Date Roll Candy Recipe

Here's the old fashioned date roll candy recipe you must try! Some also call it date loaf candy, and it's also known as date nut candy, but it's amazingly yummy no matter what you call it.

Just read the RAVE reviews below! Made from dates and all-natural ingredients, you simply form it into a roll and slice for serving. Easy peasy!

Old Fashioned Date Roll Candy Recipe

Submitted by a Reader

Date Loaf Candy Roll

Here is an old family recipe for a delicious candy made from dates and nuts. It was always called Date Loaf Candy at our house.

2 cups Sugar
1 cup milk

Cook to soft ball stage. Add 1 cup chopped dates. Stir constantly until dates cook to pieces. Remove from heat.

Add:

1 tablespoon butter
1 cup nuts
1 teaspoon vanilla

Beat until creamy. Pour on a damp cloth; shape into roll. Cool and cut in slices.

Old Fashioned Date Roll Candy Recipe

Submitted by Marlene Hillbom

Date Nut Candy Roll

I found this recipe for a Date Nut Candy Roll in an old 1957 Workbasket Magazine:

3 cup sugar
1 cup sweet milk
1/2 teaspoon cream of tartar
2 tablespoon butter
1 small package dates, cut up
1/2 cup chopped pecans
20 maraschino cherries (if desired); I use 10 red 10 green

Boil sugar, milk, and cream of tartar until it forms a soft ball in water, stirring occasionally. Add butter, dates and cherries and beat until the dates are well mixed then add nuts. Continue beating until too thick to stir.

Turn out on damp cloth in long roll. Roll up and let stand until hard. Slice about 1/4 inch thick. Very gooooood!!!

Old Fashioned Date Roll Candy Recipe

Submitted by a Reader

Date Nut Roll Candy

Ingredients:

1 cup milk
2 cups granulated sugar
1 tablespoon butter or margarine
1-1/2 cups chopped, pitted dates
1 cup chopped pecans
1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Making the Date Nut Roll:

Cook milk, sugar and butter over medium heat until it forms a soft ball when dropped into a cup of cold water, about 234°F. Add dates, nuts and vanilla extract.

Beat with a wooden spoon until creamy. Put a clean cup towel on the counter or butter a sheet of wax paper.

When the candy is cool enough to handle, roll the mixture into the towel or wax paper in a log shape. Refrigerate overnight and slice when chilled. Makes 20 servings.

Mom's Favorite Date Roll Candy Recipes

Mom's Recipe Scrapbooks (1920s)

Fruity Date Candy

1. Wash and dry on towel 1/2 cup uncooked, pitted dates and 1/4 cup uncooked, dried apricots.
2. Put dates and apricots through medium knife of food chopper with 2/3 cup seedless raisins and 1/4 cup shelled nuts of choice.
3. Put ground fruit mixture into bowl and add 1/4 cup PET Evaporated Milk, 1/2 teaspoon grated orange rind, and 1/8 teaspoon salt.
4. Mix thoroughly until all milk is absorbed. Chill in refrigerator.
5. Shape into round or oblong patties. Decorate with shelled nuts or halves of candied cherries, or roll in chocolate decorettes (chocolate chips) or finely chopped nuts or shredded coconut. Patties may also be studded with puffed rice, or strips of blanched almonds.

Makes about 3 dozen fruity date candies. —Mary Lee Taylor

Note: Dried, pitted prunes can be substituted for the dates and dried or pressed figs for the apricots.

Old Time Date Roll Candy

This old fashioned date roll candy recipe is easy to make, and the delicious date candy is a little different from any other.

3 cups white sugar
1 cup evaporated milk
1 cup dates, pitted and chopped
1 cup chopped nuts

Butter a 12x15-inch sheet of aluminum foil and dust generously with confectioner's sugar, then set aside for later.

In a saucepan over medium-high heat, mix together the sugar and evaporated milk. Stir frequently and bring to softball stage of 235°F. Stir in dates and nuts; allow mixture to cool.

Form the candy into a roll about 1-1/2 inches in diameter and wrap in the prepared aluminum foil; refrigerate until firm. Slice thinly with a knife dipped in hot water to serve.