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Golden Date Cake

Here's how you make Golden Date Cake
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  • Servings: 6
  • Prep: 9m
  • Cook: 35m
    • The following recipe serves 6 people.

Ingredients

The ingredients are:
  • 2 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 1/2 cups granulated sugar
  • 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
  • 1 tablespoon baking powder
  • 1/2 cup shortening (Crisco)
  • 1 cup milk
  • 2 teaspoons vanilla
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 2 large eggs (it called for 1/2 cup eggs)
  • 1 cup pitted dates (chopped)
  • 1/2 cup walnuts, coarsely chopped
We recommend you get your ingredients ready before you start cooking. Once you're ready, here are the steps to making this delicious recipe

How to Make

  • Step 1: Preheat oven to 350 degrees

  • Step 2: Cream sugar and crisco

  • Step 3: Add eggs

  • Step 4: Sift flour and salt and baking powder

  • Step 5: Add to sugar mixture

  • Step 6: Alternately with milk and vanilla

  • Step 7: Beat in dates and then nuts they were mixing by hand but I have mixer,and I'm using it lol

  • Step 8: Pour into two 8 inch round cake pans that you have greased and floured

  • Step 9: Bake 35 minutes until toothpick comes out clean

  • Step 10: Cool and frost

We hope you enjoy this recipe!

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