Turkish style Date Filled With Cookies have a wonderful combination of flavours. Orange zest and dates go perfectly and they take you to the next level when they are filled in pistachio flavoured cookie dough.
Ingredients For Date Filled Cookie Recipe
For the filling mixture:
- 1 orange zest, sliced in cubes
- 2 tbsp orange juice
- 20 dates
- 3 tbsp ground hazelnut
- 2 tbsp hot water
For the dough:
- 2 cups flour
- ½ cup ground pistachio
- ½ cup powdered sugar
- 1 tbsp vanilla
- 1 tbsp baking powder
- 1 egg white
- 1 stick butter, at room temperature and chopped in cubes
How To Make Date Stuffed Cookies
For the filling mixture, remove the seeds of dates and wait them in hot water for some minutes so that they can be chopped easier.
Put the dates into a mini chopper, add hot water and orange juice and chop them. If it’s still so dry, add a little more hot water and mix together until combined well. Add hazelnut and orange zest cubes in this mixture.
Sift the flour on the counter. Add vanilla, pistachio, baking powder and confectioner’s sugar on it. In the middle of the flour, toss the butter cubes and egg white. Knead this mixture well until it’s not sticky and soft enough.
Take pieces from the dough, flatten them out, put enough filling mixture in them and roll them in your hands. Place the cookies on the baking sheet. Bake them at a preheated oven for 20 minutes and take out from oven. Let them cool for a minute on the baking sheet and then transfer onto a cooling rack.
You can keep these in an airtight container for a week.
More Turkish Style Cookies
- Turkish Sesame Cookies With Tahini
- 4-Ingredient Vegan Tahini Cookies
- Turkish Cookies With Apples and Walnuts
- Turkish Chickpea Flour Cookies
- Fig Cookie Recipe
Date Filled Cookies
Cookies filled with a orange flavored date mixture.
- Prep Time: 25 minutes
- Cook Time: 13 minutes
- Total Time: 38 minutes
- Yield: 24 1x
- Category: Dessert
- Method: Baking
- Cuisine: Turkish
Ingredients
For the filling mixture:
- 1 orange zest, sliced in cubes
- 2 tbsp orange juice
- 20 dates
- 3 tbsp ground hazelnut
- 2 tbsp hot water
For the dough:
- 2 cups flour
- ½ cup ground pistachio
- ½ cup powdered sugar
- 1 tbsp vanilla
- 1 tbsp baking powder
- 1 egg white
- 1 stick butter, at room temperature and chopped in cubes
Instructions
- For the filling mixture, remove the seeds of dates and wait them in hot water for some minutes so that they can be chopped easier.
- Put the dates into a mini chopper, add hot water and orange juice and chop them. If it’s still so dry, add a little more hot water and mix together until combined well.
- Add hazelnut and orange zest cubes in this mixture.
- Sift the flour on the counter. Add vanilla, pistachio, baking powder and confectioner’s sugar on it.
- In the middle of the flour, toss the butter cubes and egg white. Knead this mixture well until it’s not sticky and soft enough.
- Lay the baking paper in a baking sheet.
- Preheat the oven at 350F.
- Take a tablespoon of piece from the dough, flatten it out, put about 1 teaspoon filling mixture in it and roll it in your hands. Place it on the baking sheet. Repeat for the remaining dough.
- Bake them for 13 minutes and take out from oven. Let them cool.
- You can keep these in an airtight container for a week. Put some orange zest slices in the container if you like. It gives a fresh smell to the cookies.
Keywords: date filled cookies
Look delicious! Will definitely make them!!!
If I had orange zest right now I would make these cookies this very minute! Zerrin, I just wanted to stop by because I made the thimble soup AGAIN (because it is so good!), but I’m curious as to how to pronounce the turkish version. If you can explain it phonetically I would be so happy, as I’ve shared your link at a post on my blog.
PS – any suggestions on your list of recipes that would go good with Efes beer?
When I first saw these I was like cookies? I read on and realised that they were cookies. I like them. We make something like this in the Caribbean we call it Rock Cake but it is coloured yellow. Anyways happy blog anniversary. I really like coming to this blog even if there are meat post because even reading them there is always something new to learn from them. Keep on posting and I will keep on commenting.
Taymer
This sounds incredibly tastee, recipe…Pictures are bright and gorgeous:)
Thanks for sharing this tasty looking delicious recipe 🙂
These cookies sound scrumptious with dates & hazelnuts! Happy New Year and happy blogoversary (it must be sometime this week, right?) Hugs, Natasha
We’re well into 2010 by now, so Happy New Year Zerrin! It’s been great to learn so much through your blog and those cookies sound like a fabulous way to celebrate the past year and look forward to the new one.
I like the combination of dates, orange zest and hazelnut filling. Looks delicious!
Best wishes for 2010!
So glad i found this space…its wonderful….great recipe…
That’s very beautiful recipe. The filling looks absolutely gorgeous. Love the orange flavour. Being a teacher before I can understand the workload each day. But you have been amazing in giving us wonderful recipes each time. I can also identify with you about blogging. It actually blows my mind away. It has become such an interesting part of my life. The most amazing thing about blogging is meeting a lot of wonderful friends, friends like you, who make blogging very meaningful and fun. Wishing you and your family a most wonderful and prosperous New Year 2010! Mary from Scotland.
This is really very interesting! A cookie that has a surprise in the middle when you bite into it! I am so glad to have found your blog this year. Wishing you and your family a wonderful 2010, filled with joy and laughter.
Ju
Thank you for sharing this recipe as I mentioned before these recipes are so foreign to me and I am truly inspired by them! Also, I feel the same way about my blog – it has truly become a big part of my life and “meeting” people like you makes it even more fulfilling!
Waw!! these sounds so delcious, Zerrin!!
Very apart & ooh so festive too!! I so love the inside!!
Happy new Year!
This cookie is really calling. I love the ground pistachio for the dough, and the filling just awesome.
Looks like the year 2009 was filled with excitement and happiness for you. I wish many more of those in the New Year!
Great recipe as usual. I will give it a try one day for sure. I love hidden treasures inside the cookies:)
just wanted to tell you. I discovered your blog a few months ago. I have really enjoyed every entry i’ve read.
Zerrin, I for one am glad you were inspired enough to create this wonderful gift of knowledge that you continue to share, and I look forward to learning even more in 2010. Not only do I learn, I get amazing recipes to shock and amaze family and friends. Thank you!
salam zerrin
this sounds so delicious
best wishes for 2010
Thanks for this recipe Happy New Year!
this must be so good!! I love the combination of the ingredients…evrything put in is delicious. Yummm. :))
Tasty lookin’ cookies, Zerrin. I enjoy reading your blog. Keep at it. ;-D
Happy New Year, to you too! Beautiful and lovely recipe and pictures, Zerrin. Thank you for all you share here on Give Recipe. I’ve learned so much from reading your blog.
Warmest wishes and hugs…
Leesie
Thank you for sharing all those fantastic recipes with us 🙂 Happy 2010!
It sounds like 2009 was a fantastic year for you, Zerrin! And congrats on 153 posts, that is truly an accomplishment! I can’t wait to see what 2010 brings!
These cookies sound perfect with the flavors of nuts, dates, and orange!
Happy New Year to you and yours, Zerrin!
looks great! happy new years to you too!
delicious thanks for this recipe Happy new Year!
WoW, you share such wonderful Recipes with all of us!
Thank you for all the time you have taken to share wonderful gifts of food with us. (hug) I hope you have a Wonderful New Year!!!
It is always a pleasure to read your yummy blog Zerrin 🙂
Wonderful cookies with orange flavor, mmm one of my favorite!
Really hope a Fantastic New Year for you, your family and friends!:D
Cheers,
Gera