DATE CAKE

 

 Original recipe By Carmelita Vithanage

500 gr. chopped pitted dates

 
1 cup boiling water

250 gr. semolina

1 teaspoon baking soda

2 teaspoon baking powder

1/4 teaspoon salt

250 gr.butter

200 gr.sugar

1 teaspoon vanilla,rose & almond essence

4 eggs

100 gr.cashewnut, raisins,pum. preserve, candid peel

Stir together dates,boiling water& baking soda.keep for 2 hours.

Sieve flour three times with

baking powder & salt on to a paper to mix well.

1.Cream butter & slightly roasted rulang together in a basin.

2. Cream Sugar and egg yolks together (seperate mixing bowl).

3. Beat the egg whites to a foam. (seperate mixing bowl).

mix all to semolia & butter mix with a wooden spoon. Add chopped cashewnut and others

 cooled date-water mixure alternately to beaten mixure, each addition till just combined. Add all

essences mix well. Bake in 160 oven for 60 minutes. It depand on the oven use