English Walnut Date Cake

This has been a favorite of my husband's since I can long remember. His mother always manages to bake him one every year (she's 75) for Christmas...though she claims it's always his last.

• Preparation Time: 30 mins
• Cooking Time: 1 hr 30 mins
• Total Time: 2 hr
• Calories: 633 Calories

Ingredients

• 1 cup white sugar
• 1 ¼ cups all-purpose flour
• 1 tablespoon baking powder
• 4 large egg whites egg whites
• 2 pounds dates, pitted and chopped
• 2 pounds English walnuts, coarsely chopped
• 4 large egg yolks egg yolks

Recipe Instructions

Step 1

Preheat oven to 300 degrees F (150 degrees C). Grease and flour a 10 inch tube pan.

Step 2

In a large bowl, combine dates, walnuts, sugar, baking powder and flour. Stir in egg yolks. In a large glass or metal mixing bowl, beat egg whites until stiff peaks form. Fold the whites into the fruit/nut mixture until no streaks remain. Spoon into prepared pan.

Step 3

Bake in the preheated oven for 90 minutes. Let cool in pan for 10 minutes, then turn out onto a wire rack and cool completely.