Banana Date Cake

Dates, I LOVE dates. No-I really really really love dates. I don’t know why but I think it has something to do with being Middle Eastern. It must be in my blood...that and eggplants. So I bought a big package of dates the other day and wanted to make something with them. I have this great recipe for banana date cake and I thought PERFECT! I love things like this because I am not a sweets person. I don‘t like anything overly sweet. But stuff like this is right up my alley. Having a slice of banana date bread and a cup tea, after supper, is perfection in book. The best part of this whole thing is that my husband loves it too and getting us two to agree on anything is nothing less than monumental.

Banana Date Cake or... Bread

Ingredients
5 very ripe bananas mashed
1 cup chopped dates, dusted with flour
1 stick butter
1 cup sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp Vanilla Extract
2 cups all purpose flour
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
pinch of salt
1 tsp ground cinnamon
1/2 cup Greek yogurt

Directions
1. Preheat oven to 350. Grease a Bundt pan
2. Sift all the dry ingredients. Set aside.
3. Place butter and sugar in the bowl of an electric mixer and blend until smooth. Add eggs one a time, vanilla extract, mashed bananas, yogurt, cinnamon. Mix in dry ingredients.
4. Add dates to mixture. Make sure you’ve tossed the dates in flour or they will all sink to the bottom of your cake.
5. Spoon mixture into bundt pan
6. Bake for about 1 hour 15 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the cake comes out clean

Enjoy!