138 date cake recipes

Praline pumpkin-date bread layered with chopped dates, warm spices, and a brown sugar pecan streusel crackled across the top. Two loaves of bakery-style fall quick bread for sharing or freezing.

No frost chocolate chip cake bakes its own topping: a moist date-sweetened cocoa cake crowned with a crackly sugar and chocolate-chip crust. Skip the icing entirely.

Chewy oatmeal cookies packed with dates, apples, raisins, and pecans, naturally sweetened by simmered fruit. These keep for days in the fridge and make grab-and-go snacks.

Old-fashioned date bars with a buttery oat crumb crust, orange-scented date filling with chopped nuts, and a crumbly oat topping baked until golden.

Sweet-savory quick bread with chopped dates, shredded cheddar, and walnuts baked into a moist loaf. Slice it thin for tea time or toast it with butter. Even better the next day.

Diabetic-friendly cookies sweetened with raisins, dates, and apples instead of sugar. Drop cookies built around boiled fruit base with sugar substitute. Makes 3 dozen lower-glycemic cookies.

Frosted date ring cake: spiced buttermilk-oat cake studded with dates and nuts, baked in a mold and finished with orange buttercream and candied cherries. Holiday cake with vintage charm.

Old-fashioned hermit cookies spiced with cinnamon and nutmeg, stuffed with raisins, dates, and walnuts. Soft and chewy from sour cream, topped with a whole walnut. A New England cookie jar staple.

Invisible oatmeal cookies: small, soft drop cookies packed with raisins, chopped dates, pecans, warm cinnamon, and nutmeg. Called "invisible" because they disappear from the cookie jar fast.

English rocks cookies packed with candied cherries, candied pineapple, dates, and pecans in a spiced brown sugar-buttermilk batter. A dense, fruity holiday cookie baked low and slow.

Moist date cake studded with chocolate chips and pecans, baked in one pan with a hint of cocoa. A nostalgic New England sheet cake that's simple to make and impossible to resist.

Brown sugar drop cookies with a warm cinnamon kick, stuffed with a thick date-pecan filling. Each golden bite hides a sweet, nutty surprise inside.

Soft buttermilk drop cookies with a sweet date-pecan filling hidden inside. Spiced with cinnamon and baked golden, this big-batch recipe yields up to 6 dozen.

Butterscotch icebox cookies sandwich a cooked date-and-nut filling between thin slices of brown-sugar dough. A vintage refrigerator cookie that bakes up crisp and chewy.

Tiny fruit turnovers filled with a stovetop apricot-date filling and chopped nuts, wrapped in a lemon-scented cookie dough. Bite-sized pastries for holiday trays.

Peachy bread with sliced peaches, candied fruit, dates, raisins, walnuts, and mincemeat in a spiced brown sugar batter. A dense, fruit-packed holiday quick bread loaded with flavor.