Arabian Date and Nut cake - Real Recipes from Mums

This Arabian Date and Nut Cake is a cake that full of flavour and crunch but is not too sweet.

Ingredients (makes 1 25 cm cake)

3/4 cup Strong hot coffee
1 cup Pitted dates ( chopped)
1/2 cup Walnuts ( chopped )
125 Grams Butter
1 cup sugar
2 eggs
1 3/4 cup plain flour
1/2 teaspoon bi carb of soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Method

Pre heat oven to 180 deg.. Lightly grease a 25 x 15 loaf tin and line with paper
Pour hot coffee over chopped dates and walnuts and allow to cool
Cream butter and sugar, add eggs and beat well
Sift in dry ingredients . Lastly mix in date and nut mixture and vanilla.
Pour into prepared pan and bake for 45- 50 minutes. Serve dusted with icing sugar

Notes

This Arabian Date and Nut Cake keeps quite well. I also found as it got a little drier near the end a little scraping of butter went well on it. Beautiful toasted too!

29 Comments

- - meedee said
  - 28 Jan 2023
    10:33 am
Sounds so very yummy. Great with a little bit of butter for morning tea

- - mom327228 said
  - 24 Nov 2019
    8:36 pm
Its very similar to fruit cake very nice recipe

- - cherz said
  - 22 Sep 2019
    8:34 pm
Yumm I am liking the sound of this ..the coffee gives it a added kick.

- - mom19782016 said
  - 05 May 2019
    3:56 pm
Love the ingredients! Sounds wonderful. Is it a traditional Arabian dish?

- - rachel1970 said
  - 02 May 2019
    7:50 pm
Ok, I think I had better make this this weekend, for Hubby and I to enjoy. Enough of the baking for the kids, time to look after our bellies and this fits the bill.

- - mom101628 said
  - 30 Apr 2019
    10:55 pm
What a wonderful recipe – thanks for sharing.

- - ~Loui~ said
  - 30 Apr 2019
    10:53 pm
I love date loaf, so this would be good too. Thanks

- - DaffyD said
  - 30 Apr 2019
    10:45 pm
Coffee dates and nuts can’t go wrong

- - ella12 said
  - 30 Apr 2019
    10:01 pm
I had something similar the other day. This looks lovely.

- - mom81879 said
  - 17 Mar 2019
    8:46 am
It looks so dark and decadent in the picture. I know I’m going to love eating this!

- - MrsA said
  - 04 Mar 2019
    8:40 am
This sounds interesting. I feel like i would like it.

- - mom62624 said
  - 20 Feb 2019
    2:10 pm
A delicious cake to enjoy & share together, thanks.

- - tessie said
  - 06 Feb 2019
    11:39 am
I’ll have to pass this recipe on to our cook at work. Everyone would love this for morning tea.

- - happymum2018 said
  - 04 Feb 2019
    10:30 am
The cake looks perfectly dark and rich would love to give this a try!!

- - rovermum said
  - 04 Feb 2019
    9:49 am
Ooh, this cake looks and sounds great. I love a date loaf, but the addition of the coffee and crunch in this recipe really appeals to me.
- LuckyMum replied
  
  04 Feb 2019 , 7:03 pm
  Thanks ! It’s yummy !
- - mom297125 said
  - 02 Feb 2019
    9:12 pm
Sounds delicious

- - cherz said
  - 27 Jan 2019
    2:13 pm
YES please looks and sounds delightful …thanks so much for sharing.
- LuckyMum replied
  
  31 Jan 2019 , 8:15 pm
  You’re welcome. Enjoy!
- - mom112023 said
  - 20 Jan 2019
    12:49 pm
Can’t wait to try this. Thanks for the recipe.

- - nealsq said
  - 19 Jan 2019
    10:56 pm
the only fruit i can have in anything is dates!

- - Mum2archer said
  - 15 Jan 2019
    3:05 pm
This sounds delicious! There’s something about fruits and nuts- they go together so well! Thanks for sharing