Ma’moul Cookies are served during celebrations in the Middle East. This recipe comes to us from Soha Yassine. Soha is the youth coordinator at the Islamic Center of Southern California. This Saturday ...

Experts debate the origin of the date- or nut-filled pastry, but Middle Eastern believers love the taste and the Good Friday symbolism in its shapes. The Middle East’s favorite sweet symbolizes Good ...

Owner of Helwayat Al-Salam, Mitri Hanna Moussa. Mitri's family has been making maamoul for decades – even before they had an oven to bake them in. Sawsan Abu Farha, a Palentinian-Jordanian food ...

Maamouls are classic Middle Eastern cookies that have a festive appeal even before you take a bite. Much of the exoticness comes from their construction. Delicate pastries are stuffed with rich ...

Be it Easter or Eid, holidays in the Levantine region of the Middle East are incomplete without a shortbread cookie called maamoul. Stuffed with date paste or chopped walnuts or pistachios, and dusted ...