Ma’amoul (Date filled cookies). Fresh baked, hand-made, individually decorated real American cookies. A party with a tray of cookies is always better Mix semolina flour, all-purpose flour, mahlab, and salt together in a large bowl. Work clarified butter into the dry ingredients with your fingertips until thoroughly incorporated.
As good as my other holiday cookies - Baklava, Persian Chickpea Cookies and Vanillekipferl (Crescent Cookies).
Aunt Hilda's ma'amoul was made in our family's Lebanese tradition: a buttery, melt-in-your mouth cookie, filled with date paste or sugared nuts, and pressed into an heirloom wooden mold for a precise, gorgeous design and domed shape.
Maamoul Cookies are melt in your mouth, date filled cookies that are low in sugar but robust in flavor.
You can cook Ma’amoul (Date filled cookies) using 13 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.
Ingredients of Ma’amoul (Date filled cookies)
- It's 1 cup (125 gm) of all purpose flour (cold).
- You need 1 cup (125 gm) of semolina (cold).
- It's 125 gm of ghee (softened).
- Prepare 1/3 cup of cold condensed milk.
- It's 2 tbsp of ice cold water.
- Prepare Pinch of salt.
- It's Pinch of cardamom and nutmeg powder.
- You need of Filling:.
- It's of Some walnuts (crushed).
- It's of Some almonds (crushed).
- You need 1 cup of dates paste.
- Prepare 1 tbsp of ghee/ oil.
- Prepare Pinch of cardamom and nutmeg powder.
They are an ancient Arab dessert that are often made to celebrate Eid, the end of Ramadan. Maamoul cookies are known as the Arabic cookies with dates. Ma'amoul is very famous in the Middle East during religious holidays for both Muslims and Christians. Along with other middle eastern cookies like Kahk, these cookies are made in huge quantities during festive days to celebrate and share with neighbors and guests.
Ma’amoul (Date filled cookies) instructions
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Add cold flour and semolina in big mixing bowl and mix well. Add ghee and mix well with finger tips till a rough dough forms. Or simply use a chopper. Cover and refrigerate for at least 20 mins..
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Now remove from fridge and add remaining ingredients and mix well until a soft dough forms. Cover and keep aside..
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Now mix dates paste along with other ingredients well. Make tiny balls of about 1 tsp.
Pre heat the oven to 200 degrees..
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Now make a big ball of the flour dough and dig a whole in it. Put the date ball into it and roll into a ball again. Do the same with the rest doughs..
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Make shape with the mould or use any method. Freeze for 5-7 mins. Keeping the doughs cold helps maintain their shape while baking. (punch the mould in flour first).
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(remove the extra dough on the sides)
Now put the tray of cookies in the oven for 16-17 mins on medium rack on lower flame. Then on top flame for 3-4 mins. Remove and cool them on cooling rack..
- Top with powdered sugar and serve and enjoy with tea, coffee or just munch it away..☺️.
Ma'amoul means "stuffed" in Arabic, and these cookies can be stuffed with a number of different fillings. Date filling is traditional for celebrating Eid, but walnuts (flavored either with orange blossom syrup or cinnamon) and pistachios (flavored with rose water and orange blossom water) are also common. Flatten your dough ball and place the date ball within. If you have a mold, place inside and then close the dough around the date paste ball. Ingredients: Dates, wheat flour, butter oil, sugar, glucose, salt.