Walnut and Date cake

Ingredients:
Dates chopped 1 cup
Sugar ¾ cup
Flour 1 ½ cup
Butter 114 gram
Walnut ½ cup
Eggs 3
Salt pinch
Baking powder 1 ½ cup
Vanilla essence 1 tsp
Water ½ cup

Method:
1.Remove seed from dates. Soak them in ½ cup boiling water for 30 minutes.
2.Beat butter and sugar till light and fluffy.
3.Add egg one by one, fold in the soaked dates.
4.In a bowl add vanilla essence and salt. Sieve together flour and baking powder. Mix in walnuts.
5.Add this mixture to the batter. Mix well.
6.Pour in a greased pan.
7.Bake in a pre heated oven 180 C for 40 minutes.