Cookie Recipes

Billy Goat Date Cakes

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Yield: about 6 dozen cookies

Ingredients

  • 1 pound pitted dates
  • 1 cup chopped walnuts
  • 1/4 pound butter
  • 1 cup brown sugar
  • 2 eggs, beaten
  • 1/2 cup sour cream
  • 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1 teaspoon allspice
  • 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg or mace

Instructions

  1. Heat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease well a cookie sheet.
  2. Cut dates into pieces with scissors and mix with nuts.
  3. Cream butter with sugar and beat in eggs until light and fluffy.
  4. Beat in sour cream.
  5. Mix 1/2 cup of the flour into dates and nuts to coat them.
  6. Mix together remaining dry ingredients; stir into egg mixture, and add dates and nuts.
  7. Drop batter by spoonsful onto prepared cookie sheet.
  8. Bake at 350 degrees F until nicely browned, 10 to 12 minutes.


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