Coffee Maple Date Nut Bread with Glaze

Ingredients

Featured ingredient: Lighthouse Blend Coffee 10 oz. Bag Ground

Bread:

• 1 cup all purpose flour
• 1 cup whole wheat flour
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 3/4 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
• 1 cup boiling strong brewed Door County Coffee Lighthouse Blend (to brew strong coffee, use 1/2 the water you normally would use)
• 1 cup pitted dates, pitted, chopped small
• 1 tablespoon butter, softened
• 3/4 cup pure maple syrup
• 1 egg
• 1/2 cup pecans, chopped

Coffee Maple Glaze:

• 1 cup powdered sugar
• 1 teaspoon maple syrup
• 1-2 teaspoons strong brewed Door County Coffee Lighthouse Blend (to brew strong coffee, use 1/2 the water you normally would use)

Instructions

Bread:

1. 1. Preheat oven to 350*
   2. Grease and flour a 8 inch x 8 inch loaf pan.
   3. Combine both flours, baking powder, baking soda and salt in a large mixing bowl.
   4. Mix until blended.
   5. Make a well in center of flour - set aside.
   6. In a medium bowl, pour boiling Lighthouse Blend coffee over the dates and butter; stir until butter melts.
   7. Stir in maple syrup, egg and vanilla.
   8. Add mixture into flour well, stir just until moistened, batter will be lumpy.
   9. Fold in the pecans.
   10. Pour batter into the prepared loaf pan.
   11. Bake 50-60 minutes.
   12. Cool on wire rack for 10 minutes before turning out

Glaze:

1. 1. Mix glaze in a small bowl.
   2. Spoon over the cooled bread, let bread with glaze cool completely before wrapping tightly.

Bread slices better the next day.