Dates Cake with Rum Caramel Sauce

Ingredients for Dates Cake with Rum Caramel Sauce:

1. Dates chopped – ¾ cup

    Dry prunes – ¼ cup

    Black raisins – ¼ cup

    Boiling water – 60 milli

    Baking soda – ¾ small spoon

2. Eggs – 3

3. Dark brown sugar – 200 gm

    Butter melted – 190 gm

    Vanilla essence – 1 small spoon

4. Maida – ¾ cup

    Baking powder – 1 ¼ small spoon

    Salt – ¼ small spoon

For sauce:

5. Butter – 100 gm

    Dark brown sugar- ½ cup

    Golden syrup – 1/2 cup

    Cream – 1 cup

    Rum – ¼ cup

How to prepare Dates Cake with Rum Caramel Sauce?

1. Preheat oven in 160 degree celsious.

2. Mix together ingredients no: 1, soak for a while and later make a fine paste.

3. In a bowl beat the eggs along with ingredients no: 3.

4. Mix together ingredients no: 4 and add in slowly to the above egg mixture and mix well.

5. Add dates mixture slowly and blend well.

6. Grease a tin and transfer the contents to it.

7. Place inside pre-heat oven and bake for 50 minutes.

8. When you prick the cake using a toothpick, cake won’t stick on to it if it’s cooked well.

9. You can transfer the cake from mould once it gets cooled.

10. To prepare sauce, mix together ingredients no: 5 in a sauce pan.

11. Boil it for 10-12 minutes till contents turn thick.

12. Allow it to cool.

13. Once it cools well, pour on the top of cake.

Vanitha Magazine December 1-14, 2017

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