Pumpkin and Date Cake

A community recipe by Kiwifruit1

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Introduction

This is a lovely light cake perfect with greek yoghurt & a coffee.

Ingredients

Serves: approx 10-12 slices depending

9 ounces butter
¾ cup superfine sugar
2 eggs
1 cup chopped dates
½ cup coconut
½ cup mashed, cold pumpkin
1 tablespoon orange zest (or lemon zest, finely grated)
2 cups self-rising flour
½ cup milk

Method

Pumpkin and Date Cake is a community recipe submitted by Kiwifruit1 and has not been tested by Nigella.com so we are not able to answer questions regarding this recipe.

Preheat oven to 160c then grease & line a 24cm springform caketin.

Cream together butter & sugar then beat in eggs one at a time. Mix in chopped dates, coconut, pumpkin, citrus rind then stir in half the flour & milk.

Fold to combine then add the rest of flour & milk & fold gently again.

Pour into your caketin & bake for about an hour. If you have a fanbake oven then only bake 45mins.