provides dietary Fiber . Good source of potassium, magnesium, copper, and manganese are present in dates.

Butter:

Butter is also a nutritious food. It provides mainly fats, vitamin E, A,B12 and D , different minerals like calcium, iron,magnesium in very samall amount.

Egg:

Eggs are included in super food. It has great source of protein, different vitamins like D,B2,A,Eand B6. And other like coline ,biotin are present in it. It contain different minerals like calcium, selenium, iron and zinc. It contain fats and cholesterol.

Sugar:

It not only gives delicious taste to cake but also satisfying our craving but it should be consumed in appropriate portions. Thay are totally carbohydrates and provide energy to our body. High amount of sugar may cause some health issues like diabetes and obesity.

Flour:

It is used as staple food in our country and provides fiber, carbohydrates , sugar and protein and many vitamins and minerals to our body.

Thats all from my side and I have tried to compiled all the task. At the end I would like to invite @roohiasif99, @sualeha and @uzma4882 for the contest.

Best regards

@suboohi