Chewy Date Bars

Preparation info
  • Makes

    24

    Bars
    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in
Sticky, Chewy, Messy, Gooey: Desserts for the Serious Sweet Tooth

By Jill O'Connor

Published 2007

  • About

Peters’ Bakery is an institution in San Jose, California, where I grew up. Tony Peters opened his family bakery in 1936, and for seventy years he and his family have kept their bakery cases filled with homemade goodies. Their date bars are heavenly, and a family favorite. They even survived a long trek to Bahrain in a care package for my husband. Nancy Peters, Tony’s daughter-in-law, just laughed when I asked for the secret recipe, so I developed my own ver

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