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Ideas for dates please

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  • Prudent
    Prudent Posts: 11,686 Forumite
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    Here is the link:

    http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?p=455912#post455912

    They are cooling just now, so haven't tasted them yet :)
  • jcr16
    jcr16 Posts: 4,185 Forumite
    onr of the only thing's i can think of is eating thm as they are. yummy. i've not had them in year's. but they always tasted gorgoeus.

    sorry i'm no help what so ever, lol.
  • This spicy date and apple cake is lovely.

    http://www.asda-recipes.co.uk/recipe/6.html

    I've just realised I made it with white flour (I was trying to cook a meal and empty the dishwasher all at the same time!!).

    Very nice, not powerfully sweet like some cakes.
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  • jess444_2
    jess444_2 Posts: 1,225 Forumite
    Sticky toffee pudding - YUM!!!
    I use Delia's recipe - https://www.deliaonline.com
  • celyn90
    celyn90 Posts: 3,249 Forumite
    my mum used to make date and walnut loaf - we always had it at sunday tea, :)
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  • How about Split ,stuff with marzipan dip in chocolate and give as pressies.
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  • chop up, simmer in fruit juice with your other chopped dried fruit + cinnamon/nutmeg/cloves, blitz and you have a sauce for cake, icecream, yogurt.......
  • terrimolo
    terrimolo Posts: 42 Forumite
    I bought about 200g worth of dates in the reduced section of Tescos the other day, because i'd never tried them, and they're veyr rich in fibre. I dont actually like them though!
    I was thinking about baking them in a cake I saw on cook yourself thin, but realised that to make the cake (i'm not a big baker), i would need to buy brazil nuts, pecans, parsnips, buckwheat flour, vanilla, treacle, bicarb of soda and baking powder. i dont bake often so it seems like a waste to buy a load of things that i might not use again just to use up 70p worth of dates but on the other hand, i hate waste.

    any other suggestions? i really dont like fruit in currys bt the way, if that helps. I hope your more imaginative than me!Thank you!
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  • bubbs
    bubbs Posts: 68,210 Forumite
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    Hi,
    I would make a date and walnut cake, so providing you have flour , marg sugar and eggs all you have to buy is the walnuts :)
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  • morwenna
    morwenna Posts: 844 Forumite
    Sticky toffee pudding? Saint Delia has a good recipe and probably no calories involved at all.. ;)
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