English Walnut Date Cake recipe

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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

Nutrition Info

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
servingSize: -
sodium: 81.3 mg
sugar: 50 g
transFat: : -
unsaturatedFat: : -

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.

Recipe Yield

1 10 -inch tube pan

Recipe Note

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.

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