Dates Chocolate Cake - Whole Wheat & Eggless

Category: Baking
Preparation Time: 10 mins 
Cooking Time: 40 mins
Servings: 1 square cake

Dates Chocolate Cake

 Chocolate Cake with Dates is a tasty, healthy and moist cake, kids will surely like it:) We can also make cupcakes with the same batter and only the baking time varies. We can add our favorite dry fruits and nuts into it to make it more richer:)

Dates - Chocolate Cake

Ingredients:

• Wheat flour / Atta - 1 cup
• Black Dates, deseeded - 1 cup (around 20-25 nos) 
• Milk - 2 cups
• Brown Sugar - 1/2 cup
• Butter, melted /Olive Oil - 1/2 cup
• Cocoa Powder - 1/4 cup
• Toasted Walnuts, chopped - 3/4 cup (mix with 1 tsp of wheat flour - Optional)
• Baking soda - 1 tsp
• Vanilla extract - 1 tsp
• Salt - a pinch 
• Oil / Ghee - 1 tsp for greasing the pan
• Corn meal / Rava - 1 tsp

Method:

1. Soak the deseeded dates in 1 cup of warm milk for 2-3 hrs
2. Pre heat oven to 350°F
3. Grease the baking pans with ghee / oil and sprinkle some rava / cornmeal 
   
4. In a blender, add the soaked dates along with milk and grind to a smooth puree
   
5. To this add the remaining 1 cup of milk, Melted butter / Oil, Sugar, Vanilla extract and cocoa powder, blend well
   
6. In a sieve, take the wheat flour, baking soda and a pinch of salt, sieve them into a wide bowl
   
7. Add the blended puree into the flour mix and mix well
   
8. Fold in the toasted nuts, mix gently
   
   
   
   
9. Pour the batter into the greased pan
   
10. Bake for around 30 to 40 minutes (depend on the size of the pan), or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean 
    
11. Cool for about 10 minutes in the pan and then remove from pan to cooling rack
12. Once it became warm, slice and serve 
    
13. It tastes good when served chill too:)