How to Cook Appetizing Date Nut Bread

Date Nut Bread. This is a moist, dense date bread with your choice of nuts -walnuts or pecans, almonds or hazelnuts. Put the dates, walnuts, baking soda, salt and shortening in a bowl. Prepare a loaf pan by spraying with cooking spray.

Date Nut Bread The recipe features walnuts, though pecans are nice as well. The recipe features walnuts, though pecans are nice as well. Since it’s a quick bread, no yeast or kneading is required and it’s ready to eat in just over an hour. You can cook Date Nut Bread using 12 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Date Nut Bread

  1. Prepare 1 1/2 cup of chopped dates.
  2. Prepare 4 tbsp of unsalted butter, at room temperature.
  3. It’s 1 tsp of baking soda.
  4. It’s 1/2 tsp of salt.
  5. It’s 2/3 cup of light brown sugar, packed.
  6. It’s 1 cup of buttermilk.
  7. Prepare 1 of large egg.
  8. Prepare 1 tsp of vanilla extract.
  9. It’s 1/2 tsp of baking powder.
  10. It’s 1 3/4 cup of all-purpose flour.
  11. Prepare 1/2 cup of honey roasted cashews, ( or nut you prefer ) halfs and pieces plus about 10 whole ones to garnish top, garnish is optional..
  12. You need 1/2 tsp of ground cinnamon.

In a large bowl, combine the flour, sugar, walnuts, baking soda and salt. This is a dark, moist date nut bread like Thomas’s or Dromedary –with the deep flavor or molasses! Healthy too–low fat and increased fiber. Don’t use the packaged chopped dates as they contain added sugar.

Date Nut Bread step by step

  1. Preheat oven to 350. Spray a 8 1/2 inch by 4 1/2 inch loaf pan with non stick spray.
  2. In a large bowl add dates, butter, baking soda, salt and brown sugar.
  3. Heat buttermilk.just until.hot, pour over date mixture, stir and let stand 15 minutes.
  4. Add egg, vanilla,baking powder, cinnamon and flour, stir well to combine.
  5. Stir in cahews.
  6. Spoon into prepared pan. Place the whole cashews in a line on top of batter. Bake 55 to 65 minutes or until a skewer comes out clean.
  7. Cool in pan on rack about 15 minutes, then run a sharp knife around edges to release bread. Cool. This bread slices best if cooled overnight. It keeps very well wrapped in plastic wrap. It can Also be frozen whole or in sliced.

You can also make the loaf with white flour only. Combine sugar and butter in bowl. Beat at medium speed, scraping bowl often, until creamy. The Date Nut Bread is good, a bit dryer than I thought it would be (the loaves baked in less time than noted in the recipe; all ovens vary), but still tasty. This was more of a tea bread.

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