Eggless Whole wheat Date Walnut Cake (Vegan)
This no maida, no refined sugar, naturally sweetened Eggless Whole wheat Date Walnut Cake (Vegan) makes the perfect tea time cake! This turns out soft, dense and rich and easy to make.
Servings 8 Inch round cake
Ingredients
- 25 dates pitted
- 1 +1 /2 cups Almond Milk
- 1/2 cup Oil
- 1 tsp Vanilla essence
- 1 +1/4 cup wholewheat flour
- 1/2 tsp Cinnamon powder
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1 Pinch Salt
- 1/8 Cup Walnuts Chopped for garnish
Instructions
- To begin with pre-heat your oven to 180°C degrees for 10 minutes. Prepare an 8 inch round/square cake pan lined with parchment paper and set aside.
Wet ingredients
- Heat Almond milk or any vegan milk of your choice on slow flame until warm. There is no need to bring it to boil.
- Turn off heat, add pitted dates to it, cover the pan with a lid. Let the dates soak in warm milk for around 30 minutes to soften.
- Transfer this milk-softened dates mixture to a blender to make a smooth paste. Once blended transfer to a steel bowl. To this add oil and vanilla essence to it until well combined.
Dry ingredients
- In a separate bowl sift whole wheat flour, cinnamon, baking soda, baking powder and salt atleast twice.
- Now add wet ingredients mix to dry ingredients and combine by using cut and fold method.
- Keep in mind not to over-mix the batter as thia will produce more gluten resulting in more dense cake.
- If required add 3-4 tablespoons of Almond milk here to thin out the batter a little. Transfer this mixture to cake tin. Level it up and top it with chopped walnuts.
- Bake at 180 degrees for around 55 to 60 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
- Transfer cake onto a wire rack to cool completely. Let it cool for few hours and then slice as this is a dense cake.
Notes
1. To make this cake texture light, feel free to use only all purpose flour/Maida instead of whole wheat flour.
2. Replace dates with sugar. However, then cake wouldn't be refined sugar free but this step will make the crumb lighter.
3. Use other milk alternatives to make this cake like oats milk or cashew milk since this is a vegan cake. You can definately go for dairy milk if you wish to make it non vegan cake.