Ba'ba Cakes with date filling
Ba'ba Cakes with date filling
Recipe of Mrs. Ada Yehuda. Quantities for 30 cakes.
Ingredients for dough: 1 kg flour
1/2 cup sugar
1 3/4 packets of unsalted margarine
2 eggs
50 gr yeast
lukewarm water, as needed for the dough (about 2 cups)
Ingredients for the filling:
750 gr dates with stones removed
2 sp oil
pinch of cinnamon
1 whipped egg
1/2 cup sesame seeds
Preparation:
1. Dough: Dice margarine and mix all the dough ingredients in a mixingbasin with spatula. Add yeast stirred into lukewarm water last. Kneed doughnice and soft, and leave to rise.
2. Filling: Warm dates 1 - 1 1/2 minutes in microwave, mash, add oiland cinnamon, blend into a soft mixture.
3. Cakes: Roll dough balls 6 cm in diameter in palms of hands. Make adepression in middle of each ball, fill with 1 sp filling, then seal. Flattenballs with rolling pin to 10 cm diamter and 1 cm thick.
4, Baking: Lay cakes in greased pan and prod with fork. Brush on eggand sprinkle sesame seeds. Bake in medium to hot oven until cakes are golden.
Bon appetit!