Magimix Orange Date Cake

April 2025 Food | Wine

This is a delicious orange date cake made in a Magimix food processor. It never fails. I was employed by Magimix, selling and demonstrating Magimix at this time. Any good food processor will work.

INGREDIENTS:

250 gr dates
200gr margarine
200 ml milk
500 ml flour
250 ml sugar
1½ tsp bicarbonate of soda
3 eggs
1 medium sized orange cut into pieces or blocks with the PEEL ON.

METHOD

Use the S stainless steel blade of your food processor.

Remove the pips from the dates and flour the dates lightly to prevent the dates from sticking to the bowl.
Chop dates and remove from bowl.
In a clean bowl using the same S blade, cream the sugar with the cut up orange and skin and process till fine.
Add the cut up margarine, and process, add the eggs (unbeaten) and the flour mixed with the bicarbonate of soda, alternating with the milk.
Lastly add the dates to the bowl and process to fold in the dates.
Pour the mixture using a spatula into a kugelhopf tin. Tefal is excellent (no need to grease the tin). All other tins need to be sprayed lightly with oil.
Bake at 180 for 45 minutes.
If you want to use this as a dessert, mix 1/2 cup sugar with 3/4 cup of orange juice dissolved and heated over medium heat.
Pour over turned out cake.

Delicious served with ice cream or custard.

ENJOY!

About the author

Fonda Dubb

Fonda was born in Pietersburg, South Africa. After finishing school, she studied ballet at the University of Cape Town Ballet School. During this period, she worked as a fashion model for leading fashion houses. Fondas husband, Mark Dubb, from Port Elizabeth, was an architect, volunteered to "Nachal" in 1956 and completed his Israeli Army training as a paratrooper.

Fonda and Mark made Aliyah to Israel in March, 1988. They have 3 children, all in Israel. After attending the Hebrew Ulpan in Raanana for one month, Fonda was asked to take over a ballet studio for 6 months. Not having the language, it was a nightmare, not being able to discipline and communicate with the children and the parents.

A friend had heard about her love of catering and asked her to do a small function for 50 people in Israel. It was a success, and the next day she was approached to do a function for 250 people. That was how Fonda started catering professionally. In 1989, she opened "Fonda Catering", subsequently working for 15 years as a caterer for the South African Embassy. In addition, she did general catering: bar mitzvahs, weddings, etc.

Her husband Mark, an architect, as well as right-hand man in the catering business, died very suddenly in 1999, at the age of 65. Fonda decided to close her business and moved to Eilat 8 years ago. In Eilat, Fonda started doing voluntary work for WIZO – giving demonstrations and organizing group birthday parties, escorting the blind club on their "tyulim" and helping them whenever needed. She teaches English to children of Ethiopian olim through the medium of cooking, and visits the sick at a convalescent center. One of her projects is selling Ethiopian craftwork for ESRA. She also writes articles for ESRA and TelFed Magazines.

Looking back on her busy life – only part of which is written here – Fonda feels very grateful for the gifts and blessings received.

Fonda received numerous awards from ESRA, including:

In 2002 for founding the Widows/Widowers group
In 2004 for being an English tutor
In 2018 for all her volunteering in ESRA over 30 years – catering for numerous ESRA events; for setting up ESRA in Eilat when she moved to live there and ensuring that it be active and for selling ESRA Ethiopian embroidered goods on the Eilat beachfront.

In 2012 Fonda received the prestigious" Woman of the Year" Award from the Mayor Meir Itzhak Ha'Levi for her volunteering in Eilat.

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