How To Make Best Date Squares Ever
Layered with an oatmeal base and honey dates in citrus juice, these date squares are a classic Canadian dessert that’s baked into sweet, golden bars.
Serves:
Ingredients
- 4cupschopped pitted honey dates
- ¾cuporange juice
- ½tsplemon juice
- 2cupswhole wheat flour
- 2cupsquick cooking oats
- ¾cupbrown sugar
- ½tspbaking powder
- ½tspbaking soda
- ½tspsalt
- 1½cupsunsalted butter,melted and cooled
Instructions
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Preheat oven to 325 degrees F. Grease a 9×11-inch baking pan and line with parchment paper.
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Heat dates, orange juice, and lemon juice in a large saucepan over medium-low heat, stirring often for about 6 minutes until the dates are soft.
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Stir whole-wheat flour, oats, brown sugar, baking powder, baking soda, and salt together in a large bowl. Stir in melted butter. Press half of the oat mixture evenly into the prepared pan.
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Spread date mixture evenly over oat mixture; sprinkle remaining oat mixture evenly over date mixture and press down lightly.
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Bake in the preheated oven for about 20 minutes until golden.
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Allow to cool in the pan to room temperature for about 30 minutes. Refrigerate for about 1 hour until chilled before cutting into squares.
Nutrition
- Calories: 310.95kcal
- Fat: 12.73g
- Saturated Fat: 7.49g
- Trans Fat: 0.47g
- Monounsaturated Fat: 3.30g
- Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.88g
- Carbohydrates: 49.22g
- Fiber: 4.98g
- Sugar: 30.03g
- Protein: 4.38g
- Cholesterol: 30.50mg
- Sodium: 85.97mg
- Calcium: 49.53mg
- Potassium: 378.13mg
- Iron: 1.37mg
- Vitamin A: 100.44µg
- Vitamin C: 3.92mg
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