Eggless Dates Cake

My Kids don't eat Dates . I was searching for some cake recipes and found this one. I baked this cake and my kids did'nt know that it was made out of dates. They loved to eat the cake till the last bite. 

Ingredients
1 cup Flour or Maida
18 Dates 
3/4 cup Milk
3/4 cup Granulated Sugar 
1/2 cup Oil 
1 tsp Baking Soda

1 tsp walnuts

Method
Soak dates with litttle milk and  set aside to make it soft. 
In a mixing bowl , add sugar, milk and oil, stir until sugar completely dissolves. Keep aside.
Sieve flour with baking soda twice so that baking soda is evenly distributed and keep aside.
Grind the dates to a fine paste. Add the dates paste to milk sugar mixture and mix well.
Now add flour and mix well so the flour blends well with the dates mixture.
Add the chopped walnuts and give a quick stir.
Preheat oven at 350 F (170 deg C) for 10 minutes.
Meanwhile grease the pan with oil and little flour then add the prepared batter.
Bake the cake at 350 F for 35-40 minutes (check after 30 minutes then proceed accordingly)
Check by inserting a knife or fork at the centre of the cake, if it comes out clean the your cake is done.
Cool down the cake completely on a wire rack and then cut into slices.
Enjoy the cake!

Notes

You can reduce the oil quantity to 1/4 cup for low cal version,I have even tried like that and the cake was still moist and yummy.

You can even sprinkle some chopped walnuts or cashew nuts over the batter before baking which gives the look of a brownie.

The colour of the cake depends on the quality of dates you use,if you use regular ones it might be brown in colour and if you add good quality dark dates it would come extreme dark chocolate colour.

You can even use regular dates with seeds but for that you need to soak the dates in milk overnight in the refrigerator.Remove the seeds and proceed with the same recipe.