Baking Bonus: Great Grandma Lydia’s Date Filled Cookies
These cookies have been a treasured family recipe for decades. My great grandma was from Nebraska and made these as treats during the holidays. The cookies are sweet and satisfying with oatmeal in the dough. Every year these are the cookies I look forward to enjoying.
Dessert Recipe 📖📖📖📖📖
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Assemble the Ingredients
Easy to make dessert: 3/5 on the Easy as Pie scale 🥧🥧🥧
The first thing to do is prepare the dates. Don’t buy the prechopped dates; buy the whole dates and then put them in a food processor with a little bit of flour. Pulse the date until they are roughly chopped.
Pour one cup of water and one cup of sugar into a saucepan on high heat. Add the date and cook, stirring often until they turn into a paste. Once mix begins to boil, reduce the heat to low. Remove from heat.
Combine sugar, margarine, egg, milk and vanilla
The best liquid measuring cups I have ever used are these beaker type with 7 different sizes it is a wonderful set because you will always have the sizes needed for an entire recipe.
Then add all the dry ingredients alternating flour and oatmeal with the salt and baking soda added to the middle of the mix.
The dough will be sticky and so you may have to add a little more flour so that it does not stick to the counter.
Get out your and flour the surface.
Silicone Pastry Mat for Rolling Dough 16" x 24", Red LINK
If your dough is too sticky, knead in more flour. Then roll out the dough. Thickness of the dough is your preference – remember – the thicker it is the thicker the cookie will be.
Cut the dough with a glass or biscuit cutter that has been dipped in flour so that the cutter does not stick to the dough.
Take a spatula and pick up circle and put on a cookie sheet with a
Use , small scoop to add the date mixture.
This set has small, medium, and large scoops. Perfect for even cookies or filling cupcake liners.
Top the circle of dough with a tablespoon or so of date paste and cover with another circle of dough. Take a fork and press around the edges to seal the two circles together.
Bake for 12-15 minutes depending on how thick your cookies are. Remove to a cooling rack and sprinkle with sugar on top.
Taste: 5 stars! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Growing up I always begged my mom to make these at the holidays
Baking Bonus: Great Grandma Lydia's Date Filled Cookies
Ingredients
- 1 pound whole dates
- 1 cup water
- 1 cup sugar for date mixture
- 1 cup Crisco
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 tsp soda
- 1 cup sugar for cookie dough
- 1 egg
- ½ cup milk
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 2 cups oatmeal, quick or old fashioned
- 2½ cups flour
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees
- Put cut up dates, water and sugar in a sauce pan and cook over low heat, stirring occasionally until dates cook into a paste.
- Take off heat and put aside until needed.
- Combine sugar, margarine, egg, milk and vanilla in a stand mixer.
- Then add all the dry ingredients alternating oatmeal and flour.
- The dough will be sticky and so you may have to add a little more flour so that it does not stick to the counter.
- Flour the counter or pastry mat and roll out a portion of the dough.
- Knead in more flour if dough is too sticky to roll out.
- Thickness of the dough is your preference - remember - the thicker it is the thicker the cookie will be.
- Cut the dough with a glass or biscuit cutter that has been dipped in flour so that the cutter does not stick to the dough.
- Take a spatula and pick up circle and put on cookie sheet lined with a silicone baking mat
- Top the circle of dough with a tablespoon or so of date paste and cover with another circle of dough.
- Take a fork and press around the edges to seal the two circles together.
- Bake for 12-15 minutes depending on thickness of cookie.
What would I do differently next time?
I might use 3 cups of flour. My dough was very sticky and I did need to add more flour once on the counter.
Will I make it again?: Yes! 😋😋😋😋😋I make them every year!
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