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..................................Fresh Baked - Date Bars

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Welcome to SUNCATCHER DATECAKES By Oasis Grove Marketing, LLC. We are located in Malta Bend, Missouri. Our kitchen is the center for manufacturing gourmet “Natural Date Bars”. Naturally delicious, our date bars are slow-baked to perfection and made from the finest, all-natural ingredients available. We use fresh dates from California, vine-ripened raisins from California, 100 percent whole wheat flour, 100 percent whole grain rolled oats, 100 percent raw dark brown sugar, sweet butter and fresh squeezed orange juice.

Inspiration
Inspiration for our products started years ago while traveling and working overseas. Date cakes similar to (Maamoul) were served with coffee on Saudia Airlines. These small round cakes in a pastry shell were filled with fresh “date fruit” grown on desert oases throughout the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Date cakes were made by Marriott Catering Corporation under contract for Saudia Airlines to serve to their guests as a sign of traditional hospitality. The pastry was naturally delicious and difficult to forget. Our idea was create a comparable product, manufacture it from fresh California dates, and present to the American Community for your enjoyment.

Our Mission
Our Mission is to provide customers with a unique range of fresh gourmet “natural date fruit” products; present our products in elegant design packaging; achieve success through product innovation; manufacture superior products and to deliver warm, friendly, dependable customer care.

Our Date Bars
Our Date Bars contain no trans fats, no preservatives, are naturally deliciously and nutritious, packed with energy captured from the sun.

Our Guarantee
Our Guarantee: if you are not completely satisfied then neither are we. You must be delighted or we’ll promptly send a replacement, refund your money or credit your account.

Have a great date day!

The SUNCATCHER DATECAKES Crew

I just ran across this site and thought someone could help me. We are originally from Detroit MI and grew up with Awrey Bakery goods. We now live in CA and have a small store, a nut shop, in Temecula CA. We carry some MI products, among them , the Awrey Date Nut bar. It sells really well and we were actually buying it from their outlet store in Livonia MI. Since it's a product that is fairly popular, awrey, in its infinite wisdom, now refuses to ship out. It can only be bought through the big distributors and they won't bother with a small mom and pop store. If anybody knows where I can purchase these bars, please let me know.

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I've been curious about these for a very long time...I just had my first one today, of the whole-wheat variety, and it was pretty tasty. But I totally thought it was stuffed with figs, rather than dates.

Oh my god, the mystery is solved!! I've been wondering what those were ever since I became addicted to them while living in NYC for a couple years for grad school. I even posted a question on Yahoo Answers before getting the momentum to look for pictures of my vague guess on flickr (which brought me here, to this blog). Aren't you glad you finally tried one? They're the tastiest. Even better than black and white cookies.

My bad. I should have known that number was wrong. We are correcting it as we speak. My apologies.

I have to say, I adore my Wusthof Clasics, and have never once regretted the investment. Still, I think the right knife is whichever one feels the best to you personally, regardless of brand or cost. The Clasics just happen to fit me better than anything else I've tried to date :}

Gerber, good ol' US made forged steel knives. Never on sale. Usually only in cutlery stores.

My every-day beater knives are an old set of Chicago Cutlery with walnut handles that I inherited from my grandmother. They lack a proper bolster and they're a lot lighter weight than my set of Insignias, but if you're cooking all day your wrist knows the difference when you're rolling into hour 9 or 10. Plus, they've got sentimental value.

My baby is a gift my mom brought me from Toledo, Spain, which is a hand crafted, ten-inch chef's knife. No one even touches that one, and I rarely use it for any thing but stuff that requires precision of extra sharp cutting (sushi, etc.).

I'm set to buy some Shuns soon because as ride&cook said, they're very comfortable in my hand, and that's so important to me. Plus, they're so gorgeous.

An entertaining snack mystery. I wonder about things like this all the time -- thanks. So how do you find out the ingredients?

i agree. i have these for quick pick me ups to stave of hunger pangs before a dinner or just as a quick snack. they're pretty good. just like a healthier version of fignewtons.
i never wondered where they came from, i just always thought the deli owners bought them in bulk and packaged it themselves w/ saran wrap. knowing this, id still eat it :)

Well, don't bother asking the folks at the Grand Central market where they get their date bars - one of my first dead ends!