Date Lady Sticky Toffee Date Cakes
Imagine soft, delicate cake filled with the rich depth of dates and crowned with chocolate-tahini icing. Imagine they were grain free and contained no cane sugar. Imagine no more, it’s real and you can make them too!

Optional: Have any Date Lady Chocolate Spread on hand? Warm ever-so-slightly for a delicious icing on these cakes as an alternative to the tahini glaze.

Sticky Toffee Date Cakes

Prep Time

25 minutes

Cook Time

15 minutes

Category

Dessert

Date Lady Sticky Toffee Date Cakes

Ingredients

For topping use slightly warmed Date Lady Chocolate or Chocolate Tahini Glaze Ingredients below

Directions

  1. Preheat oven to 350 F. grease small bunt (or cup cake) pans and set aside.

  2. In small saucepan over medium-high heat, add water and dates. Boil for 5 min.

  3. Mix date mixture with baking soda.

  4. Mix butter & date sugar until light and fluffy.

  5. Add eggs one at a time to butter mixture. Add vanilla and mix well.

  6. In separate bowl combine flour, baking powder and salt. Gradually add dry ingredients to butter mixture.

  7. Stir in date mixture until it is evenly distributed in cake batter. Pour batter until it is half way up to top of each bundt pan.

  8. Bake for 15-20 min.

Chocolate Glaze

  1. Pour all ingredient into a bowl and stir to combined thoroughly.

  2. Pour over cooled cakes and enjoy!

Comments

Thinking this may make great doughnuts.

Laurie C on Nov 01, 2021

Oh my gosh! I can’t wait to try this recipe. Looks delicious and I like that it qualifies as clean eats. I have your date sugar and the syrup therefore I better get cracking!

Shamim on Dec 17, 2021

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