This date cake is a simple coffee cake with a wonderful flavor and unique broiled topping.
Ingredients
- ½ cups water: 1 piece
- ½ cups raisins: 1 piece
- dates, pitted and: 0.75 cup (chopped)
- baking soda: 1 tsp
- white sugar: 0.75 cup
- butter: 0.5 cup
- eggs: 2 piece
- vanilla extract: 1 tsp
- ½ cups all-purpose flour: 1 piece
- salt: 0.25 tsp
- butter: 4 Tbsp
- brown sugar: 0.5 cup
- walnuts: 0.5 cup (chopped)
- heavy cream: 2 Tbsp
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Stages of cooking
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Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour a 9-inch square pan.
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Combine water and raisins in a medium saucepan. Bring to a boil and cook for 5 minutes. Remove from heat, then stir in chopped dates and baking soda. Set aside.
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Cream together white sugar and butter in a large bowl until light and fluffy. Beat in eggs one at a time, then stir in vanilla. Add flour, salt, and date mixture; mix until combined. Pour batter into the prepared pan.
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Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean, about 45 minutes. Remove cake from the oven.
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Set the oven to broil. Meanwhile, make the topping: Melt butter in a small saucepan; stir in brown sugar, walnuts, and cream until combined. Spread mixture over warm cake.
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Place cake under preheated broiler and cook until top is lightly browned, about 3 minutes. Rotate cake as needed for even browning; watch carefully as the top can burn quickly under the broiler.
