DATE DELIGHT COOKIES

INGREDIENTS

seed-less dates  250 gm finely chopped/ minced

sugar  1/3  cup

water  ½  cup

cinnamon pdr.  1/8 tsp

For dough

castor sugar   1/2 cups

butter  1/4 cup

custard pdr.  1/3 cup

maida/ all purpose flour  1 cups

baking pdr.  1/3  tsp

milk  1 tbsp

vanilla essence 1 tsp

salt a pinch

METHOD

Cream the butter and sugar. Sieve the dry ingredients together and mix with creamed butter. Add milk little by little to make soft dough. Chill the dough in the fridge for 30 minutes. Divide the dough into small equal portions and roll on a floured board like small biscuits size, all should be of the same size. Bake at 180 deg. C for about 10-15 minutes, till light brown. Cool on a grease-proof paper.

Cook together dates, sugar, cinnamon and water; it should become a thick spread. Divide this mixture into ½ the no. of biscuits baked. Spread the mixture evenly on each biscuit cover with another biscuit. Wrap all biscuits with an aluminum foil, keep in an air-tight container for a day. The date mixture will seep into the biscuit, giving it a fruity flavour.

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