A nice cake for a coffee & cake round on Sunday. Beautifully decorated with dates and salted caramel sauce.
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Preheat oven to 180ºC top & bottom heat.
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Mix flour, sugar, baking powder, cinnamon, salt and baking soda.
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Add the butter. Now mix everything until it becomes a mass.
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Add sour cream and vanilla extract and blend again for a few seconds.
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Now add the eggs one by one until everything is one mass.
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Now fold in the sliced and pitted dates and place in a greased and floured cake pan (e.g. Gugelhupfform) and bake for 40-50 min. Pick with a toothpick into the cake and check if it is baked.
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Allow the cake to cool completely before removing it from the pan.
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For the sauce, simply heat the sugar, salt and butter in a saucepan until everything is mixed.
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Remove the sauce from the heat and fold in the vanilla extract and sour cream.
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Let the sauce cool a little and pour it over the cake. You can garnish the cake with a handful of chopped dates and coarse sea salt.
