Klaicha Iraqi Date Cookies
Recipe: #16288
December 09, 2014
Categories: Desserts, Cookies, Dropped, Dates, Middle Eastern, Christmas, Oven Bake, No Eggs, Vegetarian, Kosher Dairy, more
"I would start with 1/2 tsp orange blossom water until you see if its to strong for you and check sooner on baking time"
Ingredients
Nutritional
- Serving Size: 1 (103.1 g)
- Calories 421.1
- Total Fat - 21.1 g
- Saturated Fat - 13.2 g
- Cholesterol - 54.9 mg
- Sodium - 183.7 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 55.6 g
- Dietary Fiber - 2.5 g
- Sugars - 25.2 g
- Protein - 4.5 g
- Calcium - 26.6 mg
- Iron - 0.7 mg
- Vitamin C - 0 mg
- Thiamin - 0.1 mg
Step by Step Method
Step 1
Sift flour and sugar; cut in butter.
Step 2
Mix orange flower water and water together.
Step 3
Pour in butter mixture; knead until smooth. Let dough rest 35 minutes.
Step 4
Chop dates small. Simmer in pan with butter until dates are soft, REALLY low, stir.
Step 5
Pinch off dough size of walnut. Roll out flat; add teaspoon of date mixture; roll up around; score with fork pretty pattern.
Step 6
Bake at 325 degrees Fahrenheit for 30 minutes.
Tips
No special items needed.