Dates In A Blanket
Ingredients
Filling Ingredients:
1 13 oz. pack of baking dates
1 tablespoon cinnamon
2 tablespoons olive oil
Dough Ingredients:
6 tablespoons unsalted butter
1 tablespoon vegetable oil
1 cup milk
2 teaspoons yeast
3 cups cups all-purpose flour+ ½
Preparation
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Directions for filling:
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In a small bowl knead together dates, cinnamon, and olive oil into a smooth mass.
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Directions for dough:
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Melt butter in a pan. Pour milk over the melted butter and let it warm until ≈98*F warm. Pour the mixture into a big bowl and add yeast. Stir and let it rest covered for 5 minutes, so that the yeast starts reacting. Add the egg, stir, and start adding flour until the dough stops sticking to the sides of the bowl. Knead the dough for 5 minutes, cover with plastic wrap, and let it rise until double in size, approximately 30 – 45 minutes.
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Divide the dough into three equal parts. Roll each dough ball into a 0.2 inch thick circle and divide it into 8 triangles.
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Place a date cigar on the wide side of the triangle and roll it into a crescent.
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Bake on the middle rack for 8 minutes in a 425*F preheated oven until golden brown and puffy. Let the crescents cool, down, sprinkle with confectioners’ sugar, and serve with tea or coffee.
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About
I had some left over baking dates from last time I made mammoul- the Middle Eastern holiday cookies. It’s time to use it, so I’m making some delicious date filled crescents- dates in blanket as my children call them. I’m making dough from scratch, but one can surely use store bought puff pastry, sugar cookie dough, or even biscuit dough, the fluffy one.
Yield:
24 crescents
Added:
Monday, November 8, 2010 - 11:22am
