Date Nut Bread
Bake a loaf of old-fashioned date nut bread with our simple recipe, featuring dates, nuts, & coffee for enhanced flavors & sweetness.
Servings: 10 Servings
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Ingredients
DATE NUT BREAD RECIPE
- 2 cups Medjool dates chopped
- 4 tablespoons unsalted butter melted
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 1 cup hot coffee or boiling hot water
- 1 large egg or 1 flax egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- ½ teaspoon baking powder
- 1 ¾ cups all-purpose flour
- 1 cup pecans or walnuts,, chopped
Instructions
Instructions How to Make Date Nut Bread
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees and line a 9x5-inch loaf pan with parchment paper. Spray with non-stick cooking spray and set loaf pan aside.
- Add the chopped dates, baking soda, salt, brown sugar and melted butter to a large mixing bowl.
- Add the coffee or hot water to the date mixture and stir everything together. Let mixture set for 15 minutes.
- Add the egg and vanilla extract and combine, then whisk in the baking powder.
- Fold in the flour using a rubber spatula combining everything together without overmixing the bread mixture.
- Fold the nuts into the batter.
- Transfer batter to the prepared pan and bake for 45-55 minutes. If bread is getting too dark, loosely add tin foil to cover the top of the bread. I added foil the last 15 minutes of baking the bread. Check bread with a toothpick and insert it into the middle of the bread. If it comes out wet, continue baking longer. If it comes out clean or with moist crumbs, it's done baking.
- Remove bread from oven and let it cool. So rich & moist!