Date Nut Breadfruit Cake Recipes

DATE NUT LOAF CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour a 9x5 inch loaf pan. In a saucepan over medium heat, bring dates and water to a boil. Stir in 1/2 cup butter and 1 cup sugar until melted. Remove from heat and stir in baking soda. Let cool for 10 minutes.
• Place date mixture into a large bowl. Blend in flour, eggs and vanilla. Stir in chopped walnuts. Pour batter into prepared pan.
• Bake in the preheated oven for 50 to 60 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean. Let cool in pan for 10 minutes, then turn out onto a wire rack and cool completely. Serve slices with Warm Sauce.
• To make Warm Sauce: In a saucepan over medium heat, combine 1/4 cup butter with cream and brown sugar. Heat, stirring constantly, until mixture boils and sugar is dissolved.

DATE NUT CAKE- PROJECT VINTAGE RECIPES

Steps:

• Place chopped dates in a large bowl and sprinkle with baking soda.
• Pour boiling water over the dates and let sit until cool.
• In the bowl of an electric mixer, cream butter and both sugars and then add the beaten eggs.
• Mix until creamy.
• Sift the flours with the teaspoon of cinnamon and then slowly add to the butter mixture until all is incorporated.
• Add vanilla, dates (with water) and chopped nuts and stir until blended.
• Pour into two 9 inch greased and floured cake pans and bake at 350 degrees for 35-45 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean.
• Cool on wire racks.
• Sprinkle with powdered sugar before serving.
• This can also be served topped with fresh whipped cream.

BRITISH DATE AND WALNUT LOAF CAKE

Steps:

• Place dates and margarine in a bowl with boiling water and baking soda. Gently mix with a wooden spoon until margarine has melted and dates are plumped up. Let cool to room temperature, at least 30 minutes.
• Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Line a 2-pound loaf pan with parchment paper.
• Combine flour, brown sugar, and walnuts in a separate bowl. Add to bowl with the date mixture. Mix well with a wooden spoon. Add egg and mix in. Spoon mixture into the prepared pan.
• Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, 60 to 75 minutes. Let cool on a wire rack.

DATE NUT BREAD/FRUIT CAKE

Steps:

• Cut dates and soak in boiling water about 15 minutes.
• Do not use a miker - put all ingredients into bowl, add dates and water.
• Mix thouroughly,.
• Spray pans with cooking spray. This can also be make as cupcakes(do not spray).
• Fill pans 1/3 full or cupcakes a little over half.
• Bake at 350 until bread will bounce back from touch. About 35 minutes.
• If cupcakes about 15 - 18 minutes.
• 2 Breads, or 2 dz. cupcakes.
• Fruit Cakes.
• Double date bread mix and add Fruit Cake Mix, top with Cherries.
• Bake as Date Break or cupcakes.
• 4 Breads, or 4 dz cupcakes.

DATE-NUT FRUITCAKE

Steps:

• In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar. Add eggs; mix well. Combine flour and baking soda; add to creamed mixture alternately with buttermilk. Stir in the coconut, raisins, dates, pecans and orange zest. , Spoon into a greased and floured 10-in. fluted tube pan. Bake at 300° for 85-95 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool for 10 minutes before removing from pan to a wire rack. Place a piece of waxed paper under rack. , In a small saucepan, bring the sugar and orange juice to a boil; boil for 1 minute. Stir in orange zest. Poke holes in cake with a long wooden skewer; gradually spoon glaze over fruitcake. Cool completely.

FESTIVE FRUITCAKE

Steps:

• HEAT oven to 350 degrees F. Spray bottom and sides of 12-cup fluted tube pan or 10-inch tube pan with flour no-stick cooking spray.
• COMBINE water, oil and eggs in large bowl. Beat well. Add quick bread mix, pecans, raisins, cherries and pineapple. Stir with spoon until combined. Pour into prepared pan.
• BAKE 1 hour 25 minutes to 1 hour 35 minutes or until golden brown and toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool 30 minutes. Remove from pan. Cool 1 hour longer or until completely cooled.
• WRAP tightly in plastic wrap or foil. Refrigerate at least 8 hours. Store in refrigerator for up to 2 weeks or in freezer for up to 3 months.
• Just before serving: HEAT jelly or syrup in microwave 10 seconds or until melted and smooth. Brush over fruitcake. Garnish with additional cherries and pecans, if desired.

DATE NUT CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
• Prepare 8 inch cake pan and proceed as usual.
• Mix first three ingredients together and let cool completely.
• Add walnuts, cake flour and baking powder and stir gently.
• Add butter sugar, salt and.
• egg.
• Stir completely and bake in prepared pan until tester comes out clean.
• Topping: Cook until syrupy and spread on warm cake.
• Serve cooled topped.
• with fresh whipped cream, if desired.

DATE BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Spray a 9-by-5-inch loaf pan with nonstick spray.
• Place the dates in a small bowl and sprinkle with the salt and baking soda. Pour the boiling water over the mixture and allow it to sit until it cools.
• Meanwhile, in the bowl of a mixer fitted with the whisk attachment or in a large bowl using a handheld mixer (or a whisk and a lot of elbow grease), beat the sugar and butter until creamy. Add the egg and vanilla and beat until well combined, about 1 minute. Using a rubber spatula, stir in the date mixture (water and all) and then fold in the flour. The batter will be very stiff.
• Transfer the batter to the prepared loaf pan and, using a rubber spatula, smooth out the top so the loaf is even. Bake until the loaf is dark golden brown, a toothpick tests clean when inserted into the center of the loaf, and the bread is firm to the touch, about 40 minutes. Let the bread cool completely on a wire rack before turning it out of the pan and slicing it. Leftovers can be stored in a plastic bag at room temperature for up to 3 days (if the slices get a bit dry, you can revive them in a toaster oven or regular oven set at 300 degrees F for a few minutes before serving).

BREADFRUIT CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375°F.
• In a large mixing bowl, blend together the dry ingredients.
• Add oil, and stir well.
• Beat in eggs and vanilla and continue beating with electric mixer.
• Beat in breadfruit until smooth.
• Remove fibrous breadfruit from beater.
• Stir in nuts.
• Bake in 3 long pans for 45 minutes.

DATE NUT CAKE

Steps:

• Mix nuts, dates and cherries in a large bowl.
• Combine flour, sugar, salt, and baking powder.
• Sprinkle flour mixture over fruit; mix well.
• Add beaten eggs and vanilla.
• Mix throughly.
• Bake in tube pan at 275 degrees fahrenheit for 1 hour and 15 minutes.