Ingredients:

• 225 g – plain flour
• 125 g – Butter
• 90 g – rolled oats
• 175g – Brown sugar
• 75g – dates, chopped
• 1 -egg yolk
• 1 tsp -vanilla essence
• 1/2 tsp -bicarbonate of soda
• 1 – mashed Banana
• 1 tsp – finely grated Lemon rind
• For the topping: 4 – seedless Dates chopped
• 60 g – rolled oats

Method:

1. Preheat the oven to 180 degree Celsius.
2. Grease and line a baking tray with baking paper.
3. Beat butter, rind, essence, egg yolk and sugar with an electric mixer or using a wooden spatula until it gets properly mixed.
4. Stir in mashed banana, then sift the flour and soda, add oats dates and mix them together.
5. The mixture will be quite sticky.
6. Roll level teaspoon of the mixture into a ball.
7. Roll each ball in the oats, flatten it slightly, place it on an oven tray leaving 5 cm gap between each cookie.
8. Press a piece of chopped dates on top of each cookie.
9. Bake it in the preheated oven for 15 minutes.
10. Cool it on a tray.
11. The cookies can be stored in a air tight container for up to 3 weeks.
12. Recipe Courtesy: Taste of Pearl City

Recipe courtesy of Ayeesha Riaz