Date Cardamom Square

Name: Date Cardamom Squares
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 25 min
Total time: 45 min
Ingredients: 1/2 Cup All Purpose flour; 1/2 Cup Wholewheat flour (( I used stone ground Chakki Atta)); ½ tsp Cardamom powder; ⅛ tsp Salt; 1.25 tsp Baking powder; 25 nos. Black dates (Pitted, I used Mejdool Dates); 80 ml Milk ((sub with almond milk for vegan)); 2.5 tsp Custard powder (Skip for vegan version with varied results); ⅔ cup Brown Sugar (powdered); 1/2 Cup Neutral Oil; 150 ml Water (Room Temperature water); 2 tbsp Cashews (chopped coarse)

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Eggless Butterless Date Cardamom Squares

Every happy event in life becomes happier if it starts on a sweet note. Tea Cakes / Quick Breads are most favoured by the kids at home, along with Muffins of course. As much as possible, I do avoid adding refined sugar and making it sugarfree. As long as I can sneak in ingredients that are otherwise rejected at first sight (I remember how my elder one used to make a face with dates, but now she eats it regularly). Similarly, this cake has the goodness of Dates, that is super rich in fibre and iron (increases haemoglobin) and particularly good for kids in the growing age and puberty too.

What kind of dates can be used for this cake.

Well, you can use the khareek (dry dates) by soaking it in water. But I have used Black Mejdool dates that my family loves to eat as is too.

Benefits of using Dates

Healthline gives us some amazing benefits of consuming dates regularly, like:

Very Nutritious. Dates have an excellent nutrition profile. ...
High in Fiber. Getting enough fiber is important for your overall health. ...
High in Disease-Fighting Antioxidants. ...
May Promote Brain Health. ...
May Promote Natural Labor. ...
Excellent Natural Sweetener. .

Other quick Tea cakes you may like:

Eggless Sugar Free Ragi Bundt Cake

Quick Multigrain Almond Bread

Browned Butter Semolina Pumpkin Bread

Date Cardamom squares (Eggless & Butterless)

Recipe type : Cakes / Tea Cakes

Course: Dessert / Tea cake

Prep time: 20 mins | Bake time : 22-25 mins

Ingredients:

All Purpose flour – ½ cup
Wholewheat flour – ½ cup
Cardamom powder – ½ tsp
Salt – a pinch (about ⅛ tsp)
Baking powder – 1.25 tsp
Cashewnuts – 2 tablespoon (chopped
coarsely)
Black dates – pitted – about 25
pieces (you could use normal dates too)
Milk – 80 ml
Custard powder – 2.5 tsp
Brown Sugar – ⅔ cup (powdered)
Oil – ½ cup
Water – 150 ml

PIN FOR LATER

Method:

Sieve the flours with salt & custard powder. Pit the dates and grind them with, add 150 ml water to these dates ,
whisk well & heat this mixture till it becomes gooey, take it off the fire and add in baking powder and cardamom powder. It would froth quite a bit so take care. Let this mixture cool down.
Into the flour mixture, add cut nuts .. In a separate bowl, mix sugar, oil and milk well. Add this to the flour
mixture, along with the cooled date puree.
Fold gently till you get a thickish cake like batter without any dry flour between the folds. Pour into a
greased and lined pan, bake on a preheated oven at 180C / 375F for 25-30 mins (mine was done in exactly 27 mins) and a tooth pick comes clean.
Cool on a wire rack, un mould , cut and serve. You may also frost if you wish. I just added a stencil cut icing
sugar topping and glazed cherries.