Aunt Marie's Mamoul

Submitted by Dave Clements

"Tradional Lebanese cookies"

 

• Ready In: 1hr 55mins
• Ingredients: 7
• Yields: 12 dozen
• Serves: 24

ingredients

• 2 cups purified butter
• 4 cups sugar, 2 reserved for filling
• 5 cups flour, as required
• 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
• 4 cups pecans, chopped fine
• 2 tablespoons orange blossom water
• 4 drops water

directions

1. cream the butter with a mixer. continue mixing add sugar gradually continue mixing until fluffy.
2. then add the sifted flour and salt until you can form the dough and it stays shaped The dough should be firm enough that it doesn't stick to the sides of the bowl.
3. Combine the nuts sugar (probably don't want the full 2 cups anymore ) and orange blossom water.
4. Make the dough into walnut sized balls, make a hole in the middle, stuff with nuts and close.
5. Bake in a slow oven 250 degrees to 275 degrees for about 35 minutes.