ma’amoul
Syria · Middle East and North Africa
- Short description
- Ma’amoul are molded filled cookies, usually shaped around date paste, walnuts, or pistachios.
- Ingredients
- Semolina dough with butter or ghee, dates, walnuts or pistachios, sugar, blossom water, and sometimes mahlab.
- Cultural note
- These cookies are strongly tied to holiday trays, where different molds signal different fillings.
- Common misconception
- They are usually filled before baking; the patterned surface is pressed from a mold, not piped afterward.
image credit
Ma'amoul Filled with Dates and Nuts.jpg
- creator:
- روتانا
- source:
- Wikimedia Commons
- license:
- CC BY 4.0
- modified:
- Resized for Gochizu.
audio credit
- voice:
- Zinou2go
- source:
- Wikimedia Commons / Lingua Libre
- license:
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- modified:
- Original audio converted to MP3 for Gochizu.