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• Recipe Overview
• Ingredients
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• Instructions

• Cuisine

  Australasian >> Australian >> Australian

• Dietary Style

• Source

  Genius Kitchen(food.com)

| 1. Preheat oven to 180°C Line 18 holes of muffin pans (1/3 cup measure) with paper cases. This recipe uses 'regular' muffin pan size not the Texan/large style. | 2. Combine the dates and 1 1/4 cups boiling water in a small saucepan, Bring to the boil over low-medium heat and simmer for 3 minutes. | 3. Remove from the heat and mash lightly with a potato masher. Stir in the bicarb/baking soda and allow to stand for 5 minutes. | 4. Stir in the butter and brown sugar into the warm date mixture until the butter melts and the sugar dissolves. | 5. Stir in the eggs until combined. | 6. SIft in the flour and ginger, then fold in with a metal spoon until combined. | 7. Divide the mixture into the paper cases and smooth the mixture over with the back of a spoon. | 8. Bake 15 minutes or until the tops are firm when touched. | 9. Remove from the oven and cool in the pan for 5 minutes before transferring to a wire rack to cool. | 10. To make the icing- combine the butter, brown sugar and the cream in a small saucepan over a low heat, stir until the sugar dissolves. | 11. Bring the mixture to just below boiling point, then reduce the heat to low-medium and simmer for 2 minutes, stirring until thickened. | 12. Remove from the heat and gradually beat in the ising sugar until smooth. | 13. Spread the icing onto cakes and decorate by sprinkling with the optional sugar. | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Estimated Nutritional Profile for Ingredients

Ingredient Name	Quantity	Unit	State	Energy (kcal)	Carbohydrates	Protein (g)	Total Lipid (Fat) (g)
date	1 1/4	cups	pitted	518.175	137.8676	4.5019	0.7166
water	1 1/4	1/4	boiling	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
bicarbonate soda	1	teaspoon		-	-	-	-
butter	100	g	unsalted softened chopped	570.0	26.19	17.81	48.0
brown sugar	3/4	cup		627.0	161.8485	0.198	0.0
egg	2		beaten	143.0	0.72	12.56	9.51
self raising flour	1 1/2	1/2		-	-	-	-
ginger	1	teaspoon	ground	1.6	0.3554	0.0364	0.015
butter	60	g	unsalted	570.0	26.19	17.81	48.0
dark brown sugar	1/2	cup		-	-	-	-
pouring cream	1/4	cup		-	-	-	-
icing sugar	3/4	cup	sifted	-	-	-	-
demerara sugar				627.0	161.8485	0.198	0.0

- Means that suitable USDA nutrition profile could not be mapped for this ingredient-unit combination.