Date Square Recipes- an oatmeal date filled bar which makes a great afternoon tea.

Date Squares Recipe

A lovely afternoon snack with your cup of tea

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Course Dessert

Ingredients

  

Crumb mixture

• 1 cup flour
• 1 cup quick cooking rolled oats
• ⅔ cup brown sugar
• ¼ tsp baking soda
• 125 grams butter

Date filling

• 1⅓ cup pitted whole dates finely chopped
• ½ cup water
• ⅓ cup granulated sugar
• 2 Tbsp lemon juice
• ½ tsp vanilla

Instructions

 

To make date filling

• In a medium saucepan combine dates, water and sugar. Bring to a boil, then reduce the heat to cook. Stir for about 2 minutes until thick paste forms. Remove from heat and add lemon juice and vanilla. Set aside to cool

To make crumb mixture

• In a medium bowl combine flour, rolled oats, brown sugar and baking soda. Using a pastry cutter or your hands cut the butter into the dry mixture until it looks like coarse crumbs.

To form bars

• Preheat oven to 180 C. Grease a 9 x 9 inch baking pan.
• Divide the base into two portions- ⅔ for base and ⅓ for top.
• Press the bottom crumb mixture into the prepared baking pan.
• Spread date filling on base then sprinkle remaining crumb mixture over top
• Bake for 30 to 35 minutes or until golden on top. Cool in pan, then cut in bars

Keyword date square