Date Cookies

Really nice creamy date cookies that use Marie biscuits or flat round slightly sweetened biscuits (tea biscuits).

• Ready In: 1 hr 20 mins
• Yields: 10-25 bars

Ingredients

• 200  g  biscuits (marie or tea biscuits)
• 250  g dates, loose, pipped
• 115  g butter
• 1⁄2 cup sugar (white)
• 1  egg
• 5  ml vanilla essence
•  desiccated coconut (optional)

Directions

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