Stuffed Date Bars Recipe
Recipe Ingredients
30 each dates, large, slitted length
30 each pecan halves, small
BARS
1/4 cup butter or margarine, melted
1 cup brown sugar, packed
1/2 cup sour cream
2 each eggs, large, beaten
1 tsp vanilla
1 cup flour, unbleached
1/4 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp salt
1/4 tsp ginger, ground
Recipe Preparation
Slit the dates (about 8 ozs worth) and stuff with pecan halves; set
aside. In saucepan melt butter or margarine and stir in brown sugar
until well blended. Remove from heat; cool to lukewarm. Blend in sour
cream, eggs, and vanilla; mix thoroughly. Stir together the flour,
baking powder, baking soda, salt and ginger. Add to sour cream
mixture; mix well. Pour into a greased 13 X 9 X 2-inch baking pan.
Carefully arrange stuffed dates atop batter in lengthwise rows with 6
stuffed dates in each row. Bake at 350 degrees F. for 25 to 30
minutes. Cool; cut into bars, allowing 1 date per par. Sift
powdered sugar over the top if desired.
Makes 30 bars.
Servings: 8
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