Grandma’s Date Bars

Total Time:Prep: 10 min. Bake: 25 min. + cooling

By Taste Of Home Editorial Team

Recipe by Marilyn Reid, Cherry Creek, New York

Tested by Taste of Home Test Kitchen

Updated on Nov. 14, 2023

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

Yield:16 servings
Prep:10 min
Cook:25 min

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
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Directions

  1. In a large bowl, combine the first 7 ingredients. Transfer to a greased 8-in. square baking pan.
  2. 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.
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