a date bar with chocolate. These bars from my mother’s friend Bernie were a part of my early Christmas recollections. Fantastically rich.
| Prep Time: | 20 mins |
| Cook Time: | 35 mins |
| Total Time: | 55 mins |
| Servings: | 30 |
| Yield: | 30 small bars |
Ingredients
- 1 ⅓ cups chopped dates
- 2 ½ (1 ounce) squares unsweetened chocolate
- ⅔ cup water
- 1 ⅓ cups white sugar
- ¼ cup butter
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 ¼ cups packed brown sugar
- ¾ cup butter
- 1 ½ cups quick-cooking oats
- 1 ½ cups all-purpose flour
- 1 cup chopped walnuts
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon salt
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease an 8×10-inch baking pan.
- Cook and stir dates, chocolate, water, white sugar, and 1/4 cup butter in a heavy saucepan over medium-low heat until melted and thickened, 5 to 10 minutes. Remove from heat; stir in vanilla extract. Set aside to cool.
- Beat brown sugar and 3/4 cup butter together in a bowl until creamy. Add oats, flour, walnuts, baking soda, and salt; stir until texture is crumbly.
- Press half the oat mixture into bottom of the prepared pan. Evenly spread chocolate-date mixture over oat mixture layer; crumble remaining oat mixture over chocolate-date layer.
- Bake in the preheated oven until topping is lightly browned, about 30 minutes. Cut into 30 small squares.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 222 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 33 g |
| Cholesterol | 16 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 2 g |
| Protein | 2 g |
| Saturated Fat | 5 g |
| Sodium | 107 mg |
| Sugars | 23 g |
| Fat | 10 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
They tasted great, mine turned out pretty crumbly so not my favorite to serve.
These are delicious. I think next time i would cut down on the sugar to 1 cup. Definitely a go to recipe for a special dessert.
Awesome!! 4 1/2
I tried this recipe, but with the coffee variation mentioned above. Very rich. Next time I will cut the sugar
Delicious! I had been wanting to make these since the picture was posted. The only change I made was to use brewed coffee in the date/chocolate mixture instead of water. Loved these!
Finding a large bag of dates in my cupboard, I set out to find something to make with them. Finding this recipe and discovering that the dates were mixed with chocolate, I thought my family would like them as they are not huge date fans. I made as directed, but changed the pan size to 11 x 7 because I did not have an 8 x 10 pan. I also made half the pan with walnuts and the other half without for my son. The results were a nice chewy bar with a crunchy topping. I thoroughly enjoyed the end results, but I love dates. The guys liked them, but kept asking what the middle layer was. I told them “chocolate” but they knew there was something else in there. I just kept them guessing. I thought they were repeat worthy, the guys said “once is enough”.