Date Crumble Recipes

DATE CRUMBLE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 355 degrees F (180 degrees C). Grease a 9-inch square baking dish.
• Combine dates, water, 2 tablespoons sugar, and vanilla extract in a saucepan; cook and stir over medium heat until filling mixture forms a paste, about 5 minutes. Add more water if filling gets too thick. Remove saucepan from heat and cool.
• Place flour in a bowl and rub margarine into flour using your hands until mixture resembles bread crumbs; stir in oats and 3/4 cup sugar. Press 1/2 of the mixture into the prepared baking dish. Spoon filling over over crust, smoothing with the back of the spoon, leaving a thin border between the filling and the edge of the dish. Sprinkle the remaining crumble mixture over filling.
• Bake in the preheated oven until top is golden brown, 40 to 45 minutes.

DATE CRUMBLE BARS

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F, then grease & line (with parchment) a 7"x11" cake pan.
• Combine the dates & orange juice in a saucepan & bring to a boil before turning the heat down to low ~ Cover the saucepan & simmer gently for 5 minutes to soften the dates.
• Remove from the heat & mash the date mixture until smooth, then set aside to cool.
• In a mixing bowl, beat together the butter & sugar, then stir in the oats & flour to form a crumbly mixture.
• Press half of this mixture into the base of the prepared pan to form a smooth base, then use a fork to prick the base all over.
• Bake for 10-12 minutes or until lightly golden.
• Spread the date paste over the cooked base & sprinkle the remaining crumbly mixture over that as a topping.
• Return to the oven & bake for another 30 minutes or until lightly golden.
• Remove from the oven, cut into 12 bars & allow to cool in the pan on a wire rack.
• Great served either warm or cold.

DATE CRUMBLE

Steps:

• Crumble Mixture.
• Mix and then rub together the first 6 ingredients.
• Date Mixture.
• Cut up the dates and cover with water.
• Add sugar and salt.
• Cook until the dates are not lumpy.
• Add Vanilla.
• Assemble in Glass Pan.
• Put in half the crumble mixture in a oblong glass baking pan.
• Gently spread the date mixture over the crumble mixture.
• Spread the rest of the crumble mixture over the date mixture.
• Bake in 350F oven until the top and the bottom are golden brown.
• Cut into bars and serve warm or cold.