87 dates nut recipes

Fruit and nut snack mix with salted Spanish peanuts, seedless raisins, and chopped dates. Three ingredients, zero cooking, and packed with energy for hiking or snacking.

Pure fruit cookies sweetened only with mashed bananas and dried fruit. No added sugar, made with oats, nuts, and chopped apricots, raisins, or dates.

Christmas compote jam blends dried figs, dates, apricots, three nuts, and candied orange in a quince-juice base spiced with cinnamon, clove, cardamom, and star anise. A three-day European holiday preserve worth every step.

Fruit and nut mini muffins sweetened naturally with boiled dates, raisins, and cranberries. No added sugar, made with egg substitute for a lighter, diabetic-friendly breakfast treat.

No-bake fruit and nut balls made with cherries, dates, walnuts, almonds, and coconut, bound with a single egg and rolled in sugar. Five-ingredient old-fashioned candy with a chewy, dense bite.

This relish is based on a prize-winning English recipe of more than a generation ago. It is less sweet than traditional chutneys; most of its sweetness comes not from sugar, but from apples, dates, and parsnips. I generally use Winesap apples but any well-flavored, crisp eating apple will do.

Chocolate fruitcake with cocoa, candied cherries, pecans, golden raisins, and mixed dried fruit, topped with a semisweet chocolate-almond glaze and toasted almonds.