DATES STUFFED WHITH ALMOND PAST

    "Assalamu Alaikum wa rahmatullahi" dear brothers

This sweet, typical of the Arab countries, will help us to surprise our guests. It doesn't need cooking, so it will be ready in 20 minutes.

Ingredients:

- 40 dates, pitted 
- 150 grams of ground almond powder
- 150 grams of powdered sugar
- 1 large spoon margarine at room temperature
- A few drops of orange blossom water
- 1 egg
- 50 grams of natural sugar (to decorate)

- Food coloring (optional)

 

preparation:

• In a bowl mix the ground almonds with the icing sugar and mix.
  
  
  

• Add the margarine, egg and a few drops of orange flower water to taste . Mix with your hands until you get a homogeneous paste almonds. (Many people put food coloring to the dough to make dates with different colors. In the photo I used green dye to have  green and white dates but optional)
  
  
  
   

• We take a little almond paste and shape it like a date.
  
  
• We open the date and fill with the almond paste.
  
  
  
  
   
  When we all stuffed we take a sharp knife and draw some grooves in the part that protrudes from the date paste to decorate.
  
  

• When they are all decorated with stretch marks we dust it with regular sugar to decorate.