This bread/cake will feed 4 to 6 people and is high in dietary fibre.
Ingredients are
300 gr dates
150 gr ground almonds
150 gr caster sugar
3 tablespoons butter
4 eggs
1 tsp vanilla essence
3 tablespoons cornflour
2 cl Cointreau
50 gr almond slivers
Pre-heat the oven to 175C
Take the stones out of the dates and cut the dates into small pieces. Mix with 100gr of the sugar and the ground almonds.
Seperate the eggs and take the egg yolks and mix them with the remaining 50 grs of sugar and vanilla essence.
Melt the butter and mix in the cornflour, the dates, ground almonds, sugar, egg yolks and Cointreau. Stir until well-mixed.
Whip up the eggs whites until stiff and fold into the above mixture.
Butter a round cake dish and line with greaseproof paper. Pour in the cake mixture. Sprinkle almond slivers on the top and bake for 30 minutes in the middle of the oven at 175C.
Enjoy!