Chocolate Date Cake
Recipe: #29955
July 12, 2018
Categories: Desserts, Cakes, Pecan, Dates, Oven Bake, High Fiber Kosher, Vegetarian, Chocolate, more
"My mom got this recipe from our next door neighbor when I was a child, Becky Corwin. When I was a child, she made it a lot and I hated the dates in it. But I'm ready to try it again because my tastes have matured a lot. If you don't like dates, I'm thinking you could sub in raisons or dried figs."
Ingredients
Nutritional
- Serving Size: 1 (89.7 g)
- Calories 297.6
- Total Fat - 14.9 g
- Saturated Fat - 6.5 g
- Cholesterol - 49.3 mg
- Sodium - 333.4 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 39.6 g
- Dietary Fiber - 1.5 g
- Sugars - 24.7 g
- Protein - 4.1 g
- Calcium - 25 mg
- Iron - 1 mg
- Vitamin C - 0.2 mg
- Thiamin - 0.1 mg
Step by Step Method
Step 1
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease and flour 9x13 baking pan (or use cooking spray).
Step 2
Mix chopped dates, boiling water and 1 teaspoon baking soda in small bowl. Set aside.
Step 3
Cream butter or margarine with 1 cup sugar. Blend in eggs, cocoa, 1/4 teaspoon baking soda and salt.
Step 4
Add some flour to the butter mixture, then some of the date mixture. Repeat until all is mixed, but end with the flour. Batter should be runny.
Step 5
Pour batter into prepared baking pan and sift 1/2 cup sugar on top of batter.
Step 6
Sprinkle with chocolate chips and pecans.
Step 7
Bake for 40 minutes. Serve warm or cooled.
Tips
No special items needed.