Vasanthi's Speciality Dates Cake

                                                                Dates Cake

 Ingredients:

Seedless honey dates – 1.9 cups

Tea bag -1

Water= 300 ml

Butter (Content with salt) – 1.9 cup

Brown sugar –  ½ lb

Sugar – ½ lb  ( You can use whole white sugar (1lb or 1.5 cup if u prefer less sugar) as well

Egg – 8 whole egg

Ravai – 1.5 cup

Wheat flour – 1/4 cup

Baking Soda = 1 tsp

Baking powder – ¾ tsp

Vanilla essence – 2 tsp

Cashews – ½ lb / 1/2 cup ( No limit for this, how much you add this item that gives taste, if you don’t like you can reduce this quantity)

Jathikkai (Nutmeg) crated – 1 tsp

Procedure:

1.Cut the dates into small small pieces.  
2.Boil the water and put the tea bag(2 tsp of tea powder)  in it.  Let the black tea warm and pour the black tea into the dates pieces.  Add the baking soda into it.  This will make the dates to be more soft.   Let it be there for 4-6 hours.  ( You can keep it for whole night too.  But definitely not less than 4 hours, but can be more than 6 hours).    
3. Now, take the butter, brown sugar, sugar and all the eggs in a bowl.  Beat very well till the butter melts nicely.    Keep this mixture separately. 
4.  Take another bowl and mix ravai, wheat flour and baking powder and mix nicely.  Keep this mixture separately.     
5. Now, add all these 3 mixture slowly into a big bowl (after 6 hours of soaking the dates).  Mix mix and mix and do it well till all 3 mixtures mix nicely.  
6. Add Vanilla essence, nutmeg  too with this mix. 
7. Then, pour this mixture into a cake tray and decorate with the cashews.  If you like mix the cashews into the above mix as well.  That’s your choice.   
8. Bake this mix for exactly 1 hour @ 350 F.    or Bake until toothpick comes clean when you pierce in the center of the cake. Now, tasty dates cake is ready for you to serve.  Enjoy the cake!