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An easy to make one step vegan date & orange cake made in a sheet pan. Sticky, rich and packed with flavour there is no need to decorate.
Date & Orange Cake
The most popular post on Fuss Free Flavours is my store cupboard bung it all in, mix and bake easy peasy ginger cake. I make it on a regular basis and have never had it go wrong, or fail to impress. Because all the ingredients are from the store cupboard you need neither eggs or butter making it frugal as well as vegan, and thus suitable for those with either diary of egg allergies.
My original recipe is now five years old, so it is time for an update (and some better photography) and the current incarnation is a sticky orange and date cake; all the ingredients apart from the orange are from the store cupboard, and the cake is still egg and diary free and vegan.
My dates were ancient and very very dried out so I gave them a soak before using, if you shop more frequently, or have better quality dates than I do then skip this stage.
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Date & Orange Sheet Cake (Vegan)
An easy one step vegan data and orange sheet cake. Bung it all into a food processor or blender. Whizz and bake!
Servings: 16 pieces
Author: Helen Best-Shaw
Prep Time5 minutes mins
Cook Time35 minutes mins
Total Time40 minutes mins
Ingredients
- 100 g dried dates (snipped into pieces and covered in boiling water and left to soak)
- 350 g Plain Flour
- 225 g Sugar (I use soft dark brown for colour and flavour but any would work)
- 100 g Cooking oil (Sunflower or rape/canola)
- Zest one large orange (finely grated)
- 1 tsp baking powder
- ½ tsp bicarbonate of soda
- Pinch salt
- 60 g golden syrup
Instructions
Drain the dates, reserving the soaking water, make the volume of the date water up to 225ml.
Place all the ingredients into a bowl or your stand mixer and whizz until you have a smooth golden brown batter.
Pour into 8” square pan lined with greaseproof paper (if needed) and bake at GM4/180C for about 25 – 30 mins until risen and a co*cktail stick inserted into the middle comes out clean.
Cut into squares and dust with icing sugar.
Notes
This keeps well for at least a week in an airtight tin.
• Please note that the nutrition information provided below is approximate and meant as a guideline only.
• Unless stated otherwise cup conversions have been made with an online tool. For accuracy please check with your favoured conversion tool. We recommend buying inexpensive digital kitchen scales.
Nutrition Facts
Date & Orange Sheet Cake (Vegan)
Amount Per Serving
Calories 218Calories from Fat 54
% Daily Value*
Fat 6g9%
Sodium 40mg2%
Potassium 98mg3%
Carbohydrates 38g13%
Fiber 1g4%
Sugar 21g23%
Protein 2g4%
Vitamin A 10IU0%
Calcium 21mg2%
Iron 1.1mg6%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.
Course: Cake
Cuisine: Baking, Vegan
Keyword: Vegan date cake, Vegan sheet cake
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Jayne
Lovely sounding cake! No eggs or butter either, I love a cake that doesn’t rely on softened butter!Reply
Camilla @FabFood4All
No eggs or butter, well that’s a cake I’ve not yet made but from the ingredients and the photo I can see that this is a lovely sticky, moist and rich cake. A very tasty treat for Credit Crunch Munch where some of us have quite a sweet tooth:-)Reply
Steph B
This cake looks delicious and I’m hoping to get time to bake it on Sunday. We’ve already got all the ingredients except the orange so there’s hardly any planning ahead – my favourite type of cooking!
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Helen
Thanks Steph. Let me know how it goes!
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Abby @ The Frosted Vegan
This looks lovely! Love the date and orange combo, so perfect!Reply
Elizabeth
This sounds lovely, and for being a vegan cake it doesn’t look stodgy at all (my own limited experience with vegan cakes have usually yielded stodgy bakes). I will have to try it for myself!Reply
the caked crusader
ooh – it looks so light and soft. I adore dates in anything so you’ve sold it to me!1111
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bakingaddict
This cakes looks great given that it has no eggs or butter. I love mix all in one recipes too – definitely bookmarking this one for when I dont have eggs or butter or need a vegan cake. Thanks for entering AlphaBakes.Reply
sue
Do you think I could successfully sub agave nectar for the golden syrup?Reply
Lesley - Scottish Mum Blog
I really like the look of this. I think my kids would like it. Any excuse for cake is a good one.Reply
Helen
Thanks Lesley. I agree any excuse for cake!
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Sabine
This cake is delicious. I had to bake it twice within a week. Thanks for the recipe. My German version of it: http://hamburgkocht.blogspot.de/2015/05/veganer-orangen-dattel-kuchen.htmlReply
Helen
Thanks for commenting and linking up. Am delighted that you like my cake!
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Andrea
Very nice and easy!Reply
