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My review
Date Balls
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Melaniemg2000
"A holiday tradition. My mother made these date balls every year at Christmas time. They may be stored in a plastic or glass container. If the weather is warm, keep them in the refrigerator. Make sure balls are cooled thoroughly before storing."
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Ingredients
25 m servings 146Original recipe yields 24 servings (2 dozen cookies)
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Directions
{{model.addEditText}} Print- Cook and stir dates, sugar, and margarine in a large saucepan over low heat until sugar dissolves; remove from heat. Fold crispy rice cereal, pecans, and vanilla extract into the date mixture until evenly mixed.
- Grease your hands with margarine. Roll date mixture into 1-inch balls.
- Spread confectioners' sugar into a shallow dish; roll date balls in confectioners' sugar to coat.
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Most helpful positive review
4/24/2018
The problem other people are having with the recipe is because of the type of dates used. If you use a chopped date made for snacking, it has a coating on it to keep it from sticking together. T...
Most helpful critical review
12/22/2012
After struggling to form balls from the resulting mixture, I found other recipes that scaled the ingredients differently. Reduce the crispy rice cereal to only one cup, and you should have very ...
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12/22/2012
After struggling to form balls from the resulting mixture, I found other recipes that scaled the ingredients differently. Reduce the crispy rice cereal to only one cup, and you should have very ...
4/24/2018
The problem other people are having with the recipe is because of the type of dates used. If you use a chopped date made for snacking, it has a coating on it to keep it from sticking together. T...
10/3/2016
I followed the advice of other commenters and reduced the rice crispies to 1 cup. I also changed out the margarine for butter. Finally, I bought chipped pecans because the chopped ones at my s...
12/17/2017
3 stars for frustration level. Read the reviews and scaled sugar back to 3/4 cup, crispies to one cup, and I still had the crumbliness going on when trying to form the balls. Pressed it into ...
12/17/2015
Unable to roll into balls. Not sure what happened. I'm going to melt marshmallows and pour over dry mixture to see if they can form into balls.
1/19/2015
after misplacing my usual Date Ball recipe, I gave this one a try. very tasty, but like others the mixture is too dry. I aborted trying to roll it into balls after the second one and pressed it ...
12/16/2012
My husband said they tasted exactly like the cookies his grandmother made when he was a little boy. :)
1/31/2019
I made these the 1st time with the "candied like " dates. That was a disaster then I read in your reviews that you used the soft ones so made them a 2nd time and they were wonderful!! My mother ...
12/21/2018
I didn’t have a problem forming these into balls. I used the recipe exactly as written. I used whole pitted dates that I chopped myself which I think is probably key. The taste was ok, however, ...