Ingredients

• 100 g - flour
• 125 g - butter or margarine
• 25 g - semolina
• 3 - eggs
• 1/ 2 cup - rum
• 100 g - dates
• 10 - walnuts
• 125 g - sugar
• 1/4 cup - milk
• 1 tsp - baking powder
• 1 tsp -vanilla essence

How to Make Date and Walnut Cake

• Cut each date into 3-4 pieces and soak the dates in the rum for a couple of hours or a few days.
• Break the walnuts into small pieces.
• Beat the butter. Add sugar and beat till nice and smooth. Add egg yolks and continue beating.
• Put the dates and walnuts in the flour and mix. Mix in the flour slowly in the butter mixture and keep stiring. Continue stiring while adding the semolina
• Slowly fold the stifly beaten egg whites into the mixture
• Mix gently with hands to avoid forming lumps
• Add the vanilla essence, milk
• The mixture should flow when the mixing bowl is tilted
• Rub the cake moulds with some butter and dust with flour. Pour the mixture into cake moulds.
• Preheat oven to 375 deg Fahrenheit.
• Ten minutes after keeping the cake in the oven lower the temperature to 300-325
• Bake for 40-50 min