Food for the Gods - Refreshed

It's been more than 3 years since my last post. Yes, it's true.

Anyway, it's that time of the year for baked goods and lots of delicious food. So here's Food for the Gods again. I posted this in January of 2011. Redundant, yes, but so appropriate for the holiday season. Red and green cellophane wrapper. Threw in clear cellophane as well to brighten the goodies. Reposting the recipe and including vanilla which I missed in the previous post (Malou, thanks for prompting me about this).

Wrapped and ready to go ...

Here's the recipe:

Food for the Gods

Dredge the following in 1/4 cup all-purpose flour:

2 cups chopped walnuts

2 cups chopped dates

Cream together:

3/4 cup brown sugar
3/4 cup white sugar

3/4 cup butter

2 eggs

1 tsp vanilla

Combine ingredients below then add to butter mixture above:

1/4 teaspoon salt

1/2 teaspoon baking soda

1 cup all-purpose flour

Add walnuts and dates. Bake for appoximately 40 minutes at 300F. Cool and slice.

Food for the Gods

(My nephew, Matty, is in town and he helped me with this post. Thanks, Matty!)

Last year, I bought a tub of Medjool dates with the hopes of baking these delicious date-and-nut bars but I never got around to making them. Sad to say, they made it to the trash. 

This holiday season, I finally made a few batches. Yumm-ee!!! See the recipe below courtesy of my dear sister-in-law, Alice (thanks so much!).  

Medjool Dates

Chopped walnuts and dates -- these chunks give texture to the bars.

 

Dredge them in flour to separate the pieces.

  

 White sugar, brown sugar, eggs, butter and vanilla -- all the good stuff!

Together, these ingredients will make a wondeful taste sensation.

We're almost there . . . we just have to wrap them.

 Yumm, moist and chewy!

All wrapped and ready. Attack!

Food for the Gods

Dredge the following in 1/4 cup all-purpose flour:

2 cups chopped walnuts

2 cups chopped dates

Cream together:

3/4 cup brown sugar
3/4 cup white sugar

3/4 cup butter

2 eggs

Add:

1/4 teaspoon salt

1/2 teaspoon baking soda

1 cup all-purpose flour

Add walnuts and dates. Bake for appoximately 40 minutes at 300F. Cool and slice.