Date Cookies
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Date Cookies
Description
This recipe produces soft cookies featuring sweet chopped dates and toasted pecans folded into a standard cookie dough base of butter, sugars, eggs, vanilla, and flour mixed with baking soda and salt. Toasting the pecans before mixing enhances their flavor and crunch. Chilling the dough before baking thickens the cookies and enhances chewiness.
Cookies bake until golden and puffed, delivering a balance of sweetness from the dates and sugars with a tender yet chewy texture supported by the flour and leavening. The pecans add depth and contrast to the soft crumb.
Date Cookies can be enjoyed as a snack or dessert, pairing well with tea or coffee. Leftovers keep at room temperature for up to a week in airtight storage. Dough can be made two days in advance or frozen rolled into logs for later slicing and baking, providing flexibility for timing baking sessions.
Ingredients
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt
- 1 cup butter at room temperature
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- ½ cup light brown sugar packed
- 3 egg at room temperature
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 1 ½ cups pecans toasted, chopped
- 1 ½ cups dates pitted; chopped
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350ºF. Line baking sheets with parchment paper.
- In a medium bowl combine the flour, baking soda, and salt.
- In the bowl of an electric mixer, beat the butter, granulated sugar and brown sugar until well combined, about 2 minutes.
- Add the eggs one at a time, then add the vanilla. Gradually add the flour mixture. Mix on low speed until the flour is well incorporated. Stir in the pecans and dates.
- If time permits, cover the dough with plastic and chill for 2 hours or overnight. This allows the cookies to be thicker more chewy.
- Scoop the chilled dough using a spring-loaded cookie scoop onto the prepared baking sheet, leaving about 2 inches between each cookie. It should make about 48 cookies
- Bake 8-11 minutes, or until golden brown and cookie is puffed.
- Cool for 5 minutes before removing to wire racks to cool completely.
Notes
- Store leftover cookies in an airtight container at room temperature for 5-7 days to maintain freshness.
- Dough can be prepared up to two days ahead; rolling into logs and freezing allows for easy slicing before baking later.
- Dates are typically found in Middle Eastern markets or natural-food stores; date paste can be used as an alternative.
- Substitute pecans with walnuts or omit nuts entirely for a nut-free version without impacting the cookie texture significantly.
- Each serving assumes two cookies per person.
Nutrition Information
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Serving: 48cookies
Amount Per Serving
Calories 250 kcal
% Daily Value*
| Serving | 2cookies | |
| Calories | 250kcal | 13% |
| Carbohydrates | 32g | 11% |
| Protein | 3g | 6% |
| Fat | 12g | 18% |
| Saturated Fat | 5g | 25% |
| Cholesterol | 40mg | 13% |
| Sodium | 226mg | 9% |
| Potassium | 121mg | 3% |
| Fiber | 1g | 4% |
| Sugar | 19g | 38% |
| Vitamin A | 285IU | 6% |
| Vitamin C | 0.1mg | 0% |
| Calcium | 22mg | 2% |
| Iron | 1.1mg | 6% |
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
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