Dates Cookies

Ingredients:

200 g butter at room temperature
400 g flour
200 g dates
100 g nuts
40 g dust sugar
1 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp orange blossom water

Preparing:

Mix the flour with the butter until forming an homogenous pastry.
Cover with sticky paper and refrigerate for 20 minutes.

Process the dates in the food processor.
Add the sugar, the cinnamon, the orange blossom water and the nuts until unifying.

Form a rectangle with the mass.
Make a roll with the dates mixture and place it in the center of the rectangle.
Close the cookies forming a cylinder and seal the ends well, to give form of medialuna.

Place in greased trays.
Bake at 170ºC (350ºF) for 20 minutes.

Let cool and sprinkle with extra dust sugar