Dark & White Date Cookies

About Dark & White Date Cookies

Ingredients

• Dates, chopped 4 to 5
• Refined flour 1 cup
• Rice flour 1 cup
• Butter 100 gms + to grease
• Icing sugar 1 cup

How to Make Dark & White Date Cookies (Stepwise Photos)

Method

1. Preheat oven to 180º C. Light grease a baking tray with some butter.
2. Take sugar and butter in a mixing bowl and beat with an electric beater till the mixture is light and fluffy.
3. Sieve flour and rice flour into this mixture. Add dates and mix well to make a dough.
4. Wrap the dough in cling film and keep in the refrigerator to chill.
5. Roll out the dough carefully into ½ cm thick sheet. Cut out cookies with a cookie cutter and keep them on the baking tray at a little distance from each other.
6. Keep the tray in the preheated oven and bake for 20-25 minutes.
7. Take the tray out of the oven and let the cookies cool down to room temperature. Arrange them on a serving platter and serve.

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Chaitrali Deshmukh

Thank you for the amazing instructions.

I have success w/ my dosa but does not last long stored in the refrigerator.

Maybe I am fermenting for too long, or add the salt before the rise?

I also was wondering if it is important to blend separately or can it be blended all together?

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Chef Saransh Goila

Hi Chaitrali,
Yes, cut down the fermentation time and add salt only to the required portion at the time of making the dosa. Also storing in smaller containers just enough for a day helps. Once the batter in a larger container is disturbed (by stirring or scooping out a little etc), I feel it turns sour faster. You can blend them together if you want. But we do it separately because we want the dal batter to become fluffy and the rice batter slightly coarse. Fluffy dal batter makes the dosas light and coarse rice batter makes them extra crispy without making the dosas hard. Hope this helps