Flour maamoul with dates and walnuts
Maamoul cookies made with a flour-and-butter dough and filled with dates, walnuts, and citrus aromas. Makes 28.
This date-filled version of maamoul pairs a soft dough with a cooked date and walnut filling. The sources document versions made with wheat flour and with semolina; this recipe follows the flour version throughout. If you do not have a mold, shape the cookies by hand.
Ingredient allergens
Allergen listDocumented presence
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Tree nuts
Walnuts
Ingredients without verified allergen data 10
Ingredients without verified allergen data: Butter, Sugar, Orange blossom water, Milk, Wheat flour, Pitted dates, Water, Orange juice, Ground cinnamon, Orange.
Alternatives by dietary restriction
Lactose-free milk
For lactose intolerance
It can replace liquid milk in cooking and baking to reduce lactose. It retains milk proteins, so it does not avoid the milk allergen. Choose a variety suited to the recipe and check the label. Also check other allergens and the risk of cross-contact.
Lactose-free milk retains milk proteins. This option does not address milk allergy.
Allergens to consider in this alternative:
- Milk and milk products
Check the label, other allergens and cross-contact. Replacing one ingredient does not remove allergens elsewhere in the recipe; adjustments depend on the culinary use.
Method
- 01
Make the dough
Beat the butter with the sugar and 5 drops of orange blossom water for 5 minutes. Mix in the milk, then gradually add the flour. Finish mixing and knead by hand once the dough becomes too firm to beat. It should be soft: if it sticks, add a little more flour; if it cracks, work in a little more milk.
Ready to continue when: The dough is soft, can be shaped into a ball, and neither sticks to your hands nor shows cracks.
15 min - 02
Rest the dough
Cover the dough and let it rest in the refrigerator for 30 minutes.
Ready to continue when: The dough has rested covered for 30 minutes and is still pliable.
30 min - 03
Cook the filling
Finely chop the dates and walnuts. Heat the water, orange juice, and remaining sugar in a saucepan. When it begins to boil, add the dates and walnuts and simmer gently for 5 minutes, stirring. Remove from the heat; stir in the remaining butter, 5 drops of orange blossom water, the cinnamon, and the orange zest. Leave to cool.
Ready to continue when: The filling is combined, the dates have softened, and the mixture has cooled before shaping.
10 min - 04
Fill and shape
Divide the dough into portions and roll them into balls. Flatten each ball and make a hollow for some of the cooled filling. Close the dough around the filling and seal the joins, keeping the layer even. Shape each cookie with a maamoul mold; if you do not have one, shape it by hand.
Ready to continue when: There are 28 sealed cookies, with the filling enclosed in an even layer of dough and the shape marked.
35 min - 05
Chill the shaped cookies
Place the shaped cookies on a tray and refrigerate them for 30 minutes before baking.
Ready to continue when: The cookies have spent 30 minutes in the refrigerator and hold their shape on the tray.
30 min - 06
Bake
Preheat the oven to 180 °C. Bake the cookies for 12 minutes, watching the colour of the bases and tops.
Temperature: 180 °C / 356 °FReady to continue when: The bases are beginning to brown slightly while the tops remain pale.
12 min - 07
Let cool
Remove the cookies from the oven and let them cool completely before handling.
Ready to continue when: The cookies are completely cool and can be handled without crumbling.
Ingredients
Sources and review
Content researched, cross-checked and automatically validated. Sources consulted:
- LA BIOTECNOLOGÍA PARA LA SEGURIDAD ALIMENTARIA, ECONÓMICA Y LA GEOPOLÍTICA doi.org/10.37885/221211159
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