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Date Cookies

May 13, 2012 By Little Grazers 3 Comments

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I wanted to try and make some cookies that my daughter could enjoy that wasn’t high on sugar. These actually turned out quite nice, they reminded me a bit of a molasses type cookie and my daughter certainly enjoyed them. The only thing I might do differently next time, is add some dried fruit pieces too (perhaps sultanas or similar)

Date Cookies

Makes 18 cookies

Ingredients

  • 1 cup of all purpose flour
  • 1/2 tsp of all spice
  • 1/2 cup of unsalted butter
  • 3/4 cup of pitted dates
  • 2 tablespoons of fresh pineapple juice
  • 1 egg yolk. beaten

Directions

Sieve the flour and all spice into a large bowl.

Add the butter, pineapple juice and dates to a small saucepan and heat until butter is melted and just starts bubbling. (you need the dates to slightly softened from the heat) Then using a hand blender, blend until you have a smooth paste with small piece of dates.

Allow mixture to cool and then add the egg and whisk until smooth.

Add this to the flour and mix to a dough. Roll into a log and then wrap in cling film and refrigerate until firm.

Remove from refrigerator, preheat oven to 190c or 375f (gas mark 5)

Slice dough into 6mm slices. Place on a baking tray and bake in the oven for approx 10 mins until golden.

Remove to a wire rack to cool.
 

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Filed Under: Baby Led Weaning, Finger Foods, Fussy Eaters Tagged With: babies, baby led weaning, biscuits, blw, children, cookies, dates, finger foods, fussy eaters, little grazers, recipes

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  1. Icema

    July 17, 2013 at 12:11 pm

    Hi there – I made a batch of these cookies today. I didn’t have any unsalted butter so I used margarine instead. They are yummy but not very crunchy. Are they suppose to be soft like mini cakes?
    Ays

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    • LittleGrazers

      July 19, 2013 at 5:32 pm

      no they should be like a biscuit. I can only assume it was the margarine.

      Reply
  2. Leyla

    February 14, 2015 at 10:30 am

    Can you freeze these biscuits? As want to make a batch but if we ate them fresh we’d be constantly eating biscuits for a couple of days. I’d like to freeze 2/3 in some cling film and take them out as and when we want them, is that possible?

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