Hey everyone, it’s Drew, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, date & oat bars. One of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

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To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook date & oat bars using 22 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Date & Oat Bars:

1. Make ready For the Sticky Date Filling
2. Get Medjool dates, pitted and chopped
3. Take water
4. Prepare Lemon Juice
5. Get Soft Dark Brown Sugar
6. Make ready grated orange zest
7. Get ground cinnamon
8. Prepare Mixed Spice
9. Get Bicarbonate of Soda
10. Make ready For the Oaty Layer
11. Make ready Plain Wholemeal Flour
12. Take Quick Cook Oats
13. Take Jumbo Oats
14. Make ready Soft Dark Brown Sugar
15. Take Unsalted Butter, cubed and chilled
16. Prepare Baking Powder
17. Take Bicarbonate of Soda
18. Get Ground Cinnamon
19. Take fine salt
20. Take To decorate (optional)
21. Make ready Drizzle Golden Syrup
22. Take Chopped Pecans

Instructions to make Date & Oat Bars:

1. Grease and line with baking parchment an 8x8 inch baking pan.
2. First, make the date filling. Place all the date filling ingredients except the Bicarb of Soda into a medium saucepan. Mix together well with a wooden spoon and bring to the boil for 1 minute. Continuing to stir, simmer for 5-8 minutes, or until the dates have fallen apart and the mixture comes together. Take off the heat and stir in the bicarb. Leave to cool
3. Next make the oaty layers: In a large mixing bowl, combine the oats, flour, sugar, bicarb, baking powder, cinnamon and salt. Add the cubes of butter and begin rubbing the butter into the flour mix using your fingertips until you have a breadcrumb texture. Pop the mixture in the fridge while you Preheat the oven to 200C Fan.
4. When the oven is up to temperature, press down 1/2 of the oaty mixture into the prepared baking pa, making sure it is distributed evenly. Spread the date mixture evenly over the crust, taking it all the way to the edges. Crumble the remaining oat mixture on top - again making sure it is evenly distributed - and light pat down making sure it covers the date mixture nicely.
5. Bake in the centre of the oven for 20-25 minutes, or until the crust is golden brown and lightly toasted. Allow to cool in the tin before placing onto a wire rack. Make sure it is completely cool before cutting into squares.

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