Recipe Description
These Makmur Date Cookies contains a sweet surprise when bitten into. This recipe was first published in Flavours magazine.
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Recipe Ingredient
- Cookie dough:
- 500g flour
- 75g icing sugar
- 100g buttermelted
- Filling:
- 250g datespitted
- 10g crystallised gingerfinely chopped
- 2tbsp water
- a pinch of fine salt
- additional icing sugar for decoration
Instructions
- Sift flour and sugar into a bowl.
- Slowly mix in the butter till it becomes a crumbly dough.
- Set aside.
- Place all the ingredients into a food processor and blend to a paste.
- Tear a small amount of dough, form a ball and flatten it.
- Place a teaspoon of filling in the centre then gently enclose the filling in the dough.
- Make decorative patterns using tart pincers or a putu kacang mould.
- Bake in a 170°C pre-heated oven for about 15-20 minutes till lightly brown.
- Remove from tray then roll the cookies in the additional icing sugar.
- Leave to cool before keeping them in an airtight container.
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