Recipe For Oatmeal Cookies With Date Filling

Fill with date filling to form a sandwich.

Recipe for oatmeal cookies with date filling. Top with another heaping teaspoon of dough spreading it to roughly cover the filling. Refrigerate the cookie dough for at least 4 hours. Old fashioned oatmeal cookies with date filling are similar to oatcakes.

Step 2 cook date filling and let cool a little. Cut into 2 1 2 inch rounds. Place on ungreased baking sheets.

In a saucepan combine the dates sugar lemon juice and water. Bring date mixture to a boil and simmer for a minute. Take one cookie and spread a 1 inch layer of date filling on top and place a second cookie on top.

Tsp ground nutmeg. Step 5 put cookies on cookie sheet. 10 minutes or until golden brown.

Bring to a boil. Smooth warm filling onto 1 2 cookies flip them so cookie sheet side gets filling. Bake in 350 f oven for 8 10 minutes.

Step 4 with donut cutter roll out half of the dough with the hole of cutter out and other half with hole in. Step 3 roll out dough on floured board. Roll out fairly thin on lightly floured board.