This is almost the exact recipe from The Whitewater Cooks Cookbook (At Home). The only change I made was adding a tablespoon of cinnamon because – I’m a cinnamon lover.
Cake Ingredients:
- 12oz pitted dates
- 1.5 C water
- 3 C flour
- 2 t baking powder
- 2 t baking soda
- 2 t ground cardamom
- 1 t ground allspice
- 1 T cinnamon
- 1/2 t salt
- 1/2 C butter
- 1 2/3 C brown sugar
- 4 eggs
- 2 t vanilla
Sauce Ingredients:
- 2 C whipping cream
- 1/2 C butter
- 1 1/2 sugar
- 2 T Rum (or brandy)
- 1/4 C pistachios shelled and chopped (I omitted this as I didn’t have them)
Instructions:
- Preheat Oven to 350F
- Prepare 10 round cake pan – **ok – so I always make this in the Wilton loaf pans – these ones. You can portion control a bit better – I just like the way it serves better – but whatev’s – there is no saving calories with this anyway – eat the fucking cake and enjoy it.
- Combine Dates and Water – simmer for 10 minutes (to soften dates) – use a hand blender or nutribullet or whatever you have to blend the mixture until its thick and smooth – so no chunks.
- Cream butter, brown sugar until light and fluffy
- Throw the eggs in and beat them up – then add the vanilla
- Now be gentle (this is hard for me) – add the dry ingredients slowly and alternate that with the date/water mixture until everything is nice and smooth.
- Pour it in the pan (don’t forget to grease ‘er up – that would suck) – bake it 50 minutes – or until a toothpick comes out clean when you give it a little poke.
Sauce Instructions… I always forget – because I really only make this once a year… I would like to try this with brown sugar instead of white sugar. I don’t LOVE the sauce with the white sugar – but sometimes I actually follow recipes haha… but if you want – try brown you’d likely need a bit less of that. Its sweet either way. But its supposed to be.
- Pour 1 cup cream, all the butter and sugar into a pot and stir constantly until sugar is dissolved. Then turn the heat up and boil (don’t let it burn – keep stirring) until it thickens a bit – about 10 minutes.
- When its the right consistency – take it off, add the other cup of cream, vanilla and rum or brandy – and voila! You are done.
Cut up a nice slab and drizzle the sauce on – maybe some vanilla ice cream or whipped cream – and its a crowd pleaser!!
Let me know if you give it a try! So good! Totally worth the calories!
