You wouldn’t know it by eating these sweet squares, but they contain less sugar than other recipes. Allow the squares to sit at room temperature for 15 minutes before serving.
| Prep Time: | 20 mins |
| Cook Time: | 30 mins |
| Additional Time: | 1 hr 30 mins |
| Total Time: | 2 hrs 20 mins |
| Servings: | 24 |
| Yield: | 24 squares |
Ingredients
- 4 cups chopped pitted honey dates
- ¾ cup orange juice
- ½ teaspoon lemon juice
- 2 cups whole wheat flour
- 2 cups quick-cooking oats
- ¾ cup brown sugar
- ½ teaspoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 1 ½ cups unsalted butter, melted and cooled
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Grease a 9×11-inch baking pan and line with parchment paper.
- Heat dates, orange juice, and lemon juice in a large saucepan over medium-low heat, stirring often, until dates are soft, about 6 minutes.
- 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.
- Spread date mixture evenly over oat mixture; sprinkle remaining oat mixture evenly over date mixture and press down lightly.
- Bake in the preheated oven until golden, about 20 minutes. Allow to cool in the pan to room temperature, about 30 minutes. Refrigerate until chilled before cutting into squares, about 1 hour.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 251 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 36 g |
| Cholesterol | 31 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 4 g |
| Protein | 3 g |
| Saturated Fat | 7 g |
| Sodium | 89 mg |
| Sugars | 21 g |
| Fat | 12 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
Best is an understatement. These are spectacular!
awesome easy recipe. My MIL was craving date squares so I whipped up a batch for her and now she requests it all the time! I did tweak it just a wee bit. I used a full cup of orange juice and just simmered the chopped dates until they were a nice gooey texture. I didnt have whole wheatflour so I just used regular all purpose flour and because my MIL is diabetic I used Splenda brown sugar. FYI Im not a date fan so I experimented with craisins and it was faaaaaabulous
Easy to make. I like that there is only 3/4 cup of brown sugar in this recipe.
The sugar could be reduced here. I made half the recipe in a 8×8 pan, yielding 16 squares. I think there is too much butter and not enough oats but it is a good starting point. Thanks, Suzanne.