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Showing posts with label Date. Show all posts

Fig Date Walnut Bread #BreadBakers


This is a beautiful bread,  the figs and dates  makes it chewy and the walnuts give a  nutty taste and flavor.  This is a dense bread yet soft and fruity bread.  I loved the taste of figs in this bread.  This is quick bread.  

Makes one Loaf
Ingredients
1 Cup Buttermilk
1/2 Teaspoon Finely grated Lemon rind
1/4 Teaspoon Ground nutmeg
A pinch of Cloves powder
110 Grams Chopped Dried Figs
75 Grams Chopped Pitted Dates
1/2 cup Packed Brown Sugar
1/4 Cup Oil
2 Eggs
3/4 Cup Whole Wheat Flour
3/4 Cup All Purpose Flour
1.1/2 Teaspoon Baking soda
1/8 Teaspoon Salt
1/3 Cup Chopped Walnuts
A few halved Walnuts

Method 
In a saucepan add the buttermilk, figs and dates and keep it to soak for at least 30 minutes 
 or until fruit softens.
In the meantime sieve the whole wheat flour, all purpose flour, baking soda, and salt in a bowl.  Mix in the chopped walnuts well, keep aside.
In another bowl whisk sugar, oil, and eggs until well blended. Add the lemon rind, nutmeg, cloves powder,  then stir in butter milk figs and date mix, give it a quick whisk. Then add the  flour, folding it with a spatula until combined . 

Spoon batter into a greased and lined loaf pan. Sprinkle few  halved walnuts  evenly over batter. Bake it in a preheated oven at 200 degrees C for 45 to 50 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in the center comes out clean . 
 Cool for 15 minutes in a pan.

After 15 minutes lift the paper and place the bread  on a wire rack to cool completely . 
Slice it ..
Enjoy with a cup of tea or coffee.
Perfect ...

Labels : Walnuts, Figs, Date, Breads, Bread Bakers, Healthy

This month's BreadBakers' theme is Breads with Nut Meals and Nut Flours inspired bread, hosted by Cindy at Cindy’s Recipes and Writings.
Enjoy all these creative breads using nut meals and nut flours from The Bread Bakers Group!
Almond Blueberry Banana Bread by Stacy at Food Lust People Love.
Almond Butter Chocolate Chip Muffins by Pavani at Cook's Hideout.
Almond Flour Bread by Robin at A Shaggy Dough Story.
Almond Flour Sandwich Buns by Gayathri at Gayathri’s Cook Spot.
Almond Pear Bread by Cindy at Cindy’s Recipes and Writings.
Carrot Nut Bread by Mayuri at Mayuri's Jikoni.
Citrus Bread with Macadamia Nuts by Wendy at A Day in the Life on the Farm.
Fig and Walnut Bread by Karen at Karen’s Kitchen Stories.
Fig Date Walnut Bread by Sneha at Sneha's Recipe.
Mixed Berry Almond Loaf by Namita at Ambrosia.
Peanut Brittle Ring Bread by Sharanya at Sara’s Tasty Buds.
Peanut Butter Breakfast Loaf by Sue at Palatable Pastime.
Quick Almond Bread by Kalyani at Sizzling Tastebuds.
Whole Grain Date Walnut Bread by Sona at Spill the Spices.

#BreadBakers is a group of bread loving bakers who get together once a month to bake bread with a common ingredient or theme. You can see all our of lovely bread by following our Pinterest board right here. Links are also updated after each event on the #BreadBakers home page.

We take turns hosting each month and choosing the theme/ingredient. If you are a food blogger and would like to join us, just send Stacy an email with your blog URL to foodlustpeoplelove@gmail.com.

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Eggless Almond-Date Cake - Vegan and Healthy

March 30, 2014



Baking gives me so much of joy that if you tell me to bake at anytime and for any occassion I will do it.  This was the cake I baked for our trekking group when we visited Mridul point at Yeor Forest on a Sunday. 




Ingredients
1 Cup  Almonds
22  Dates  (pitted) (I used black dates)
150 ML Oil
1.1/2 Cup Wheat Flour
1.1/2 Cup All Purpose Flour
2 Teaspoons Baking Powder
1 Teaspoon Baking Soda
1 Teaspoon Salt
3/4 Cinnamon Powder
1.1/4 Brown Sugar or Light brown sugar
Golden syrup for glaze.




Method
In a cup of water add the dates and micro for a  2 minutes.
Grind the almonds and dates to a fine paste adding as much of water as is needed to make about 3 cups of the paste (a little thick batter consistency should be fine).Add oil to the paste and  give a run in the mixer.

In a mixing bowl, add the dry ingredients and seive it thrice. Slowly add the wet ingredients to the dry and mix so there are no lumps. Don't over mix it.
Preheat the oven to 180 degrees. Grease and flour the baking pan.  I used a Bundt pan  and also a rectangle pan, since the bundt pan was a small one.
Carefully pour the batter into the prepared pan and place it in the middle rack of the oven.
Bake for about 55 minutes depending upon the oven or until a tooth pick comes out clean. When the cake is slightly cooled unmould it and pour the hot glaze over it.



For the glaze :  Take 2 tablespoon water and 2 teaspoons golden syrup and boil it.
This cake was so spongy and soft that all enjoyed it. I wanted to decorated this cake with almonds but it was so late when I finished baking, so I left it just like that.  The glaze cannot be seen but this glaze make the cake even more soft and spongy.







Labels: Cakes, Eggless, Healthy, Vegan, Almond, Date

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