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Sticky Rum and Date Cake

By Chelsea Sugar
Sticky Rum and Date Cake
12 servings
  • 2 reviews

  • Difficulty Easy
  • Prep time 10 mins
  • Cooking time 40 mins
  • Serves
    12
Ingredients

    250g dates
    1 tsp baking soda
    1 cup boiling water
    50g butter
    1/2 cup Chelsea White Sugar
    1/2 cup Chelsea Soft Brown Sugar
    1 egg
    1/2 cup walnut pieces
    1 tsp vanilla essence
    1 1/2 cups flour
    1/4 tsp salt
    1/4 tsp mixed spice

    Rum Syrup
    30g butter
    1/2 cup Chelsea White Sugar
    1/4 cup water
    1 tsp rum essence

Method

    Cut dates into three pieces, sprinkle with soda and cover with boiling water. Cool.
    Cream butter and sugar together, then add egg. Add nuts and essence, then the date mixture and mix well. Sift flour, salt and spice and fold into date mixture. (Do not over-mix) Put into a well-greased or baking-paper-lined 23cm cake tin. Bake for 40-45 minutes at 160°C.

    When cooked, remove from oven and make the rum syrup. Boil butter, sugar, and water for 1 minute, then add essence. Pierce top of cake with a clean knitting needle or bamboo skewer and drizzle over hot syrup.

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Reviews

Average Rating
52
(2 reviews)


Yummy cake! Made it twice already. I was just wondering if we could use all brown sugar instead of white and brown. Would that make a difference in the taste or texture?
CHELSEA: Hi there, we haven't tried it this way before. We think it should still taste great if you use all brown sugar in the cake mixture, but would recommend using white sugar in the rum syrup.

I tried this and it was yummy! Came out really well, thank you!!

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