Ma'amoul (Date-Filled Cookies)

Ingredients

• •2 cups semolina
• •1 cup flour
• •150 g butter
• •Half a cup of milk
• •1 tsp dry yeast
• •1 tbsp rose water
• •300 g pitted date paste
• •1 tsp cinnamon
• •Icing sugar

Steps

1. 1Rub the semolina and flour with the melted butter and let it rest for 30 minutes.
2. 2Dissolve the yeast in warm milk, add it with the rose water and knead into a soft dough.
3. 3Mix the date paste with cinnamon and roll it into small balls.
4. 4Take walnut-sized pieces of dough, enclose a date ball in each and shape them in a mould.
5. 5Bake in a preheated oven at 180°C for 15-18 minutes until lightly coloured.
6. 6Dust with icing sugar once cooled.

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