Delicious no-bake date cake

Browsing through some older photos, I found pics of this delicious date cake. In case you're still in need of an Xmas success recipe, here's your no-bake ticket to fame.

The recipe is from the Dutch 'Bagels & Beans' franchise, who serve this cake and are awesome enough to share the recipe:

• 500 gr dates (without pits and cut into slices)
• 250 gr dairy butter (Dutch: roomboter)
• 150 gr brown caster sugar (Dutch: bruine basterdsuiker)
• 1 hand of walnuts, chopped into fine pieces
• 1 tube of Marie biscuits, broken in pieces of about 1 cm (Dutch: een rol maria biscuitjes)
• 1 egg
• Caramel sirup (or praline/butterscotch sirup)
• Cocos flakes for decoration (I like to use quite a bit, as you can see on the photo ;) )

1. Carefully melt the butter
2. Add sugar and stir it thoroughly so that the suger dissolves a bit
3. Beat the egg with a whisk (Dutch: ei goed loskloppen met garde) and add to butter and sugar; while stirring it thoroughly, let it boil for a short while
4. Add two shots of caramel sirup, boil for a bit longer
5. Add dates, stir well and let boil for 1 minute
6. Add biscuits and walnuts, mix everything
7. Pour everything in a greased spring cake tin (Dutch: springvorm), flatten it well with the back of a tabletspoon, and let it cool for about 1 1/2 hour. The cake should be about 1 1/2 cm thick. When it has cooled, pour the cocos over it and enjoy!