Date Cookies

Total Time: 1 hr 20 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 1 hr

Ingredients

• 200 g biscuits (marie or tea biscuits)
• 250 g dates, loose, pipped
• 115 g butter
• 1/2 cup sugar ()
• 1 egg
• 5 ml vanilla essence
• desiccated coconut (optional)

Recipe

• 1 melt butter and sugar then add dates and boil until the mixture is soft and mushy.(cut up dates to melt quicker.).
• 2 beat eggs and vanilla essence well and add to mixture.
• 3 break biscuits to finger nail size and add to mixture.
• 4 press into greased tin and let set in fridge until hard.
• 5 cut into bars and then ready to serve.
• 6 optional - once cut into bars cover in coconut.