Best Date Nut Cookie Pies Recipes

DATE COOKIES LIKE AWREY'S

Steps:

• Mix filling ingredients in saucepan. Cook til smooth. (Raspberry or strawberry jam may also be used as filling.)
• Mix cookie ingredients as if for a pie crust.
• Pat one half of the mixture on a buttered (8x8x2 inch) pan.
• Press down firmly and spread on the filling.
• Cover with the other half of the oatmeal mixture and press down lightly.
• Bake at 350° for 10-15 minutes. Cut into squares.

OLD FASHIONED DATE NUT COOKIES

Steps:

• 1. Make the filling. Shop the dates. I use a food processor to chop.
• 2. In a large sauce pan add the dates, granulated sugar, orange zest, and 2/3 cup of water. Stir and bring mixture to a boil. Continue cooking until mixture is very thick and boiled down to a paste. Remove from heat. empty into a bowl and refrigerate until cool. Mix in the walnuts after it cools.
• 3. Make the dough: In a bowl. Cream shortening and butter together on low speed with a mixer. Add in the brown sugar and mix well on low speed.
• 4. In another bowl. Mix together eggs, and vanilla. Add this mixture to the butter sugar mixture. Beat well.
• 5. In another bowl sift the flour baking soda, cinnamon and salt together . Add this to the creamed butter mixture. Add 1/2 cup chopped walnut's. Stir to combine.
• 6. Mix well By hand. Refrigerate dough for about 30 minutes to give it more stiffness. Heat oven to 350°. Parchment line a sheet pan, Or you may lightly grease a sheet pan.
• 7. in teaspoon size amounts. Make each in to a ball. Top each cookie with a teaspoon of date filling in center of ball. Push filling down into cookie . Place in oven and bake 10 to 15 minutes or until lightly golden brown. Let cool move to rack to cool completely.

MRS. AVER'S DATE WALNUT PIE

Steps:

• 1. In a large bowl, beat together sugar, syrup, salt, flour, and eggs. Mix well. Add melted butter, vanilla, nuts and dates (cut in pieces).
• 2. Pour into shell and bake for 10 minutes at 450 degrees. Then lower oven temperature to 300 degrees and continue baking for another 50 minutes, or until filling is set.

DATE NUT FILLED COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375°F.
• To prepare Filling:.
• Combine dates, water and sugar in a small saucepan. Cook over low heat until thick. Cool; add nuts.
• To prepare Cookie Dough:.
• Cream butter, add sugar and beat until light.
• Beat in eggs one at a time; add vanilla.
• Sift together flour, salt, soda and cinnamon. Add to creamed mixture alternately with buttermilk.
• Drop dough by rounded tablespoons onto buttered baking sheet 2" apart. Make a shallow indent in each cookie. Place a scant teaspoon of filling in indent. Cover with 1/2 teaspoon of dough.
• Bake 10 to 15 minutes or until lightly browned.
• Remove to wire rack to cool.
• Store between layers of wax paper in tightly covered container.

DATE NUT BALLS OR PIE CRUST!

Steps:

• Grind pecans, walnuts, and dates in a food processor until well chopped and blended. Add honey and continue to process until the mix forms a ball. Be careful not to overprocess.
• Pie Crust:.
• Press into bottom and sides of a pie pan before adding filling. Reserve some of the mix to crumble on top of finished pie. Fresh fruit makes a great filling, also a yogurt or tofu "cheesecake" is yummy!
• Balls:.
• Use as is or add 1 teaspoons cinnamon and/or 1/2 teaspoons nutmeg or 1 tbls. carob powder or 1-2 tbls. orange zest.
• Roll the dough into balls, then in flaked coconut, ground nuts or carob powder. Have fun and enjoy!