"SLC-S24/W4 | Date Cake"

Greetings and welcome to my blog. It’s another exciting cake class and today I made date cake.

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.

I prepared date cake following the recipe given in the class:

Ingredients:

• Flour 75g
• Sugar 75g
• Butter 75g
• Baking powder 1/2 tsp
• Bicarbonate of soda 1/2 tsp
• Vanilla flavor 1tsp
• Dates 150g
• Eggs 1
• Tea 100ml

Procedure

Step 1: I removed the pits of the date and put into a bowl. I added warm tea to it.

Step 2: I added bicarbonate of soda to it, covered it and allowed it to sit for about ten minutes.

Step 3: I Prepared a clean bowl and added butter and sugar to it. I turned them together until it’s lighter in colour.

Step 4: I added the eggs to the butter and sugar mixture and stirred again until it’s thoroughly mixed. I added the vanilla flavour and stirred

Step 5: I sieved the flour and added baking powder to it. And added the mixture of the flour and baking powder to the butter mixture and folded them in together until it was thoroughly mixed together.

Step 6: I then added the mixture of the dates and tea to the batter and mixed again.

Step 7: I prepared my cake pan by greasing it with butter and added the cake mixture into it.

Step 8: I added the pieces of the cashew nuts on top of the cake

Step 9: I prepared the improvised oven by preheating it and put the cake into it and covered. I allowed it to bake at a low heat until the cake was ready.

Here is final presentation of my date cake.

List the prices of the ingredients you used in making the recipe, one by one.
These are my ingredients and the prices in steem;

Ingredients	Amount in steem
Flour	4 steem
Butter	4 steem
Sugar	2 steem
Eggs	2 steem
Tea	1 steem
Dates	1 steem
Baking powder	1 steem
Bicarbonate of soda	1 steem
Vanilla flavor	3 steem
Cashew nuts	2 steem
Total	21 steem

What difficulties did you encounter while making this recipe?

I didn’t encounter any difficulties while making this date cake. I followed the procedure given in the class step by step as was instructed and I got to the final result.

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

• Flour: The flour is the ingredient that provides the Structure, the texture and also serves as the base for the cake.
• ⁠Sugar: The sugar comes in handy as the agent of sweetness, it also makes for tenderness and the browning of the cake.
• Egg: The egg is the binding agent. It helps to add richness, moisture and also has leavening properties.
• ⁠Baking powder: The baking powder is the leavening agent that helps the cake to rise well.
• Vanilla flavor: The vanilla flavor helps to enhance the general or overall aroma and flavor of the cake.
• ⁠Butter: Butter helps to contribute moisture, makes the cake very tender and also gives flavor to the cake.
• Date: The date added to the sweetness of the cake and also the it gave it a special taste.
• cashew nuts: It added to the appetizing g look of the cake as a garnishing ingredients and also added nutritional value as nuts is a good source of healthy fats and vitamins.
• Bicarbonate of soda: it acted as an agent to soften the dates so that it can easily blend into the cake mixture and also enhanced the taste of the dates and the overall taste of the cake.
• Tea: The tea helped as the liquid agent to soften the dates and it also added flavour to the cake and contributed to the overall moisture content of the cake.

These are the ingredients used in making this date cake and they all had their unique functions. The combination of all these ingredients in the right proportions helps to Create a cake that is delicious, fluffy and moist.

Thanks for reading through.