Orange zest maple date bars
A delicious lacto ovo vegetarian dessert, Orange Zest Maple Date Bars are a sweet treat made with a mixture of orange zest, butter, and ground flax seed. This recipe covers 11% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals and takes approximately 45 minutes to prepare. Perfect for a holiday dessert or special occasion.
Ingredients
medjool dates
1.75 cups
water
0.75 cup
maple syrup
1 cup
orange zest
3 strips
cane sugar
0.67 cup
butter
0.5 cup
flour
4.5 ounces
oats
1 cup
baking soda
0.25 tsps
salt
0.25 tsps
ground flaxseed
2 Tbsps
Method
- Pit the dates and chop them up into little pieces. In a medium sauce pan, combine water, dates and maple syrup and bring to a boil, stirring often. Once at a boil, add the citrus peels and stir. Turn the heat down to medium and cook down until most of the water is gone. When it starts to look like jam, its done.
- Place sauce pan in a freezer to quickly cool down the mixture.
- When date jam is cooled, preheat the oven to 400F and begin to prepare the rest of the recipe.
- Combine flour, baking soda, salt and oats in a bowl and whisk together.
- In another large mixing bowl, beat sugar and butter until creamy.
- Add the dry ingredients to the butter and cream and mix with a spatula or large wooden spoon until completely mixed. The texture will look quite crumbly.
- Coat a 13x9-inch metal baking pan with cooking spray. Then begin layering your ingredients carefully.
- Layer half of the crumb mixture and press down in the pan to make the bottom layer crust.
- B.CAREFULLY spread your date jam on top of the crumb crust using a spatula sprayed with some oil.
- C.Finally, sprinkle the remainder of the crumb mixture on top of the date jam.
- Bake for about 20-30 minutes, until the top is golden.
- Cool completely before cutting.
Nutrition:
Carbs
87 g
Fat
13 g
Protein
4 g
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