Date Crumb Cake with Chocolate Chip Streusel

recipe from rock recipes

Date Mixture

1 1/4 cups boiling water
1 cup dates, very fine dice
1 tsp baking soda

Combine the boiling water, chopped dates and baking soda.

Set aside to cool down to almost room temperature, then mash dates to a rough puree (do not drain! mash the water and dates together).

Chocolate Chip Streusel

3/4 cup chocolate chips
74 g brown sugar
2.5 oz flour
42 g soft butter

Rub together all of the ingredients with your fingers until crumbly.

Coffee Cake Batter

8.75 oz flour
220 g brown sugar
1 tsp baking soda
pinch salt
2/3 cup vegetable oil
2 tsp vanilla
2 eggs, room temp

Preheat oven to 350 F. Line the bottom of a 9-inch springform pan with parchment paper and coat with cooking spray.

Sift together the flour, brown sugar, baking soda and salt.

Blend in the vegetable oil, vanilla extract, eggs and prepared date mixture.

Pour this batter into the prepared pan. Sprinkle streusel topping over the batter.

Bake at 350 F for 55 min or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.

Cool in the pan for about 15-20 minutes before releasing the cake from the pan.

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