Maamouls are crispy and tasty semolina cookies filled with sweet date paste. These cookies make a perfect tea time snack or even a wonderful a healthy dessert cookies.
The ma’amouls cookies are kind of shortbread cookies filled with dates and or sometimes nuts like almonds, pistachios etc. Normally ma’amouls can be made in round or oval shapes but the Lebanese people have some special wooden moulds to make impressions on the cookies. These moulds are almost like the Sondesh mould in Bengali households.
Nevertheless, whatever the shape would be these cookies are so amazing and totally melt in mouth kind that they were all gone in the same day.
Blogging Marathon#79 Week1/Day3
Theme-Lebanese Recipes
Dish-Maamouls
Source–196 Flavors
Maamouls
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cup fine semolina
- 1/2 cup all purpose flour
- 1/2 cup butter, melted
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 1/2 cup milk
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
For filling
- 12 to 15 no. mejdjool dates, pitted
Instructions
- In a food processor make a paste of dates. Set aside.
- In a mixing bowl add semolina, all purpose flour, sugar and baking powder.
- Add in butter and milk and mix together to make a smooth dough.
- Cover the dough and let it chill in the refrigerator for 20 minutes.
- Remove from fridge and make round balls flatten on your palm and fill a teaspoon of date filling in the centre.
- Roll again to make a ball and arrange them on the baking tray.
- If you have maamouls press and use it to make designs.
- Bake in preheated oven for about 12 to 15 minutes. Remove from oven and cool on wire rack.
- Sprinkle icing sugar, serve and enjoy.
Notes
Enjoy!!
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Wow.. very interesting recipe.. never heard such kind of cookies. Thanks 4 sharing.
These sounds delicious. Bookmarked to try soon.
Wow.. Just love the idea of stuffing dates.. I am bookmarking this recipe.. Totally loved it!!
These are lovely cookies , dates would make it healthy too . I remember looking for the maa mouls mould in Dubai , but couldn’t find one .
They look so good. an apt recipe choice for the theme
I have made it earlier and loved it totally. Your cookies are so good. Absolutely inviting..
Looks very pretty sapana ! beautiful clicks!