dessert

Date and Walnut pudding

Ingredients for cake:

Dates – 250g
(Remove seeds and skin from dates and add 5 tbsp of water, cook until soft or soak in water for 5 hours with a pinch of soda)
Flour – 1 cup
Baking soda – ¼ tsp
Eggs – 2
Vanilla essence – 1 tsp
Sugar – 100g
Baking powder – ½ tsp
Butter – 80g
Walnuts – ½ cup
Method:
Strain flour, baking powder and baking soda. Take a bowl, beat butter and sugar until becomes creamy. Then add 1 egg and 1 tbsp flour mixture and beat. Then add 2nd egg and 1 tbsp of flour mixture and beat. Then add softened dates, vanilla essence, remaining flour mixture and walnuts, and beat well. Bake in 6 inch greased pan on 180 degree, gas mark 4 preheated oven for 40 to 45 minutes. Then serve with custard.
Ingredients for Custard:
Milk – 2 cups
Sugar – 3 tbsp
Vanilla custard powder – 2 tbsp (dissolve in ¼ cup milk)
Method:

Boil milk and sugar until sugar dissolves. Then add custard mix milk and cook until becomes thick. Take it off of the flame and serve with cake.