Toffee Walnut Date Cake

Toffee Walnut Date Cake

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A festive but simple, delicately spiced, just-sweet-enough cake, topped with the stickiest date caramel and studded with toasted walnuts.

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Ingredients

  • 2 cups Medjool dates, pitted and roughly chopped into ½-inch pieces
  • 4 tablespoons unsalted butter
  • 2 tablespoons water
  • 2/3 cup packed light brown sugar
  • 1/3 cup toasted walnuts, roughly chopped
  • 4 large eggs, room temperature
  • 1/2 cup light brown sugar, packed
  • 1/3 cup mild extra virgin olive oil
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1 ½ cups almond flour
  • 2/3 cup all-purpose flour, plus 1 tablespoon
  • ½ teaspoon baking powder
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1 teaspoon kosher salt
  • 1/2 teaspoon ground cardamom
  • 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
  • ½ cup walnuts, toasted and roughly chopped
  • ½ cup heavy cream
  • ½ vanilla bean pod, scraped

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