how to make Moroccan sweets with dates and nuts
Ingredients for sweets dates
- two eggs,
- 250 grams of soft butter.
- baking powder 8 grams.
- A small cup of vegetable oil.
- Half a cup of blossom water.
- 100 grams of icing sugar.
- vanilla sugar 8 grams.
- A quarter teaspoon of salt.
- Confectionery flour as needed (about 700 grams).
how to prepare date filling:
- Half a kilo of date dough.
- Half a cup of sesame roasted.
- A tablespoon of butter.
- A teaspoon of cinnamon.
- Two tablespoons of blossom water.
- A cup of crushed peanuts or any kind of nuts as desired.
How to prepare sweet dates
- We mix butter with sugar, icing, salt, and vanilla sugar well until we get the shape of a cream.
- Add the eggs, then the oil, and mix the ingredients well until the ingredients are well combined.
- Add the blossom water and mix well with a hand mixer.
- Add the chemical yeast and flour little by little, until we get a soft, moist dough that does not stick to the hands.
- The dough is collected and wrapped in food plastic, then left to rest until the completion of preparing the date paste.
- Put the date paste in a bowl and add the sesame, cinnamon, blossom water, and nuts, then mix well so that the ingredients mix with each other.
- Make small balls equal in size to the date paste.
- We take a little sweet dough and simplify it a little between the palms of the hand, then put a ball of dates, cover with the dough and press it inside the pastry stamp.
- Lay it out on top of the tray, after having greased it with a little butter or oil. You can also put parchment paper.
- We enter the tray into the preheated oven until the sweetness is ripe.
- The sweet is passed after being removed from the oven in icing sugar while it is still hot.
- After the sweet dates have cooled down, they are ready to be served.
Delicious nuts balls
Ingredients
To prepare more than a kilogram of sweets, approximately 40 tablets, we need:
- Half a kilo of date paste.
- Any type of biscuit or sweet cookie is approximately 200 grams crushed. Two tablespoons of coarse sugar.
- Two tablespoons of honey or apricot jam for sweets.
- A cup and a half of roasted and crushed peanuts or a cup of ground almonds.
- Two tablespoons of animal butter. 7 grams of vanilla sugar. A quarter teaspoon of salt.
How to prepare
- In a casserole, put sugar, honey or jam, salt, butter, and vanilla sugar, and stir constantly over low heat, as soon as boiling bubbles begin to form, remove the casserole from the heat.
- In a bowl, put the dates, add the peanut biscuits, then the prepared mixture in the casserole while it is hot.
- We mix it with a wooden spoon after it cools down a little.
- We use our fingers of the hand and massage the ingredients well to obtain a moist and homogeneous dough.
- We grease the palms of our hands with honey or jam for sweets, then we take 12 grams of date paste, put almond or a piece of any kind of nuts in the middle, then we form a ball.
- The pellets are passed in crushed peanuts or almonds.
- Roasted sesame or coconut can also be used.
Dates stuffed with nuts
Ingredients:
- Quantity of dates as desired
- Walnuts (or any kind of nuts)
- Almond paste
Method:
- We take the dates and wash them, then with a clean napkin we dry them.
- Slit the dates on one side.
- We remove the kernel and put a little almond paste in its place (food coloring can be added), then a piece of nuts.
- Almond paste can be dispensed with and two or three grains of almonds or walnuts can be placed inside the date.
- Arrange the date grains on a serving plate.
all dried fruits can be mixed with dates
Almond paste
- A quarter of a kilo of boiled almonds peeled off.
- The same amount of icing sugar. A few drops of almond flavor. a little honey.
- Orange blossom water.
how to make the almond paste:
- grind almonds and sugar together
- Add drops of almond flavor and grind again.
- Add a little honey little by little to make the dough come together.
- Add a spoonful of blossom water, then knead well by hand on a surface sprinkled with icing sugar, until we get a soft and moist dough.
- Leave to rest so that the almond paste becomes ready for use.
The almond dough is widely used in the manufacture of luxurious Moroccan sweets