How To Make Date and Nut Bars
Walnuts and dates create a crunchy, sticky, and delicious treat in these nut bars. The dessert is nicely spiced with nutmeg and cinnamon.
Serves:
Ingredients
- ½cupboiling water
- 2cupsdates,pitted and chopped
- ½cupshortening
- 1cupwhite sugar
- ⅛tspground cinnamon
- ¾tspsalt
- ⅛tspground nutmeg
- 1cupall purpose flour
- ¼tspbaking soda
- ½cupwalnuts,chopped
- ¼cupconfectioners sugar
Instructions
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In a small bowl, pour boiling water over dates, and set aside to cool. Preheat oven to 325 degrees F. Grease a 10×10 inch baking pan.
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In a medium bowl, cream together the shortening and white sugar. Add eggs, one at a time, beating after each addition.
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Add the dates, including any water; mix well. Sift together the flour, cinnamon, nutmeg, and baking soda; stir into the date mixture. Then stir in the nuts.
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Spread the mixture evenly into the prepared 10×10 inch pan, and bake for 45 minutes in the preheated oven.
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When cool, cut into bars, and roll each bar in confectioners’ sugar.
Nutrition
- Calories: 303.05kcal
- Fat: 9.50g
- Saturated Fat: 2.39g
- Trans Fat: 1.13g
- Monounsaturated Fat: 3.80g
- Polyunsaturated Fat: 2.66g
- Carbohydrates: 55.33g
- Fiber: 2.82g
- Sugar: 44.07g
- Protein: 2.68g
- Cholesterol: 26.66mg
- Sodium: 183.29mg
- Calcium: 30.72mg
- Potassium: 283.38mg
- Iron: 0.97mg
- Vitamin A: 14.10µg
- Vitamin C: 0.00mg
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