"SLC-S24/W4 | Date Cake"

Today, in the fourth week of Steemit Challenge 24, I will be participating in @m-fdo Ma'ams' "SLC-S24/W4" - Date Cake Competition".I hope everyone enjoys it.

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Date cake is the first time I have heard of it. I have never heard of it in cakes before, but I like dates a lot, so I think a date cake will be interesting. I will make this cake for the first time today. I have already taken a lot of ideas after the recipe you gave.

Below I am mentioning the ingredients for making the cake.

• Butter 120 grams
• Flour 120 grams
• Sugar 120 grams
• Baking powder 1 teaspoon
• Baking soda 1 teaspoon
• Dates 200 grams
• Vanilla essence
• Egg 2 pieces
• Hot tea 150 grams
• Cashew nuts 40gm

Below I will show the recipe step by step.

First I cleaned the dates nicely and poured them into Warm tea and I added a spoonful of baking powder there. Then I mixed it and kept it separately.

I broke 2 eggs in another clean pot and kept mixing them well with butter.

After mixing them, I added flour, sugar and baking soda and mixed them well for a few minutes. Because usually, sugar takes a while to mix, I mixed it in.

Then I noticed the date mixture with the previous tea, the dates were not mixed well so I mixed it with the help of a blender and added it to the other mixed ingredients and there I added vanilla essence.

I mixed it for the last time and in another clean pot, I put the mixed ingredients there with tissue paper.

I added cashew nuts to the mixed ingredients and baked in the oven for 10 minutes at 175 Celsius and after baking, I put the cake in the oven for 40 minutes at 175 Celsius.

After 40 minutes, when the date cake was nicely done, I cooled the cake and started removing the tissue paper from the cake. I cut the cake beautifully into pieces and took a picture of it by writing my name on a piece of paper.

There are several ingredients needed to make a cake, I usually buy these ingredients from the market, but I will make a nice chart with the specific price list of these ingredients, where I will list the prices in Steem and Dollars along with our country's currency so that it is easier for Steemians in our country and other Steemians to understand the price list.

• It cost me 533.2 taka in my country's currency, 28.82 according to Steem price, and 4.3 dollars according to the dollar rate to make the cake.

Since I was introduced to this date cake today, I was scared to make it for the first time, but I was very confident in myself because the recipe for the cake was like a normal cake. It is currently the rainy season in our country, so it was difficult to get some of the ingredients from the market.

Also, when I added dates and baking powder to the hot tea, the dates did not soften properly, so I mixed it with the help of a blender. Removing the tissue paper from the cake was a little more difficult than on other days. And the biggest thing is that this is the first time I am going to make it, so I was able to do it with joy.

• Butter
  Butter is known to be a very important ingredient in making cakes. It affects the taste, structure and texture of the cake. Which helps in making the cake perfectly.

• Flour
  There is no cake without flour, so the importance of flour is the most important in making cakes. It plays a particularly important role in determining the texture and density of the cake. Also, the gluten in the flour maintains the structure of the cake.

• Sugar
  Sugar not only makes the cake sweet, but it also enhances the taste of the cake and makes the cake soft. Also, sugar can retain moisture, which makes the cake soft and fresh for a long time.

• Egg
  Usually, eggs are a very effective ingredient in raising cakes. Eggs enhance the taste of the cake and hold other ingredients, so eggs are also called versatile ingredients.

• Vanilla Essence
  Vanilla Essence adds a fragrant and tasteless flavor. This makes the cake more attractive. This aroma of the cake makes the cake perfect.

• Baking powder
  Baking powder was used to soften the dates. It is also very important in the cake, it helps in swelling and softening the cake.

• Baking soda
  Baking soda helps in improving the color of the cake. It reacts with the acid to form bubbles which soften the cake.

• Dates
  Since it is a date cake, this ingredient is very important. It gives the full date flavor and makes it sweeter along with sugar.

• Cashew nuts
  Cashew nuts enhance the flavor of the cake and make the cake look beautiful, nutritious and attractive.