Quick and Easy Healthy Date Loaf Recipe (2024)

This easy to make Healthy Date Loaf contains no refined sugars and is naturally sweetened with lots of juicy ripe dates and ground cinnamon spice. It’s a healthy date cake recipe with only 8 ingredients that is quick and easy, lovely and moist, andcan be eaten straight away or cut into slices and frozen in ziplock bags. This date bread is ideal for clean eating snacks throughout the week to pack into your lunchbox for morning break, or as an afternoon treat. Just like this Chocolate Date Cake with luscious Ganache!

Tips for Making A Healthy Date Loaf

• Use a silicone loaf tin
• Grease the tin with butter and line with baking/parchment paper
• Take the dates out of the fridge half an hour before you need them to let them come to room temperature
• Use boiling water to soften dates for 10 minutes, then chop finely
• Don’t overwork the batter, mix gently to combine and then spoon into the tin
• Taste the batterbefore pouring it into the tin. If it needs more sweetness, add more dates, following the same process of letting them soften and chopping them, or you could add some natural honey. Note: Adding more dates or honey will obviously increase the sugar content overall
• Set the timer on your oven if you have one
• 5 minutes before it’s due to come out of the oven, check to see if it is cooked by testing it with a skewer. If skewer comes out clean, remove from oven. Also it should be a light golden colour on top
• Don’t overbake your healthy date loafor it will end up being tough and dry

Dates are a great way to add natural sweetness to baked goods if you’re wanting to avoid or even just eat less refined sugars. Also, if you don’t like the taste of stevia or other natural sweeteners, this is a baked good you need to make as the only sweetener is the dates themselves. Nothing else, except a little ground cinnamon, if you count that as sweetener, but I count is more as a flavour enhancer! This is definitely a healthy date cake recipe that is moist, low fat and free from refined white sugars.

Are Dates Healthy?

Have you ever heard of Low GI Foods? Maybe you naturally lean towards these types of foods and don’t even realise it. In conjunction with minimising my sugar intake, I have been conscious of eating Low GI as much as possible for a while now and dates are one of those Low GI foods that are very versatile and that I use a lot in my cooking and recipes.

Dates have a GI of 36 and , foods with a GI of less than 55 are considered to have a low glycemic index, which means they will have smaller impact on blood sugar levels. This is great news as Low GI foods helps us to stay fuller for longer and avoid sugar highs and lows that end up making us feel pretty ordinary.

TIP: This sugar free date cake freezes well. Just cut into slices and pop into ziplock bags and store in the freezer for upto one month.

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• Easy Lemon Loaf
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8 Simple Ingredients for a Healthy Date Cake Recipe

• 1½ cups Wholemeal Plain flour (or Spelt Flour or Oat Flour)
• 1 teaspoon Cream of tartar ( a leavening agent similar to baking soda and available in the baking aisle at supermarkets)
• ½ teaspoon Bicarb
• 1 teaspoon Ground Cinnamon (or your other favourite spices)
• 1 cup Chopped Medjool dates (at room temperature)
• ½ cup Milk
• 2 medium Eggs
• ¼ cup Vegetable Oil + 2 tablespoons

This is a one bowl cake mix which I also love, so not a lot of clean up. 30 minutes in the oven and you've got sugar free date cake for the rest of the week!

The Sugar In Dates….

Dates are free from added sugar and refined sugar, but they do contain naturally occurring sugars.

Since dates are Low GI, and don’t cause a spike in blood sugar, combined with the fibre and vitamin B of dates, it makes them a healthy choice to eat either as they are or to use them as a sweetener substitute in baking and this healthy date bread recipe really is one of the easiest things to bake with dates because it's only 8 ingredients and

One thing to point out though is that if you’re used to eating sugar and regularly eat sugary baked goods, this Healthy Date Cake recipewon’t be as sweet as you might like. This is because the white refined sugar is considerably more sweeter than dates.

TIP: I highly recommend you use Medjool Dates for this recipe over regular dates as they are larger, sweeter and softer.

If you’re a fan of dates, you might like these other recipes where I’ve used dates as a sweetener:

Sugar Free Ginger Biscuits, Sugar Free Gingerbread Loaf, Sugar Free Caramel Slice Bites, and Sugar Free Bliss Balls.

6 Ways to Pimp Your Healthy Date Bread Recipe

• Add some sugar free chocolate chips
• Add ½ a teaspoon each of ground nutmeg and ground cloves
• Add ¼ cup dried cranberries, diced
• Add ¼ cup small dried organic blueberries
• Add a tablespoon of Chia seeds for extra protein
• Add ½ a cup of chopped walnuts for texture and crunch

A healthy date bread recipe is one of my favourite things to have with my morning coffee. This clean eating no added sugar version is still moist, contains fibre from the wholemeal flour, protein from the eggs and makes 8 thick slices.

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