Date Cookies

7 ingredients
8 steps

Ingredients

  • 200 g biscuits (marie or tea biscuits)
  • 250 g dates, loose, pipped
  • 115 g butter
  • 12 cup sugar (white)
  • 1 egg
  • 5 ml vanilla essence
  • desiccated coconut (optional)

Directions

  1. 1
    Melt butter and sugar then add dates and boil until the mixture is soft and mushy.
  2. 2
    (Cut up dates to melt quicker.
  3. 3
    ).
  4. 4
    Beat eggs and vanilla essence well and add to mixture.
  5. 5
    Break biscuits to finger nail size and add to mixture.
  6. 6
    Press into greased tin and let set in fridge until hard.
  7. 7
    Cut into bars and then ready to serve.
  8. 8
    OPTIONAL - Once cut into bars cover in coconut.

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