Dates cake

Ingredients:

• 500 gr dates without stones
•  200 gr biscuits
•  250 gr butter
•  150 gr soft brown sugar
•  1 egg
•  2x 100 gr coconut grater 

Cut the dates in julienne, and break the biscuits in medium pieces. Butter in a spring cake tin and put baking paper on the bottom.  After you’ve done that, melt the butter in a medium – large pan.

After that you add the sugar and directly add the egg as well. And then the hard part of this cake: immediately when the egg has touched the pan, you have to stir stir stir very well. Because when you stir bad, you will get big pieces of omelette in your sauce and you can throw away the whole mixture.  

      Then you will have a thick dark brown sauce and you add the dates. Mix it in with the batter and leave it cooking very slowly for about a minute. 

When that’s done, you can take the whole mixture off the fire ( I put it out) and add the cookies and 100 gr of the coconut. Now you have to stir very good so everything mixes together.

When you have a smooth batter, you can spoon it into the spring cake tin.

Now you are going to push the batter in all the corners and make sure you divide it very nicely. Then you take a piece of plastic film, and you put it on top of the cake and start pushing with your  hands. You are doing this to make sure the batter is tightly together.

After this you put it in the fridge for at least 3 hours.

Decorate with the last 100 gr of coconut  grater and enjoy!

Calden