- 8 oz Dateschopped, pitted
- 1 cup Orange juice
- 2 cups All-purpose flour
- 3 tsp Baking powder
- ¾ tsp Cinnamon
- ½ tsp Salt
- ¾ cup Granulated sugar
- 2 Large eggs
- 4 tbsp Buttermelted
Orange Date Bread
This Orange Date Bread gives me the opportunity to bake with one of my favorite dried fruits: dates! I absolutely adore dates. Sweet and sticky and moist, they are increasingly used as a natural sugar substitute in cakes and sweet treats. Soaking dried dates in liquid can help to boost their moisture and flavor. If you like an added crunch, you could add some pecan nuts or walnuts to the batter before baking.
This orange date bread recipe is so easy to make too. Start by heating orange juice in a saucepan. Remove from the heat once the juice simmers and stir in dates. Leave to rest until cool. Meanwhile, add the dry ingredients to a mixing bowl. Once cool, add beaten eggs to the orange and date mixture and combine with the dry ingredients. Bake in the oven and enjoy while still warm!
To make Orange Date Bread, you will need the following ingredients:
Steps to make Orange Date Bread
1 | Heat the oven and prepare a pan | 5 |
Preheat the oven to 350 °F. Lightly grease and flour a 9x5x3-inch loaf pan. | ||
2 | Soak dates in orange juice | 25 |
Bring 1 cup of orange juice to a simmer in a saucepan. Once simmering, remove the pan from the heat and stir in 8 ounces of dates. Let the dates stand in the orange juice for about 25 minutes, until cooled. | ||
3 | Mix dry ingredients | 2 |
Add 2 cups of flour, 3 teaspoons of baking powder, ¾ teaspoon of cinnamon, ½ a teaspoon of salt and ¾ cup of granulated sugar to a large mixing bowl. Stir to combine. | ||
4 | Beat eggs | 1 |
Beat 2 large eggs. | ||
5 | Add eggs and butter to dates | 1 |
Add beaten eggs to the cooled orange and date mixture along with 4 tablespoons of melted butter. | ||
6 | Mix dry and wet ingredients | 3 |
Pour the date mixture into the dry ingredients and mix until well blended. Transfer the date bread batter to the prepared loaf pan. | ||
7 | Bake | 50 |
Bake in the oven for 40-50 minutes until the top of the cake is browned. A toothpick inserted in the center should come out clean. | ||
8 | Serve | 1 |
Serve large slices of this bread while it’s still slightly warm. | ||
Recipe Reviews
Fun recipe! Subbed the sugar for more dates, which I soaked in water and blended into a paste. Fun fact - dates are actually not dried fruit.
Dates are perfect to put in any dessert when you're on a date...lol bad joke but seriously this is great.
Took longer to cook than what is written but not a bad flavor/ taste.
Replaced granulated sugar with brown sugar and glazed this bread with lemon glaze (lemon juice and powdered sugar mixed together)
Another brilliant bread idea from my all time favorite Jelena can't wait to see what else you come up with in the future love, keep making all our stomachs smile.
Great recipe not only is it affordable but the steps are also easy to follow so I'm happy with it.
Vanilla sugar and this orange date bread are the BEST together.
Can't wait to try this out when I get home it looks delicious!
Finally a healthy and sweet bread to look forward to eating every morning.
This goes great with some cream cheese and sweet pickles or even fruits like blueberries.
I cut down on the dates because I wasn't too sure if it would end up being to sweet so instead of 8 i put 5.
I put 1/2 cup of walnuts in this and 1/4 a cup of dried crainberries everything combined perfectly :)
Bookmarking this website ASAP everything on here turns out fantastically.
Serve with some icecream on the top while warm.. thank me later.
Will make it again tasted yummy thanks.
My kids and I gobbled this whole thing right up it was astonishing.
Accidently went with unsalted butter because Im dumb and forgot to read the thing but luckily there wasnt much difference in taste so dont worry if you make the same mistake as i did.
Scrumptious orange date bread even better than the vegan banana one and that's a hard one to top in my opinion since it has so much flavor.
Wasn't too sure about this at first but now that it's baking in the oven I can already smell how good it's going to taste.
Well done! Verified!
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