A cup of tea and some buttered date bread
This date bread recipe is quick and easy to make. And what can be better than whipping up some easy date bread and enjoying it alongside a nice cup of tea? Slather on some delicious creamy butter on your slice of date bread and sit back.
I love dates, they are chewy sweet bombs of flavour. But eating them straight from the packet is not always the best idea, you tend to run out of dates rather quickly then. But with this date bread recipe, I need never run out of dates again. This date bread is nicely filling while still feeling light, thereby preventing me from eating all the dates at once.
Lavishly buttered date bread
I find that the best way to enjoy some date bread is with a generous helping of grass-fed butter on top. Dates are chewy and almost caramelly sweet, together with the moist cake surrounding them, are perfectly paired with creamy rich butter. Wich is exactly why I love this date bread recipe.
You can eat your date bread cold or warm. Cold it is definitely very tasty, but I find that the extra oomph it gets when it’s warm is unbeatable. Therefore I tend to heat mine up in the toaster if I’m not eating it straight from the oven.
Do you want some tea with that?
Traditionally people tend to eat their date bread or any kind of “tea cake” for that matter, with a cup of tea. That is also why they’re called tea cakes, makes sense right? Now when I say tea, I mean the British kind, the black tea with milk and sugar.
Although there is no tea police, so you can drink whatever kind of tea with it that you want. Or drink some coffee with it and be a rebel.
If you want some more tasty morsels to enjoy with your tea why not try out my easy biscuit recipe or some delicious honey cake.
Did I mention yet how much I love date bread, cause I love it, a lot.
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Date bread
Ingredients
Wet ingredients
- 225 gr dates chopped
- 100 ml hot water
- 75 ml hot milk
- 1 egg beaten
Dry ingredients
- 200 gr plain flour
- 75 gr soft brown sugar
- 1,5 tsp baking powder
Instructions
- Soak the dates overnight
- Chop the dates and heat up the milk and water. Then pour the hot liquids over the chopped dates and let steep, ideally overnight but minimally for 30 minutes.
- Preheat the oven to 180°C
- Mix the beaten egg in with the dates and give a good mix.
- In a separate bowl add the dry ingredients and give a quick mix, then add in the date mixture and mix thoroughly.
- Grease your loaf tin and pour in your date batter, then place your loaf tin into the oven and bake for 50 to 60 minutes or until a skewer comes out clean.
- Serve a slice with some butter spread on top, either fresh from the oven or quickly warm it up in the toaster.
