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Easter Cookies (Kaik el Eid, Ma'amoul) **REVIEW how to stuff into shell Recipe

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This recipe for Easter Cookies (Kaik el Eid, Ma'amoul) **REVIEW how to stuff into shell is from Zouka's Middle Eastern Cuisine and Beyond , one of the cookbooks created at FamilyCookbookProject.com. We'll help you start your own personal cookbook! It's easy and fun. Click here to start your own cookbook!
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Ingredients to make the dough shells:
3 cups yellow farina (smeed naaem)
3 cups unbleached all-purpose flour
3 1/4 cups sweet butter Or clarified butter (room temperature)
2 tsp mahlab ground (black cherry pit)
1 tsp nutmeg
1 cup powdered sugar to decorate
1 1/2 cups water, mix and dissolve with 3/4 cup sugar for kneading
(You need 3 Types of molds for shaping each kind of the Ma'amoul)

The 3 kinds of stuffing:
#1. 1 lb chopped walnuts mixed with 4 tbs sugar, and 2 tsp cinnamon, 2 tsp rose water.
#2. 1 lb chopped pistachios, mixed with 4 tbs sugar, 2 tsp rose water.
#3. 2 Packages of minced dates, 1 1/2 tsps of cinnamon, and 3 tsps of butter room temperature. Mix all together, cut and mold into small sized balls.
Directions:
Directions:
In a large tub, add the farina, flour, salt, mahlab, nutmeg and mix. Then add melted butter and combine the dried ingredients with the butter very well to blend together. let it rest for one hour. Mix the water and sugar together and began to add them slowly as needed over the mixture, continue rubbing mixture between your hands, then kneading lightly to combine, add water if the dough dry or you can add more flour if the dough is too soft.
Make the dough roughly to the size of walnuts. To be ready to stuff.

With your finger, make a hole in the middle and stuff it with 1 tsp of stuffing (your choice of stuffing.) Make it into the shape you like, by using a mold for it. Place the stuffed dough on a baking sheet. After you finish all of the cookie dough and stuffing it, preheat your oven to 375º. Bake for 15 to 20 minutes, until cookies reach a light golden color. Do not remove the cookies off of the sheet until they are completely cooled. Store the cookies in a closed container until you are ready to serve. Sprinkle some powdered sugar to decorate when serving them.
Personal Notes:
Personal Notes:
This recipe is tradition in our family for a long time.

 

 

 

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