41 date cake recipes

A densely spiced cake loaded with chopped dates, walnuts, and hot applesauce, finished with a brown sugar base that bakes into moist perfection.

Choco date cake folds simmered medjool-style dates, oats, and semisweet chocolate chips into a buttery sheet cake. Caramelized date sweetness with melty pockets of chocolate, baked in a 13x9 and topped with whipped cream.

Old-fashioned date and pecan cake baked low and slow in a tube pan. More fruit and nuts than batter, with a dense, rich texture similar to fruitcake.

A moist chocolate date cake baked in an 8-inch square pan with chocolate chips in the batter and a crunchy chip-nut-sugar topping. Dates softened in boiling water keep it impossibly tender. The kind of no-fuss cake you carry straight to the picnic in the pan.

Mocha layer cake built with cake flour, cocoa, and strong brewed coffee, sandwiched with sweetened whipped cream folded with dates and nuts. A vintage two-layer dessert dusted with powdered sugar.

Russian honey bread loaded with dried apricots, dates, raisins, and walnuts, warmed with cinnamon and clove. A bread machine quick bread with the rich, spiced sweetness of an old-country tea cake.

Low-fat four-spice bundt cake with cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice, cloves, plump golden raisins, and buttermilk. An egg-white-lightened tube cake finished with orange syrup and fresh orange slices.

Pumpkin bread loaded with chopped dates, warming pumpkin pie spice, and a tender oil-based crumb. A two-loaf recipe perfect for fall baking, gift-giving, and freezer stash.

Penny's apple-date scones with chewy oats, sweet sticky dates, fresh apple, and warm cinnamon. A cut-but-don't-separate baking method gives soft middles and crackly sugar tops.

Banana orange yogurt muffins are a healthy oat-based breakfast bake with mashed banana, fresh orange zest, plain yogurt, and chopped dates. Lower-fat with egg whites, ready in under an hour.

Sugar free peach oat bran muffins packed with chopped peaches, toasted pecans, and dates. Made with brown rice flour and oat bran for a hearty, gluten-free breakfast muffin sweetened only with fruit.

"This cake is a rich, dark, moist fruit cake, very flavorful at Christmas. Try icing with almond paste for a more festive touch. This recipe is started in October or November so as to let it mellow before the holidays. I remember very well my mother storing her fruit cake in an old butter churn that belonged to my grandmother and great grandmother. I wish that I had that old crock."

Date sticks: chewy bar cookies packed with chopped dates and nuts in a tender cake-like base, cut into strips and dusted with powdered sugar. Pantry-staple treat.

If you love dates you will enjoy this unique and tasty treat that will have you reaching for more!

Food for the Gods: a Filipino-style date and walnut pudding baked in a water bath with whipped egg whites for a light, souffled texture. Served cold with whipped cream.

Fruity buckwheat muffins fold Granny Smith apples and dates into a half-buckwheat-flour batter for nutty, hearty whole-grain muffins with natural sweetness in 35 minutes.