Maha Eye Cookies

Ingredients

• 1 cup fine semolina
• 1 cup flour
• 3 tbsp desiccated coconut
• 1 tsp dry yeast
• 1 1/2 tsp baking powder
• 1 cup butter, at room temperature
• 1/2 cup milk
• 1/2 cup oil
• 2 tbsp sugar
• Syrup or sugar syrup (qatra), a little
• Desiccated coconut for topping
• Mahal Eye Cookies recipe from a friend and cook on Shou Tabkhin Alyawm:
• Fatima Abdullah
• Click Fatima’s name to visit her profile on our site and see all her delicious recipes.
• For more of Fatima’s sweets, see this link: How to Make Date Cookies

Method

1. Mix all the dry ingredients and other ingredients together, except for the syrup. Knead to form the Maha Eye Cookies dough.
2. Let the dough rest for about half an hour.
3. After resting, shape the dough as you like — preferably in the traditional “Maha eye” shape. See the picture for reference.
4. Place the shaped cookies on parchment paper on a baking tray.
5. Bake on the middle rack at moderate temperature until lightly golden.
6. Brush the hot cookies with syrup (qatra) using a pastry brush and sprinkle desiccated coconut on top.
7. Serve the Maha Eye Cookies after they cool.