Date & Walnut Cake

A delicious, easy to make cake packed full of fruit and nuts

Prep time: 10 minutes

Cook time: 90 minutes

Ingredients

• 200g self-raising flour

• pinch of salt

• 100g butter or margarine

• 100g muscovado sugar

• 200g pitted dates

• 50g walnuts, chopped

• 2 eggs

• 125ml milk

• a few drops of vanilla essence

Method

• Preheat the oven to 160 degrees centigrade (140 fan) and grease and line a 2lb loaf tin

• Sieve the flour and salt in a bowl and rub in the fat

• Add the sugar, dates and walnuts

• Beat in the eggs, milk and vanilla essence

• Spoon into the prepared tin and bake on the middle shelf for 1 ½ hours or until a skewer comes out clean 

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