Fire up your oven and get your favorite cutlery ready for 3 Date takes on traditional Christmas Dishes. Be the talk of the table with these delightful Holiday Recipes! Post your plate and let us know how much you love them by tagging @oasis.date.garden on instagram.
Top 3 Date-Based Recipes:
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Gluten-Free No Bake Snowball Cookies
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Sticky Christmas Cinnamon-Date Rolls
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Date and Pecan Fruitcake
Gluten-Free No Bake Snowball Date Cookies
Top of the list is a recipe guaranteed to be delicious. A date-based take on gluten-free snowball cookies that takes full advantage of the unique characteristics of their quality ingredients. Perfect for snowy winter lovers!
Ingredients:
20 pitted Medjool Dates4 tbsp Coconut Oil
4 tbsp preferred milk choice
1.5 cups of Ground Almonds
⅔ cup Cocoa Powder
½ tsp Rum Extract
Pinch of Salt
Powdered Sugar or Coconut
This recipe comes from the wonderful Ksenia Prints, and is accessible through her blog, be sure to read through for a story as sweet as this recipe!
Sticky Christmas Cinnamon-Date Rolls
A callback to a classic, this take on cinnamon rolls includes dates as the cherry on top of an already delicious treat! Easy to prepare and easy to bake, we’ve got you covered on satisfying your sweet tooth this Christmas!
Ingredients:
¾ cup Buttermilk
10 tbsp Vegetable Oil
1 Egg (Large)
½ Cup Brown Sugar
3 cups All-purpose Flour
1 tsp Kosher Salt
¼ tsp Baking Soda
1 cup Chopped Medjool Dates
2 tsp Ground Cinnamon
¼ oz Active Dry Yeast
From Bon Appetit's renown Chef Sohla El-Waylly this is a great recipe to prep and bake for those cozy Christmas mornings or nights when you need to make the moment just a little sweeter!
Date and Pecan Fruitcake
Beloved for generations, the Fruitcake has been a cornerstone of many Christmas traditions which simply wouldn’t be complete without this wonderfully nutritious dessert. The beauty of this classic dish is that its greatest limitation is also its strength, in other words, the quality of its topping ingredients. This recipe calls for nature’s candy; dates and their unique flavor profile add delectable dimensions to this trademark treat.
Ingredients:
2 lbs Chopped Pitted Dates
1 lbs Pecan Halves
1 lbs Candied Cherries
1 cup All-purpose Flour
1 cup Sugar
½ tsp Baking Powder
½ tsp Salt
4 Eggs
2 tsp Vanilla Extract
Finally, this date take on a Christmas staple is brought to us by Taste of Home, sweet and simple, this is a great way to incorporate dates into your Christmas traditions!
