Grandma's Date Bars Recipe

Grandma's Date Bars Recipe Grandma's Date Bars Recipe photo by Taste of Home Rating 4

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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Grandma's Date Bars Recipe
  • Prep: 10 min. Bake: 25 min. + cooling
  • Yield: 16 Servings
10 25 35

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 eggs, beaten
  • Confectioners' sugar

Directions

  • In a large bowl, combine the first seven ingredients. Transfer to a greased 8-in. square baking pan.
  • Bake at 350° for 25 minutes or until a toothpick inserted near the center comes out clean. Cool on a wire rack. Dust with confectioners' sugar. Cut into squares. Yield: 16 servings.

Nutritional Facts 1 serving (1 each) equals 169 calories, 5 g fat (1 g saturated fat), 40 mg cholesterol, 111 mg sodium, 28 g carbohydrate, 1 g fiber, 4 g protein.

Originally published as Grandma's Date Bars in Reminisce November/December 2001, p50

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Reviewed on Nov. 29, 2010 by jmkasprak

These are great ... they're chewy and sweet, and so hard to stop eating.

Reviewed on Feb. 02, 2010 by Librachild

Saw this recipe this morning and made it this very afternoon and have already enjoyed two pieces with my glass of 2 % milk.Definitely delicious and very easy to assemble.

Reviewed on Jun. 09, 2009 by cowdogmom

This is exactly the recipe I inherited from my German grandmother (I am almost 70) except she baked them in a 9 x 13 pan, which made them very thin. These are so very good.

 
 

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