English Walnut Date Cake by HoneeBee

English Walnut Date Cake

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Published 4th Jul 2021

This has been a favorite of my husband's since I can long remember. His mother always manages to bake him one every year (she's 75) for Christmas...though she claims it's always his last.

English Walnut Date Cake Ingredients

  • 2 pounds dates, pitted and chopped
  • 2 pounds English walnuts, coarsely chopped
  • 1 cup white sugar
  • 1 tablespoon baking powder
  • 1 ¼ cups all-purpose flour
  • 4 large egg yolks egg yolks
  • 4 large egg whites egg whites

English Walnut Date Cake Cook Instructions

Prep30m
Cook1h30m
Ready In2h70m
Servings1 10 -inch tube pan
  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 Nutritions

  • Calories: 632.6 calories
  • Carbohydrate: 70.7 g
  • Cholesterol: 51.2 mg
  • Fat: 38.4 g
  • Fiber: 8.6 g
  • Protein: 12.6 g
  • SaturatedFat: 3.9 g
  • Sodium: 81.3 mg
  • Sugar: 50 g

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