Description
From sunset "cookies" book (1985). The preparation time calculations do not include the minimum 2 hour resting period for the dough.
Ingredients
- Butter
- Brown Sugar
- Eggs
- Vanilla
- All-purpose Flour
- Wheat Germ
- Salt
- Nutmeg
- Baking Soda
- Pitted Dates
- Water
- Honey
Instructions
- Cookie dough: in a large bowl of an electric mixer, beat butter and sugar until creamy
- Beat in eggs and vanilla
- In another bowl, stir together flour, wheat germ, salt, nutmeg, and baking soda
- Gradually add to butter mixture, blending thoroughly
- Cover dough tightly with plastic wrap and refrigerate until easy to handle for up to 3 days
- Meanwhile, prepare date filling
- Date filling: in a small pan, combine all the ingredients except the vanilla
- Cook over medium heat, stirring and mashing with a spooon, until mixture is thick and smooth
- Stir in vanilla
- Let cool
- Then cover and refrigerate
- Cookie assembly: preheat oven to 350f
- Take out 1 / 3 of the dough, leaving remaining dough in the refrigerator
- On a well-floured board, roll out dough to 1 / 16-inch thickness
- Cut out with a 3-inch cookie cutter
- Repeat with remaining dough, rolling and cutting one portion at a time
- Place half the cookies slightly apart on greased baking sheets
- Spoon a heaping teaspoonful of filling into each
- Cover each with another cookie and press edges together with a floured fork
- Decoratively slash top, if desired
- Bake in a 350f oven for 12 to 15 minutes or until lightly browned
- Transfer to racks and let cool
- Store airtight