Sweet, delicious date cookies! Your family and friends will think you spent a bunch of time making these, but we'll know the truth :)
Ingredients
For the Cookie Dough:
4½ cups all purpose flour
1 tsp baking powder
1 cup boiling water
250 grams margarine
½ cup vegetable oil
1 tsp vanilla extract
For the filling:
350 grams pitted dates
1 tsp cinnamon
2-4 tbsp hot water (or as needed)
Instructions
Prepare the Dough:
Place all ingredients in a mixer bowl and mix together until it becomes soft dough.
Avoid over-mixing as over mixing will damage the dough’s texture.
Prepare the Filling:
In a food processor/ chopper, place the pitted dates with ½ tsp cinnamon.
Add 2 tbsp of hot water and chop. If you see that the mix is not paste like, add more hot water 1 tbsp at a time and process the mixture until it becomes paste. Be careful not to add too much water so it’s not too liquid.
Make the cookies:
Preheat oven to 350F (180C)
Line Cookie Sheet with parchment paper
Take a spoonful of dough (golf ball size) and flatten between your hands.
Take about 1 tsp filling and place in the middle of the flattened dough in your hand.
Close the dough back into a ball shape and place on the baking sheet. Cookies should be placed about 1.5 inches apart from each other. You can decorate the cookie by adding stripes made with a fork for example or you can leave it smooth.
When done shaping the cookies, place in preheated oven and bake for about 20 minutes until you see that the cookies are starting to get that golden color.
After the cookies are ready, take them out of the oven and sprinkle with powder sugar.
Recipe by Maya`s Kitchen at https://www.mayaskitchen.info/2012/05/07/maamul-moroccan-date-cookies/