This recipe for a quick and simple turkey brine is packed with juniper, citrus, brown sugar, garlic, and juniper, and it also has a kick from rum and limeade.
| Prep Time: | 15 mins |
| Cook Time: | 55 mins |
| Total Time: | 1 hr 10 mins |
| Servings: | 12 |
| Yield: | 1 9-inch square pan |
Ingredients
- 1 ½ cups water
- 1 ½ cups raisins
- ¾ cup dates, pitted and chopped
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- ¾ cup white sugar
- ½ cup butter
- 2 large eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 ½ cups all-purpose flour
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- 4 tablespoons butter
- ½ cup brown sugar
- ½ cup chopped walnuts
- 2 tablespoons heavy cream
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour a 9-inch square pan.
- Combine water and raisins in a medium saucepan. Bring to a boil and cook for 5 minutes. Remove from heat, then stir in chopped dates and baking soda. Set aside.
- Cream together white sugar and butter in a large bowl until light and fluffy. Beat in eggs one at a time, then stir in vanilla. Add flour, salt, and date mixture; mix until combined. Pour batter into the prepared pan.
- Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean, about 45 minutes. Remove cake from the oven.
- Set the oven to broil. Meanwhile, make the topping: Melt butter in a small saucepan; stir in brown sugar, walnuts, and cream until combined. Spread mixture over warm cake.
- Place cake under preheated broiler and cook until top is lightly browned, about 3 minutes. Rotate cake as needed for even browning; watch carefully as the top can burn quickly under the broiler.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 366 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 53 g |
| Cholesterol | 65 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 2 g |
| Protein | 4 g |
| Saturated Fat | 9 g |
| Sodium | 253 mg |
| Sugars | 28 g |
| Fat | 17 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
Just tried a slice, excellent!! Eat it warm, Yummy. Diane
Oh wow! Such an amazing cake. I made this for my parents and although my mom doesn’t care for raisins, she loved this cake so much! It is so wonderfully moist and delicious. I loved the flavour. Very simple, very good. Thank you!
I made this for my brother who said it was the best cake he’s ever eaten. Even people who dislike raisins LOVED this cake. This cake is simple and delicious. MAKE THIS CAKE.
I loved it. It’s my husband’s birthday today so I decided to make him a cake and I found this date recipe. I used erythritol instead of regular sugar and also used currants because I have no raisins. Also for the toppings, I used a quarter cup of brown sugar since everytime I followed a recipe for topping that’s asking for half a cup l find it too sweet and it turned out great, not too sweet for us. It really only need a minute and a half for it not to burnt during broiling. I will definitely make it again. Thanks a lot for sharing this wonderful cake recipe.
I made this cake for my family today, the smell is unbelievable and the taste is irresistible. Made few changes, I added more dates than raisins more cream and less sugar. AMAZING I would rate it 10
Very delicious! Moist from the inside and crispy from the outside a good blend of flavors. Although I added the baking soda to the flour instead of adding it to the water but it did not affect the results.
Good tasting cake. I doubled the topping amounts and used pecans instead of walnuts.
I had almonds, instead of walnuts, and this turned out to be perfect to eat with coffee. Also, you can throw on some vanilla or caramel icecream on top and make this a perfect dessert post dinner! Loved it.
It turned out delicious and moist. I did increase the dates to 1 cup and raisins reduced to 1 cup. Added only 1/2 cup white sugar (you could try with 1/4 cup). Added a few more tablespoons of the cream and 1/4 cup brown sugar to reduce the sweetness of the topping.
Really easy and delicious but too sweet. I switched the brown sugar with jaggery and reduced the sugar but it still turned out too sweet.
Loved this recipe. But like all cooks I’ll make a change in the raisin date ratio. I used muscovado sugar in the first attempt and it gave the cake a rich molasses flavor, will use in my next batch!!Everyone loved it. Next time I’m cooking it in a Bundt pan, turning out then glazing it. Thanks for sharing!!
Made this one and loved it. Replaced water with watermelon juice and made topping with brown sugar(bella) cream and peanuts
Made for Pinochle 2019. Very good
It’s a great recipe. Really enjoyed eating it!
Yes ! it’s really easy to make and am yet to taste it !
Substitute dried cranberries for raisins and bit short so added more dates and still turned out wonderfully. Used milk in place of cream and topping delicious. Deep date flavor, d3licious
It wasn’t too sweet and everyone loved it. I didn’t have raisins at the moment so didn’t add it. Thanks for the recipe
So moist and delicious! I added 1/2 cup of chopped walnuts. I gave it a light frosting with cream cheese frosting. I’ll make this again!
Fantastic! Moist, yummy. Next time I will use less raisins and more dates. We were trying to replicate a date cake from a local mediterranean restaurant and this was very, very close except they used honey in the topping. Delicious!
Delicious!
Made this with only dates and reduced the sugar to 1/2cup- it was delicious and the chldren also loved it!