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Date & Walnut Sherry Cake with Sherry Cream Glaze

This is a delicious choice around the holidays. It is a rather large, dense cake, filled with dates and walnuts and wonderfully flavored with spices.

1 cup butter (2 sticks) softened
2 cups sugar
6 eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla

1/2 cup sherry

2 cups flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
2 teaspoons cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon powdered cloves
1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg

2 cups chopped dates
2 cups chopped toasted walnuts
2 tablespoons flour

Beat together butter and sugar until mixture is creamy. Beat in eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in the sherry. Stir together the next 6 ingredients and add, all at once, beating until blended. Toss together dates, walnuts and flour and add, beating until blended.

Spread batter into a greased and floured 10-inch springform pan and bake in a 325° oven for 55 minutes, or until a cake tester, inserted in center, comes our clean. Allow to cool in pan.

When cool, drizzle top with Sherry Cream Glaze and allow a little to run down the sides. This is a large cake and yields 12 generous servings

Sherry Cream Glaze:
Stir together 2 tablespoons sherry and 1 cup sifted powdered sugar until blended. Drizzle on the top and down the sides of cooled cake.

 

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