Date maamoul with peanut butter

Instructions

1. 1- To prepare the dough, in a bowl mix both types of semolina with sugar, mahleb, mastic, rose water and orange blossom water.
   2- Add the butter and knead using your hands until the mixture is crumbly. Cover and leave aside overnight to rest.
   3- Add the yeast and knead the dough with rose water until dough is firm.
   4- To prepare the filling: in a bowl, mix the date paste with butter and chunky peanut butter. Roll the mixture into small-sized balls.
   5- Shape the dough into walnut-sized balls. Put a ball in the palm of your hand and make a hole into it, using your thumb. Fill the hole with a date mixture ball. Seal the dough and put it in the maamoul mold.
   6- Repeat the same steps with the remaining dough balls then place the cookies on a non-stick baking tray.
   7- Bake the maamoul cookies in a preheated 200°C oven for 20 minutes, making sure to shake the tray from time to time.