A great snack cake to take to PTA meetings, potlucks and picnics. Or wrap up a piece for your briefcase or lunch box!
Take-Along Chocolate Chip-Date Cake
- Prep Time 20 min
- Total 3 hr 30 min
- Servings 12
- Ingredients 16
Ingredients
Dates
- 1 1/4 cups boiling water
- 1 cup chopped dates
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
Chocolate Chip Topping
- 1/2 cup semisweet chocolate chips
- 1/2 cup chopped nuts
- 1/4 cup packed brown sugar
- 1/4 cup Gold Medal™ all-purpose flour
- 1 tablespoon butter or margarine, softened
Cake
- 1 3/4 cups Gold Medal™ all-purpose flour
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 1/2 cup packed brown sugar
- 2/3 cup vegetable oil
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 2 eggs

Make With
Gold Medal Flour
Instructions
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Step1In large bowl, pour boiling water on dates. Stir in 1 teaspoon baking soda. Cool about 15 minutes or until lukewarm.
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Step2In small bowl, mix all topping ingredients; set aside.
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Step3Heat oven to 350°F. Stir all cake ingredients into date mixture. Pour into ungreased 9-inch square pan. Sprinkle with topping.
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Step4Bake 50 to 55 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool completely, about 2 hours.
Nutrition
410
Calories
20g
Total Fat
5g
Protein
54g
Total Carbohydrate
35g
Sugars
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size: 1 Serving
- Calories
- 410
- Calories from Fat
- 180
- Total Fat
- 20g
- 30%
- Saturated Fat
- 4g
- 21%
- Trans Fat
- 0g
- Cholesterol
- 40mg
- 13%
- Sodium
- 330mg
- 14%
- Potassium
- 230mg
- 6%
- Total Carbohydrate
- 54g
- 18%
- Dietary Fiber
- 2g
- 10%
- Sugars
- 35g
- Protein
- 5g
% Daily Value*:
- Vitamin A
- 0%
- 0%
- Vitamin C
- 0%
- 0%
- Calcium
- 4%
- 4%
- Iron
- 10%
- 10%
Exchanges:
1 Starch; 0 Fruit; 2 1/2 Other Carbohydrate; 0 Skim Milk; 0 Low-Fat Milk; 0 Milk; 0 Vegetable; 0 Very Lean Meat; 0 Lean Meat; 0 High-Fat Meat; 4 Fat;Carbohydrate Choice
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