Cinnamon date pastry (dried dates)

AUTHOR
Valentine Lee
DIFFICULTY
easy
RATING
3 3
COOK TIME
60 mins
TOTAL TIME
60 mins

Ingredients

Servings: 30
  • 250 g Flour
  • 1 pinch Salt
  • 1 pinch Baking Powder
  • 1 knife tip ground pimento
  • 1 package (6 g) grated orange peel
  • 1/2 box ground saffron
  • 2 Eggs (size M)
  • 100 g Sugar
  • 150 g Butter
  • 200 g dried dates
  • 7-10 Tbsp stoneless
  • 6 TABLESPOONS Orange juice
  • 40 g chopped pine nuts
  • 1/2 TEASPOON ground cinnamon
  • 1 TEASPOON Milk
  • 7-10 Tbsp Flour
  • 7-10 Tbsp Icing sugar
  • baking paper

Directions

  1. 1

    Mix flour, salt, baking powder, allspice and orange peel in a bowl. Press a depression in the middle. Whisk together the saffron, 1 egg and 1 teaspoon of water. Pour into the bowl. Spread the fat in flakes and sugar on the flour rim. Knead everything into a smooth dough.

  2. 2

    Cover the dough and chill for about 1 hour. In the meantime, chop dates very finely and sprinkle with orange juice. Roll out the short pastry on a floured work surface to form 2 rectangles (each approx. 12 x 40 cm). Let the dates drip off if necessary. Mix with nuts and cinnamon. Spread the date mixture over the rectangles. Separate the egg. Spread the edges of the dough with whisked egg white. Roll up the dough strips from the long side, with the seam side down. Chill for about 1 hour. Line a baking tray with baking paper.

  3. 3

    Spread the date mixture over the rectangles. Separate the egg. Spread the edges of the dough with whisked egg white. Roll up the dough strips from the long side, with the seam side down. Chill for about 1 hour. Line a baking tray with baking paper. Whisk egg yolk and milk. Brush the rolls with it and cut them diagonally into about 15 pieces. Put the dough pieces on the baking tray. Bake in the preheated oven (electric cooker: 175 ° C/ gas: level 2) for 15-20 minutes. Let the date pastry cool down and dust with icing sugar

  4. 4

    Whisk egg yolk and milk. Brush the rolls with it and cut them diagonally into about 15 pieces. Put the dough pieces on the baking tray. Bake in the preheated oven (electric cooker: 175 ° C/ gas: level 2) for 15-20 minutes. Let the date pastry cool down and dust with icing sugar

Nutrition Facts

KCAL
110 kcal
CARBS
14 g
FATS
6 g
PROTEINS
2 g

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