Sourdough Date and Walnut Loaf Cake
Equipment
- Loaf Pan (1 pound loaf pan measuring 8.5" x 4.5" x 2.75")
Ingredients
Make First
- 120 g Dates (dried pitted dates, roughly chopped)
- 150 g Water (hot)
- 5 g Baking Soda
Wet Ingredients
- 90 g Butter (melted, salted)
- 90 g Brown Sugar
- 2 Eggs
- 5 g Vanilla Extract
- 100 g Sourdough Starter
Dry Ingredients
- 200 g All Purpose Flour
- 10 g Baking Powder
- 3 g Cinnamon
- ½ teaspoon Ginger
- ¼ teaspoon Nutmeg
- ½ teaspoon Allspice
- 120 g Walnuts (roughly chopped)
Instructions
- Roughly chop the dates and add these to a bowl with the hot water (it's best if the water has boiled within the last 10 minutes or so) and the baking soda. Leave this to sit for around 10 minutes while you gather the other ingredients.
- Preheat the oven to 180ºC (350ºF) and line a small loaf pan with baking paper (I also spray with some cooking spray just to make sure the loaf doesn't stick).
- Now add the butter, brown sugar, eggs and vanilla to a large bowl and whisk until well combined (it will look a bit like runny caramel). Then add your sourdough starter and whisk again. Set this aside.
- In a separate bowl, add the all purpose flour, baking powder, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, allspice and walnuts and mix until well combined.
- Now add the soaked dates mixture (including the water) and the flour mixture into the butter and brown sugar mixture. Stir it all together to form the cake batter.
- Pour the cake batter into the lined loaf pan and bake at 180ºC (350ºF) for around 45 to 50 minutes or until a skewer comes out clean.
