Date Nut Bars

Excellent & easy Christmas cookie our family wouldn't have Christmas without......This is my great grandmothers recipe & has been passed down because there is nothing that tastes quite like it!!!!

• Ready In: 50 mins
• Serves: 30
• Yields: 30 cookies/bars

Ingredients

• 2 1⁄4 cups flour
• 3  teaspoons baking powder
• 1 1⁄2 teaspoons salt
• 6  eggs
• 3  cups dark brown sugar
• 1 1⁄2 cups walnuts, finely chopped
• 3  cups  chopped dates (buy pre chopped for ease)
• 3  teaspoons vanilla extract
• 3⁄4 cup  melted butter
• 2  cups confectioners' sugar, for after they come out of the oven

Directions

1. Sift together first 3 ingredients.
2. In a separate large bowl beat eggs & nuts adding brown sugar slowly.
3. add rest of ingredients including melted butter (but not confectioners sugar) add flour mixture last.
4. pour into well greased & floured 9 x 12 pan.
5. bake @ 350 for 35 minute.
6. prepare Large flat cotton towel or old tablecloth on flat surface that is spread with confectioners suger slightly larger than your 9 x 12 pan.
7. when you take them out of the oven invert the pan on to the confectioners sugar.
8. sprinkle more confectioners sugar on top.
9. VERY IMPORTANT>>>>while STILL HOT cut with large knife into bite sized cookies
10. let cool then store in covered container without stacking layers.
11. these are a soft chewey cookie & will become a family favorite, I guarantee.