Spice Date Cookies Recipe

Posted by NancyRadler on February 4th, 2009 at 12:00am

These spice date cookies are very soft and tasty especially with the icing. You can definitely taste the spices in these cookies - they make your kitchen smell wonderful during cooking.

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Ingredients

Cookies:
1 C. shortening
1 3/4 C. brown sugar
2 eggs
1 C. chopped nuts
1 C. cut up dates
5 Tbs. sour cream
4 C. flour
1 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. baking powder
2 tsp. cinnamon
1/4 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. nutmeg
1 tsp. cloves
2 tsp. vanilla

Frosting:
1 3/4 C. powdered sugar
1/8 tsp. salt
3 Tbs. strong coffee, cold
3 Tbs. butter
1 tsp. vanilla

Directions

In a bowl, cream together shortening and brown sugar. Add eggs, chopped nuts, cut up dates, and sour cream. Beat for 3 minutes and then add flour, baking soda, baking powder, cinnamon, salt, nutmeg, cloves and vanilla. Shape into loaf on wax paper. Make loaf 3 inches wide. Chill for several hours. Slice and bake until light and soft on ungreased pan. Bake 8 minutes at 350 degrees. Let cool on cooling rack.

For frosting, mix powdered sugar, salt, coffee, butter and vanilla. Allow frosting to dry before storing in containers. Let cool/set and then frost cookies.

Spice Date Cookies Recipe

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