Date Bars With Caramel Sauce
"a good friend shared these with me..really good"
- Ready In:
- 1hr
- Ingredients:
- 13
- Serves:
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14
ingredients
- 1⁄2 cup butter, cut in 8 pcs
- 1 1⁄4 cups dates, chopped
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1⁄4 cup sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 1 1⁄2 cups flour
- 1⁄2 cup brown sugar, tbls
- 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
- 1⁄2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 3⁄4 teaspoons baking powder
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CARAMEL SAUCE
- 1⁄2 cup butter
- 1⁄4 cup whipping cream
- 1⁄2 teaspoon vanilla extract
directions
- to prepare cake, preheat oven to 350* --
- butter a 9" springform pan.
- place dates in saucepan, cover with water
- (1 1/2 cups) -- bring to a boil, reduce to simmer and cook 3 minutes.
- add baking soda.mixture will foam -- set aside.
- in large bowl, cream cut up butter, sugar and eggs.adding eggs one at a time.gently mix in flour, salt and vanilla extract -- slowly stir in baking powder and 1/4 cup of liquid from cooking dates till mixture resemble thick pancake batter, drain off remainder of date cooking liquid and discard --
- stir in dates, and combine well.
- bake for 30-40 minutes or cooked in center.
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to prepare CARAMEL SAUCE:
- combine butter, whipping cream, brown sugar and vanilla extract.bring to a boil. reduce heat and simmer and cook 5 minutes.
- to serve, drizzle some sauce over cake as it is cooling --
- serve rest of sauce seperately -- .
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I love cooking, and reading Christian fiction..I have 5 grandchildren..4 boys and 1 spoiled granddaughter...I also have a black cocker spaniel named Tobey..who is very spoiled..Love computer games, cross stitch and reading cookbooks..I was diagnosed with Acute Myeloid Leukemia almost a year ago, on September 26, 2005....was in an out of the hospital for 8 months, doing intensive chemo...I am doing well now, thanks for all the prayers...
