Dates Cookies - Eggless

I amm beginner in baking recipes and I want to try the cookies for a long time and finally on a fine saturday, i tried for the first time. since my mother wont eat egg, i didnt add egg to it and they really came out really very well.

Ingredients

• All Purpose Flour/Maida - 1.5 cup
• Sugar - 3/4th cup (can be adjusted according to taste)
• Salted butter - 1/2 cup (room temperature)
• Baking powder - 1/2 tsp
• Baking soda - 2 pinch
• Dates - 6 to 8
• Cashews - few (optional)
• Warm water or Milk - 2 to 3 tsp (optional)

Method

• In a big bowl, mix everything, expect warm water.
• If you could make a dough with these ingredients, then no need to add water or milk. Else add water or milk, little by little and make a dough.

• Then make small balls using the dough and keep it in the tray giving gap.
• Preheat the oven to 180 C and bake it for 15 to 20 min.

• When the cookies becomes, little brown colour, remove from oven and let it cool down for 5 min and transfer it to air tight container to last for 4 to 5 days.

Note:

1.Since i used salted butter itself, i didnt add salt. If unsalted butter is used, add a small amount of salt.

2. Powdered sugar can also be used 

This goes to the following events,

Dish Name Starts with D - my event

Bake off event by bangalore baker
Any one can cook - by umm mymoonah