SEc SE24 WK 4 || Dates cake ||

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Welcome to my blog I am @sualeha from Pakistan it's pleasures for me to participate in 4th week cake challenge in season 24 with my Dates cake .well guys I am not know the date cake recipe even never taste it before,it's my first experience of making dates cake at home ,it's possible only by our lovely teacher who taught every week new cakes tips and techniques with well elaborate recipes step by step procedure,made easy for learners,the images also helped us to understand the methods .well guys without ado let's move on how my cake turned out with you ... By first I share ingredients list then step by step procedure.

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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 baked the Dates cake first time but the perfect result I got easily alhudulliah I exactly followed the course recipe and the turned out is fantastic my hubby really liked this cake any ways let get started baking ...
By first I share the complete ingredients list with expect quantities and images first ....

Ingredients list

S.no	Items	Quantity	Images
1	Dates	250 gm
2	Tea	160 ml
3	Butter	125 gm
3	All purpose flour	125gm
4	Sugar	125 gm
5	Baking powder	1 tbs
6	Eggs	2
7	vanilla essence	few drops
8	cashew nuts	50 GM

Procedure step by step

Step 1

By first I washed the dates and removed pits from all dates one by one ,cut in fine pieces.add half tbs of bi carbonate and hot tea in the dates and covered for ten minutes.

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When I add the tea the very beautiful striking brown colour formed it will give the cake very beautiful dark shade to our date cake .

Step :2

I took an other clean bowl 🥣 added butter and sugar in required quantities and blended by hand beater with soft hand .Make sure incorporated the sugar and butter very well now moved on other step

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Step :3

Added eggs one by one and vanilla essence few drops in bowl and beated very well .I used hand blender for beaten the eggs for smooth and fluffy texture, because I want sponge and soft cake .

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Step :4

Now I sift the flour added baking powder and incorporated in the sugar egg and butter mixture with cut and fold method.

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After that I added dates and tea mixture in cake batter and mixed it well .

Step :5

Now prepared a cake tin for that grease and dust flour on cake pan and shifted all batter in tin and tap to remove sir bubbles.

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Step :6

I put the cake tin in pre heated oven ,I pre heated the over at 180 degrees for 30 minutes and bakes the cake for 30 to 40 minutes,in between checked by tooth pic method . sprinkle fine chopped cashew nuts on the top of the batter .

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Final presentation

When the yummy aroma spreading out fromy oven it's indicate that cake was done,I offered the oven and let it cool and covered it from kitchen cloth till it will cool .

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When the cake completely cool re mold it and cut it in small pieces that easy to served .

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So guys it's final look of my Dates cake ,it's looks very nice the attractive dark brown colour cake simply waooo ,it's not only tasty 🤤 😋 good for health point of view due to dates .On my recommendation must try out I am you and your family will love it ❤️.

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

Ingredients	price in PKR	in steem
Dates	200Rs	4.5 Steem
Tea	22 RS	0.5steem
Cashew nut	200 rupees	4.5Steem
Eggs	40	4.5Steem
All purpose flour	90	2 steem
Sugar	90	2.5 steem
Butter	200	4.t5 steem
Baking powder	22	0.5steem
Vanilla essence	20	0.5steem

What difficulties did you encounter while making this recipe? ⭐️⭐️

Well as I said above it's my first experience for making data cake but luckily I never faced any big difficulty during whole procedure but yes for bio carbonated not in my kitchen so I searched and bought from market but over all very delicious innovation in my cake recipe book ,I love to learn new and unique recipes of cake from cake challenge from teacher @m-fdo.

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

Well home made cakes always yummy,fresh and super hygiene ,I preferred Baking items like kids lunch boxes and evening snacks made at home it's were pocket friendly and ideal for paries and gathering,all ingredients we used differently in good grades and fresh . Let's share some ingredients importance one by one that used in cake .

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Dates

Date is a great source of iron ,high in fiber so it's good for digestion.Very delicious natural sweetener ,had antioxident properties ,good for stronger bones ,control low blood pressure and decrease the risks of heart attack.Over all used as a snacks,in baking and different drinks and smoothies.

Butter

Butter rich in fat and soluble vitamins ,it's a good source of vitamin A ,D,E and K that essential for growing kids .All dairy products gives us energy and good fats so really good for all age group.

Flour

Whole grain flour provides us carbohydrates ,it's provides us fiber , vitamins and minerals.In Pakistan our break fast , dinner never considered completed with our wheat flour,it's provides instant energy to our body and we felt filler longer .Fine flour having high amount of carbohydrates and less in fiber so used in limits.

Eggs 🥚🥚

Eggs are high quality source of vitamin , protein is good for repairing and building up muscles of our body .Having vitamins D ,B 12 and the minerals.In this recipe we added eggs means good amount of protein we got from this cake .The balance amount of eggs maintain our daily protein requirements.

Sugar

Sugar is a source of energy in our body ,natural sugar is good for all our health ,but make sure not used in excess , otherwise health regarding issues like obesity and diabetes risk used every thing in moderation you never face trouble in life .

In short all ingredients are good enough for our health but used in balance because if you took it alot weight gained issues may be generated .

So guys I hope you are all like my participation post ,to finish I would like to invite my friends @suboohi ,@roohiasif99,@lirvic ,@dasudi and @afzalqamar to participate in yummy and healthy varieties in cake challenge.See you soon in new week till then take care ❣️ ❣️.

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