Eggless Milkless Date Nut Cake Recipes

GRANDMA'S EGGLESS, BUTTERLESS, MILKLESS CAKE

Steps:

• In a large bowl, combine all the dry ingredients together.
• Combine all the wet ingredients together in another bowl.
• Pour the liquid ingredients all at once into the dry ingredients, and beat until smooth.
• Pour batter into a greased 9 x 13 inch pan.
• Bake in a preheated 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) oven for 20-25 minutes. Let cool in pan. When cool sprinkle with confectioners' sugar.

EGGLESS, MILKLESS, BUTTERLESS SPICE CAKE

Steps:

• Stir together flour, cornstarch, baking soda, spices and salt.
• Cream sugar, oil, lemon juice and vanilla.
• Add flour mixture to sugar mixture, a little at a time, alternating with up to 1 cup of water.
• Mix briskly with fork until thoroughly blended.
• Pour into lightly greased and floured 8 or 9 inch square pan and bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes or until cake tests done.
• Let cool in pan.

EGGLESS DATE CAKE

Steps:

• Heat milk in a saucepan until almost boiling and stir in dates; let soak for several hours, refrigerated. For best flavor, refrigerate dates and milk overnight.
• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a medium loaf pan.
• Transfer milk and dates to food processor, add brown sugar, and process into a smooth paste. Mix in vegetable oil and vanilla extract with a few pulses.
• Whisk flour, baking soda, and cinnamon in a bowl until thoroughly combined. Pulse flour mixture, about 1/4 cup at a time, into the date paste until batter is smooth; do not overmix. Stir walnuts into batter with a fork and transfer to the prepared loaf pan.
• Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the middle of the cake comes out clean, about 40 minutes.

EGGLESS MILKLESS DATE NUT CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350F and grease and flour a 8" or 9" square pan.
• In a large bowl, combine dates, walnuts and other dry ingredients.
• In a small bowl, mix water, butter and vanilla.
• Add water mixture to date mixture and mix until just moistened.
• Pour batter into prepared pan and cake for 30-40 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean.
• Serve warm or cold; plain or topped with whipped cream.

GRAM'S POOR MAN'S CAKE (EGGLESS & MILKLESS)

Steps:

• Bring to a boil the fruit, nuts, extract, salt, sugar, shortening and coffee.
• Continue to cook until raisins swell and liquid becomes syrupy; cool completely.
• Stir together the flour, baking soda and baking powder.
• Add to fruit mixture and combine thoroughly.
• Pour into a greased 10-inch tube pan and bake at 325° about an hour (if heavy with fruit). Check with tester to be sure cake is done.
• Remove from pan and cool completely on wire rack.
• At this point I soak a clean piece of cheesecloth in liquor; brandy, rum, even wine.
• Wrap the cake with the cloth and in foil--store in COLD place--check often, resoak as needed.
• There are no exact measurements for the fruit in this recipe--the original recipe stated "fruits, nuts & peels-whatever you have on hand".
• This was done because it was wartime and things for fancy baking were not always available.