English Walnut Date Cake Recipe

  Cakes

Ingredients:
Makes 1 - 10 inch tube pan (16 servings).
Printed from Allrecipes, Submitted by Lynda McCormick

2 pounds dates, pitted and chopped
2 pounds English walnuts, coarsely chopped
1 cup white sugar
1 tablespoon baking powder
1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
4 egg yolks
4 egg whites


Directions:
Directions
1. Preheat oven to 300 degrees F (150 degrees C). Grease and flour a 10 inch tube pan.
2. In a large bowl, combine dates, walnuts, sugar, baking powder and flour. Stir in egg yolks. In a large glass or metal mixing bowl, beat egg whites until stiff peaks form. Fold the whites into the fruit/nut mixture until no streaks remain. Spoon into prepared pan.
3. Bake in the preheated oven for 90 minutes. Let cool in pan for 10 minutes, then turn out onto a wire rack and cool completely.




English Walnut Date Cake
 

Copyright © 2007 Epicurean.com
All rights reserved