
Grandma’s Date Bars
Total Time
Prep: 10 min. Bake: 25 min. + cooling
Yield
16 servings
These nicely textured bars are delicious. It's a good recipe for today's diet awareness, because there's no shortening used.
My great-grandmother, who was born in 1868, made these bars, and the recipe has come down through the generations. Now my children are making them.
-Marilyn Reid, Cherry Creek, New York
Ingredients
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup chopped dates
- 1 cup chopped walnuts
- 3 large eggs, room temperature, beaten
- Confectioners' sugar
Directions
- In a large bowl, combine the first 7 ingredients. Transfer to a greased 8-in. square baking pan.
- Bake at 350° for 25 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool on a wire rack. Dust with confectioners' sugar. Cut into squares.
Nutrition Facts
1 bar: 169 calories, 5g fat (1g saturated fat), 40mg cholesterol, 111mg sodium, 28g carbohydrate (19g sugars, 1g fiber), 4g protein.
These nicely textured bars are delicious. It's a good recipe for today's diet awareness, because there's no shortening used.
My great-grandmother, who was born in 1868, made these bars, and the recipe has come down through the generations. Now my children are making them.
-Marilyn Reid, Cherry Creek, New York
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