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Date Cookies with Only 3 Ingredients!

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Date Cookies with Only 3 Ingredients!

Date or ajwa cookies with a dough made from just three ingredients... what do you think? It sounds like a recipe not to be missed :) Here are the details.

Total time50 min
Prep10 min
Cook40 min
Yield8 servings
DifficultyEasy
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DessertsLevantVegetarianNut freeEgg freeEasyBalanced time

Recipe story

Date or ajwa cookies with a dough made from just three ingredients... what do you think? It sounds like a recipe not to be missed :) Here are the details.

Ingredients

  • 1 kilogram flour
  • 500 g butter, at room temperature
  • 1 can sweetened condensed milk, 379 g
  • Mashed dates mixed into a paste with butter, a pinch of cinnamon, ground cardamom, and nutmeg
  • Click the link to make Sweet Semolina Kibbeh

Method

  1. Rub the butter (at room temperature) into the flour well until all the butter disappears and the flour looks like sand.
  2. Add the sweetened condensed milk and knead well until the dough comes together and becomes similar to ghraiba dough.
  3. Shape the dough into balls, fill the balls with the date filling, then place them in the molds used for shaping.
  4. Arrange the cookies on trays and bake them in a medium oven until the sides are golden, keeping an eye on them.
  5. Brown them slightly from the top.
  6. Let them cool to room temperature before serving.

Notes and serving ideas

  • Nutella Cheesecake
  • Sweet Semolina Kibbeh
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