Sticky Date Bars
These bars are moreish - not good for my post pregnancy diet, but hey it's nearly Christmas so the diet can wait until January. In any case I'm in need of energy boosting snacks at the moment - who said second babies were easier!
STICKY DATE BARS
Yield: 12 bars
Sticky Date Bars
A sticky date bar recipe
prep time: 10 minscook time: 40 minstotal time: 50 mins
ingredients:
- 250g Dates, pitted, chopped
- 200ml Water
- 175g Plain Flour
- 1/2 TSP Bicarb of Soda
- 175g soft light brown sugar
- 100g Porridge Oats
- Pinch Salt
- 175g Butter, diced
instructions
- Step 1:Preheat oven to 180c/160CFan. Butter the sides of a 20cm cake tin and line with baking paper.
- Step 2: Place the dates and water into a pan and bring to a simmer - cook for 10 minutes until syrupy. Cool to room temperature.
- Step 3: Sift the flour and bicarbonate of soda into a bowl and stir in the sugar, oats and salt. Add the butter and rub in using fingertips.
- Step 4: Press half mixture over base and press down firmly, spread over date mixture then scatter over other half of crumb mix and press down lightly.
- Step 5: Bake for 40 minutes, cool then cut into squares.
These look good, half crumble, half flapjack. Forget the diet, all the running around after two will make the weight fall off! You definitely deserve these.
ReplyDeleteI love dates and the toffee flavour they give to everything.
ReplyDeleteThese and a cup of tea would be perfect!
These look so good, but I know my son wouldn't eat them, and OH and I can't afford the extra calories of eating something like this by ourselves.
ReplyDeleteThere is always room for another tasty treat over the holidays.
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