Ingredients:

• All purpose flour – 2 cup
• Butter – 1 stick
• Sugar – 3/4 cup
• Dates – 1 cup
• Walnuts – 3/4 cup
• Baking soda – 1 tsp

Method:

1. Wash the dates, remove the seeds, chop it, and soak it in water for sometime
2. Mix the butter and sugar well. Sieve flour and baking soda together.
3. Add this to the butter and sugar mix, and beat well.
4. To this add the soaked dates along with water.
5. Beat the mix again.
6. Then add the chopped walnuts.
7. Bake it at 350 F for about 1/2 hr.
8. Remove cake from pan after it cools

Recipe courtesy of Deepa Santhanam