August 27th, 2009
Date and Walnut Cookies
Each year during Janmashtami I put my culinary skills to maximum use for the celebrations. My son is doing a fantastic job of keeping me awake at night and this year I had the energy and time for just one treat. People, do send in your prayers for his sleep cycle to change.
Since I love fruit and nut combinations and especially a cake made with date and walnuts, I wondered if the same combination could be used to make cookies. A Google search revealed that there were many others who had already thought on similar lines and I was quite surprised to find many recipes for date and walnut cookies. This one caught my fancy and I made a few variations to make my version of date and walnut cookies.
A great afternoon snack packed with the goodness of whole ingredients, I’m thrilled to have this recipe in my kitty. I would any day munch into a cookie made at home than dig into something that is store bought and factory manufactured stuffed with energy depriving emulsifiers and preservatives.
Everyone who tasted this cookie absolutely adored them and these cookies have won me rave reviews. Mellow, soft, sweet and nutrient dense dates with crunchy, health friendly walnuts find residence amidst whole wheat goodness in this recipe. If these make way into your cookie jar, its quite nice to satisfy those mini hunger pangs that haunt most of us in-between large meals. This would also look nice and healthy in a child’s tiffin box.
Date and Walnut Cookies Recipe
Ingredients:
225 gm (8 oz) whole wheat flour
200 gm (1 cup) dates, chopped
100 gm (1 cup) walnuts, chopped
200 gm (2 sticks) butter, melted
100 gm (3/4 cup) fine sugar
2 tsp baking powder
½ tsp baking soda
Method:
Sieve the flour, baking powder and baking soda together once. Mix in the chopped dates and walnuts. Stir in the sugar into the melted butter when the butter is hot.
After the butter reaches room temperature or cools down, stir in the flour mixture. Mix the ingredients together until well combined.
Make balls with your hands and flatten the balls with your palm. Alternatively use a cookie cutter to get even sized cookies.
Bake at 180 degree centigrade (350 degree F or gas mark 4) for about 18 minutes or until golden brown.
Makes 25 cookies
August 28th, 2009 at 7:09 am
Same here sleepless nights with my 2months old daughter….praying for her cycle change
Dates and wallnut yum combo…luved the first pic!
August 28th, 2009 at 11:05 am
Wonderful cookies Shruti.. Looks soo delicious.. perfect presentation.
August 28th, 2009 at 6:54 pm
Cookies have come out lovely!
August 30th, 2009 at 12:15 am
I will most definitely pray that your kiddo doesn’t keep you up. I’m guessing that’s why the late night tweetning, huh? I’ve had a date and walnut cake on my to-bake list since forever! Something or the other always ends up looking more delicious.
August 31st, 2009 at 6:15 am
These look scrumptious….I am drooling!!! The best part is that I like the fact that there is no use of maida/all purpose flour and you have used whole wheat instead. It makes the cookies so much healthier.
August 31st, 2009 at 6:35 pm
hope your baby is less than 6 months old. my 7th month, you can change the sleep pattern!
Love the combo in Cookies!
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August 31st, 2009 at 8:15 pm
Purple Foodie: Thanks buddy.
Lavi: My son is 5 1/2 months old. Thank you for the award, very sweet of you.
September 1st, 2009 at 5:39 pm
Iam glad to share the awards with you Anushruti:)
Try different timings for giving bath,feeding baby, and once you start solid’s, your little son can sleep at a stretch for 7hrs.
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September 2nd, 2009 at 2:24 pm
This is the first ever baking recipe i ever tried and my first venture with the oven. It came out well….thank u very much, your measurements at apt, nothing more, nothing less. Will surely try the other things out…
September 2nd, 2009 at 2:49 pm
I am certainly praying for you!!
I love this combination, coffee date walnut cake is one of my favorites!! I think I’m going to give this a try, with coffee of course!!
September 2nd, 2009 at 2:52 pm
Sharmilee: Thanks. That’s indeed nice of you.
binam: I’m glad you liked these cookies and happy that they came out well. Thank you for reporting back.
Avanika: Thanks.
September 15th, 2009 at 9:44 am
Wow the cookies have come out perfect. It looks tempting.
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January 29th, 2010 at 2:05 pm
I tried a similar version from a book, were the cookies crispy or chewy?
January 29th, 2010 at 2:31 pm
Also the wheat flour mentioned is atta or pastry flour?
January 30th, 2010 at 11:58 am
Sharmilee: They were a combination of both crispy and chewy. The flour used is simple whole wheat flour or atta which is easily available. Pastry flour is not easily available.