Date Walnut Cake

Recipe by: HoneeBee | Photo by: Reader's Digest

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Prep: 30 mins Cook: 1 hour 30 mins
Serves: 16

This has been a favourite of my husband's since as long as I can remember. His mum always manages to bake him one every year (she's 75) for Christmas - though she always claims it's his last.

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Ingredients

900g (2 lb) dates, pitted and chopped

900g (2 lb) English walnuts, coarsely chopped

200g (7 oz) caster sugar

1 tablespoon baking powder

150g (5 oz) plain flour

4 egg yolks

4 egg whites

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Preparation method

1. Preheat the oven to 150 C / Gas mark 2. Grease and flour a 25cm (10 in) tube cake tin.

2. In a large bowl, combine dates, walnuts, sugar, baking powder and flour. Stir in egg yolks. In a large glass or metal mixing bowl, beat egg whites until stiff peaks form. Fold the whites into the fruit/nut mixture until no streaks remain. Spoon into prepared tin.

3. Bake in the preheated oven for 90 minutes. Let cool in tin for 10 minutes, then turn out onto a wire rack and cool completely.