This Coffee Date Walnut Bread is the most rich and flavorful bread you’ll ever taste! Loaded with coffee-soaked dates, walnuts, and a ton of spice, this moist and rich Coffee Date Walnut Bread is bathed in a coffee glaze!
I know this Coffee Date Walnut Bread sounds like something your great-grandmother would offer you, and I know that dates and walnuts aren’t exactly trendy, but hear me out.
Inspired by a family recipe for Icebox cake, a recipe found in my great-grandmother’s recipe box. So, it is a bit old-fashioned, but it’s got so much going for it.
Walnut Date Bread
I don’t know why I called this Coffee Date Walnut Bread a bread? I don’t want to go back and change everything in the post, including all the behind-the-scenes type stuff, so we’ll just leave this as a ‘bread’ but it’s maybe closer to a loaf cake. It’s not quite cake, but a little more dessert-like than just quick bread. Okay, movin’ on.
This is in large part from combining hot coffee and chopped dates, and letting them stew and hang out. That’s how this recipe starts out, by soaking dates in hot coffee. The coffee breaks down the dates, and they become soft and sticky. The coffee gives deeper, richer flavor to the dates.
Then there’s walnuts. They add crunch and nuttiness. And let’s not forget spices. There’s no shortage of spice, and a few different ones come together in this bread, giving it lots of warmth and dimension.
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Lastly, this Coffee Date Walnut Bread is bathed in a coffee glaze. Eep. The glaze is almost always the best part of a baked good, am I right?
There’s about 8, 000 things happening in this Coffee Date Walnut Bread (aka, loaf cake) and they all equal richness and stickiness. It’s one of the most moist and flavorful breads I’ve ever tasted, and it’s on my short list of new favorite fall recipes. For breakfast, with coffee.
The most rich and flavorful bread you'll ever taste! Loaded with coffee-soaked dates, walnuts, and a ton of spice, this moist and rich bread is bathed in a coffee glaze!Homemade Coffee Date Rye Bread is worth taking your time over. Enjoy it fresh and thickly sliced. A dab of butter is all it needs. The combination of sweet dates, bitter coffee and sour rye makes a great simple breakfast.
Homemade Coffee Date Rye Bread
One of my guilty pleasures at the weekend is homemade bread slathered in cold, slightly salty butter. If that bread is slightly on the sweet side, I say all the better. Weekends are my time to relax the healthy eating a little. This Coffee, Date Rye Bread fits the bill perfectly. It is just the right side of sweet, with a bitter hint of coffee and a smidgen of sharpness from the rye. This loaf can wake me up any Saturday morning it pleases.
I like to enjoy my Coffee Date Rye Bread as fresh as possible and just as it is… plus that lick essential of butter. The loaf is large so there’s often a little left over for the next day. I toast a few slices on day 2, so that I can marvel at how the heat of the toaster transforms those dates into soft, squidgy nuggets of sweet goodness.
Confession: I dabbled in bread making in my late teenage years. I was young (sigh) and had absolutely zero knowledge or experience of bread making. I don’t think I even had bread flour (
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Naïve). Obviously, I ended up with a lump of heavy, barely edible carbohydrate loosely labelled as ‘homemade bread’ if anybody was brave enough to ask me what it was.
For close on 2 decades I ignored homemade bread. I was happy. But then one Christmas, about 6 years ago, completely unaware of my teenage disasters, Chris presented me with a bread making machine. I was instantly and unexpectedly thrilled and immediately found it a home on my kitchen worktop.
This machine sat there proudly kneading and baking loaf after loaf of great bread for about 6 months. But then Chris confessed that he wasn’t completely happy with the way the machine
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Hmm… for another 6 months we let the machine do the mixing and kneading of the dough and taking it through the first rise. But then we’d set an alarm, whip that dough out of the machine, knock it back, shape it, prove it and bake it in the oven. Phew.
But then I got impatient with this machine. Not only was it taking up valuable space in my kitchen, it was taking me more time to programme the machine than was worth the effort… I would get brain ache trying to calculate the times in my head whilst simultaneously serving breakfast to my pre-schoolers, unloading the dishwasher, setting the washing machine going… you know the drill.
So we started making bread by hand. After all, that is the way I like to do things in my kitchen anyway.
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After a few months of inactivity the breadmaking machine took a one way ticket to the charity shop. But I remain thankful to Chris for buying it for me. It was a present from the heart and without it, I would not have got around to mastering homemade bread. I’m also secretly pleased he’s so
About his loaf as I do love making bread. And I doubt very much if this Coffee Date Rye Bread would have evolved if I’d carried on with the bread making machine. It’s so much easier to gauge the dough when you are actually in contact with it.
Homemade bread is a labour of love, but one that is worth the effort. My advice to anybody new to breadmaking is not to rush it:
Coffee Date Walnut Bread With Coffee Glaze
If you enjoy baking bread then take a look at my Cheesy Jalapeño Beer Bread, Cinnamon Cherry Tea Bread and my Lincolnshire plum loaf – they are all beautiful loaves. And for the ultimate sweet indulgence, take a look at my easy jam doughnuts – gone on, I dare you.
Homemade Coffee Date Rye Bread is worth taking your time over. Enjoy it fresh and thickly sliced with a dab of butter. The combination of sweet dates, bitter coffee and sour rye makes a great simple breakfast.
Calories: 2827 kcal | Carbohydrates: 535 g | Protein: 83 g | Fat: 45 g | Saturated Fat: 23 g | Cholesterol: 97 mg | Sodium: 3867 mg | Potassium: 2410 mg | Fiber: 40 g | Sugar: 144 g | Vitamin A: 1268 IU | Calcium: 504 mg | Iron: 9 mg
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