Date Cake with Mango

Ingredients

• 100 g fresh dates
• 2 Eggs
• 3 tbsp Rapeseed oil
• 100 g low-fat quark
• 160 g whole grain flour (e.g., wheat or spelt whole grain flour)
• 1.5 tsp Baking Powder
• 1 tsp cinnamon
• 450 g ripe mango (1 ripe mango)
• 10 g butter (2 tsp)

Instructions

1. 1.

   Halve the dates, pit them and put them in a large mixing bowl. Puree finely with an immersion blender.

2. 2.

   Add eggs, oil and quark and whisk everything until creamy with a hand mixer.

3. 3.

   In another bowl mix the flour with baking powder and cinnamon. Sift this into the date cream and fold in. If the batter is too thick, add a little water.

4. 4.

   Wash, peel the mango, cut the flesh into slices from the stone and dice it.

5. 5.

   Grease a small rectangular baking dish (about 27 x 18 cm) with butter. Pour in the batter and smooth it with a spatula.

6. 6.

   Distribute the mango cubes on top and bake in a preheated oven at 180 °C (fan‑forced 160 °C; gas: level 2–3) on the middle rack for 35–40 minutes. Remove, let cool in the pan, then cut into ten equal pieces, lift out of the pan and serve.