Cookie spices

flour (about 280 grams) • cornstarch (about 60 grams) • powdered milk (about 50 grams) • sugar (about 100 grams) • oil (about 180 ml) • eggs • vanilla • ground cardamom • baking powder • salt • For the filling: • pitted dates •

flour (about 190 grams) • cinnamon • ground caraway • unsweetened cocoa powder • salt • plus 1/2 tablespoon unsalted butter, at room temperature (about 120 grams) • white sugar • Brown sugar (enough to make a total of 1/2 cup sugar combined with the white sugar) • egg • vanilla extract • For garnish: • Nuts soaked in water for at least 1 hour (to soften) •

Dough Ingredients: • coarse semolina (about 160 grams) • fine semolina (about 160 grams) • ghee (about 225 grams) • sugar (about 150 grams) • milk (120 ml) • rose water • yeast • mahlab (optional, ground cherry pit spice) • Filling Ingredients: • walnuts, chopped (about 100 grams) • sugar •

Dough Ingredients • medium-coarse semolina (about 800 grams) • fine semolina (about 400 grams) • unsalted butter or ghee (about 500 grams) • powdered milk • sugar • active dry yeast • simple syrup • orange blossom water • rose water • salt • Walnut Filling Ingredients •

(about 8 cups) all-purpose flour • ghee or clarified butter, softened to room temperature • unsalted butter, softened to room temperature • orange blossom water • rose water • sweetened condensed milk • mahlab spice • salt • (about 1 1/4 cups) date paste • ghee or clarified butter, softened • ground cinnamon • ground cloves •

fine semolina flour • all-purpose flour • (1300 grams) clarified butter or ghee • vegetable oil • ground nutmeg, or to taste • mahlab spice, or to taste • kaak spice (or maamoul spice), or to taste • salt • milk (about 240 ml), for kneading • For the filling: • (1 kg) pitted dates, ground • walnuts, chopped •

fine semolina (about 4 1/2 cups) • semolina (about 1 3/4 cups) • clarified butter or ghee (about 1 3/4 cups) • sugar (200 grams) • powdered milk (about 50 grams) • mixed orange blossom and rose water (240 ml) • mahlab spice • yeast • Filling: • pistachios (about 2 1/2 cups) • clarified butter or ghee • powdered sugar •

fine semolina or very fine semolina flour • (2 sticks/225 grams) softened unsalted butter • ghee or vegetable shortening (can substitute with more butter) • sugar • mahlab spice • small cup (about 1/4 cup/60 ml) orange blossom water mixed with rose water • Extra orange blossom water and rose water for kneading the dough • yeast • For the filling: • dates, pitted and chopped • (about 1/4 stick/28 grams) butter • mahlab spice •

coarse semolina (about 320 grams) • fine semolina flour (about 320 grams) • sugar (about 100 grams) • clarified butter or ghee (about 300 grams) • mahlab spice • yeast • orange blossom water (about 60 ml) • rose water (about 60 ml) • Powdered sugar, for dusting • walnuts (about 200 grams) • sugar (about 50 grams) • small espresso cup (about 1.5 oz/45 ml) mixed orange blossom and rose water

(about 9 pounds) fine semolina • dry milk powder • powdered sugar • vegetable oil • melted ghee (or clarified butter) • unsalted butter or margarine (about 1 1/4 cups) • mahlab and mastic (ground) • yeast • warm water • date paste • walnuts • pistachios •

flour (about 7 cups) • powdered milk • ghee (about 2 1/2 cups) • prepared sugar syrup • orange blossom water • Any flavorings you like • vanilla and mahlab • baking powder • Filling • pitted dates, ground • cinnamon • ghee •

medium semolina • ghee or clarified butter • powdered milk • mahlab spice • simple syrup • granulated sugar • yeast • mixture of orange blossom water and rose water • Date filling • (about 7 oz/200 grams) pitted dates, ground • cardamom • ghee or clarified butter •

cold all-purpose flour • cold clarified butter or ghee • vegetable oil • powdered milk • simple syrup • powdered sugar • ice-cold mixture of orange blossom water and rose water • Filling • pistachios • Simple syrup flavored with rose water • clarified butter or ghee • dates •

coarse semolina (about 4 1/2 cups) • fine semolina (about 1 cup) • clarified butter or ghee (about 2 cups or 500 grams) • mixture of orange blossom water and rose water • powdered milk • sugar • simple syrup • mahlab spice • yeast • Filling: • pistachios (about 3 cups) • simple syrup flavored with rose water •

semolina (about 640 grams) • all-purpose flour (about 250 grams) • sugar (about 150 grams) • yeast • mahlab (optional, ground cherry pit spice) • clarified butter or unsalted butter, melted (about 450 grams) • orange blossom water (about 120 ml) • rose water (about 120 ml) • Filling :: • pistachios or walnuts, chopped (about 2 2/3 cups) • rose water (about 60 ml) • powdered sugar (about 60 grams)

coarse semolina • fine semolina • all-purpose flour • butter • ghee • sweetened condensed milk • powdered milk • sugar • mahlab • Orange blossom water and rose water • yeast • Filling: •

For the dough: • coarse semolina • fine semolina • sugar • ghee • butter • mahlab • yeast • orange blossom water • rose water (if the orange blossom and rose water are authentic, use 1 tablespoon of each and replace the remaining amount with water) • Cream ingredients: • powdered milk •