Date Walnut Double Decker
photo by helen s.
- Ready In:
- 40mins
- Ingredients:
- 13
- Serves:
-
18
ingredients
- 1 1⁄4 cups sifted flour
- 1⁄3 cup granulated sugar
- 1⁄2 cup butter or 1/2 cup margarine
- 1⁄3 cup packed light brown sugar
- 1⁄3 cup granulated sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 2 tablespoons flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1⁄4 teaspoon salt
- 1⁄4 teaspoon nutmeg (optional)
- 1 cup chopped walnuts
- 8 ounces dates, snipped or chopped
directions
- Combine first 3 ingredients and blend into fine crumbs. Press into bottom of a greased 9 inch square pan. Bake at 350 F for about 20 minutes, until edges are lightly browned.
- Combine brown sugar and remaining white sugar, eggs and vanilla and beat together well.
- Sift flour and nutmeg with baking powder and salt and add to first mixture.
- Stir in walnuts and dates.
- Turn batter into pan over hot baked pastry layer. Bake at 350 F for 20 minutes.
- Cool in pan, sprinkle top with powdered sugar if desired. Cut into 18 bars.
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I love spending time in the kitchen, gardening, teapots, pansies and small mischievious boys! I am a crops diagnostician in the real world.