The Healthy Date Loaf is a simple and nutritious recipe, featuring no refined sugars. Sweetened naturally with ripe dates and ground cinnamon, this easy-to-make cake requires only 8 ingredients. It is quick, moist, and can be enjoyed immediately or sliced and frozen for later convenience.
In a medium sized mixing bowl, add the flour, cream of tartar, bicarb and ground cinnamon. Mix with a spoon to combine.
Add the milk, eggs, and vegetable oil, and stir to combine. Add the chopped dates and stir to combine again.
Grease a silicone loaf tin with butter or oil and line with greaseproof paper.
Pour in the cake batter and smooth over the top
Bake in oven at180 degrees C/350 degrees F for 30 minutes.
Let cake cool in the silicone loaf tin until it comes to room temperature.
Remove from silicone loaf tin and discard baking paper.
Option 1: Store in an air tight container at room temperature and eat within 2 days.
Option 2: Cut into 8 slices and place into ziplock bags/airtight container and freeze for upto 3 weeks. To serve, let it defrost naturally or warm in microwave for 10-20 seconds and eat with a light spread of butter.
Notes
Cream of Tartar is a leavening agent, readily available in the baking aisle of supermarkets. This recipe works best when using both Bicarb Soda and Cream of Tartar.
The medjool dates should be at room temperature. Remove seeds and chop roughly into small chunks and measure out 1 packed cup.
The sugars in this recipe come from the naturally occurring sugars in the dates. No other sweeteners have been used in this recipe and as such it may not be as sweet as you are used to. If you have a sweet tooth and prefer sweeter baked goods, I'd suggest adding 1 tablespoon of granulated sweetener such as Monkfruit.
Substitutions: Sub wholemeal plain flour with spelt flour or oat flour. Sub vegetable oil with olive oil, coconut oil or avocado oil, or even unsweetened apple sauce if looking to make it lower in calories.