Date and Walnut Cake

cheap, healthy, delicious.

Date and Walnut Cake

Ingredients

6oz self-raising flour

6oz sugar

6oz butter

3 eggs

Handful of finely chopped walnuts

Handful of finely chopped dates

Splash of strong, black coffee

Method

Preheat the oven to Gas 4

Grease and line a 9″ round cake tin (I use cake tin liners, they are cheap and guarantee you can remove your cake from the tin successfully!)

Put all of the ingredients into a food processor and blend until thoroughly mixed

OR… Cream the butter and sugar until pale and smooth. Add the eggs and mix thoroughly (don’t worry if it curdles). Fold in the flour, dates and walnuts. Finally, stir in the coffee

Spoon into the lined cake tin and bake for around 50 minutes. Keep an eye on it, if it is going brown too quickly, pop a double layer of tin foil over it.

It’s easiest to remove from the tin after it has cooled.