Date Recipes From a Working Date Farm

Every recipe here was made in a farm kitchen with fruit from our own palms. No food-blog life stories — just what works, written by the family that grows the dates. We add new ones as they come off the stove, so this page keeps growing.

The pantry staples

Date Paste: The 5-Minute Farm Methodone ingredient, the workhorse of natural baking.Get the recipe →

We grow these. Golden Zahidi Dates — Nutty, Less Sweet, Never Sticky | California Farm-Direct from our family farm in Sky Valley, California — from $15/lb, shipping included. See them →

Date Paste & Date Syrup (Dibs)the fuller method, including the pourable syrup.Get the recipe →Date Syrup: The Master Recipesimmer, strain, reduce. The silan for your yogurt, from one box of fruit.Get the recipe →What Is Date Sugar?ground whole dates: where it shines, where it fails, and how to grind your own.Get the recipe →Baking With Dates Instead of Sugarthe conversion guide: how much, in what, and what changes.Get the recipe →

The famous one

The Coachella Valley Date Shakethe desert’s signature drink: dates, milk, vanilla ice cream, nothing else.Get the recipe →

Party plates

Stuffed Dates, Three Waysalmond, chèvre, and the nut-butter one that disappears first.Get the recipe →Bacon-Wrapped Medjool Dates (Devils on Horseback)the appetizer that converts date skeptics.Get the recipe →Dates for Charcuterie Boardswhich variety, how to cut, what to pair.Get the recipe →

Sweets without the sugar bag

Chocolate Date Barkthe viral one: smashed Medjool, nut butter, dark chocolate, flaky salt, freezer.Get the recipe →Maamoul (Date-Filled Cookies)the Eid and Easter classic, filling-first from fresh fruit.Get the recipe →Sticky Toffee Puddingthe holiday classic that’s really a date recipe; fresh Medjool makes it.Get the recipe →Date-Sweetened Pumpkin Pieno refined sugar, deeper flavor; the Thanksgiving sleeper hit.Get the recipe →Nature’s Candy: A Healthier Halloweenkid-tested date treats.Get the recipe →Medjool Date Oatmeal Cookieschewy, naturally sweetened, with molasses depth and pecans.Get the recipe →Moist Date Nut Breadthe boiling-water trick that makes a dense, tender loaf.Get the recipe →Zahidi Date Bars & Breadan oat date bar, plus how to bake with chopped Zahidi when you want visible pieces of date.Get the recipe →

Fuel

Date-Pistachio Energy Bites (No-Bake)suhoor, trailhead or desk drawer.Get the recipe →Date-Banana Smoothiethe gentle, fast one.Get the recipe →

Baking these for someone else? A box of this season’s crop travels well — we pack gift boxes with your note included, and the holiday order-by dates are here.

From the kitchen at Desert Sun Dates, Sky Valley, California — where recipe testing is the best part of the job.