Prep: 20 minutes; Cook: 15 minutes;  Total:  35 minutes
Servings: 25-30

Cooking Filling
2 cups walnuts, crushed
4 Tablespoons sugar
1 teaspoon orange blossom water (Mazaher)

Cookie Dough
2 cups farina, sifted
1 stick margarine, melted
1 cup rendered butter, melted
2 Tablespoons orange blossom water (Mazaher)
1 Tablespoon rose water (Maward)
3 cups all-purpose flour (or may need more)
2 teaspoons vanilla
3 eggs
3 teaspoons baking powder
¾ cups sugar

1. The Maamoul cookie mold, rose water, farina, and orange blossom water can be purchased in a Middle Eastern grocery store.
2. Preheat oven to 325 degrees F.  
3. Combine walnuts, sugar, and rose water in a small bowl.  Mix well.  Set cookie filling aside.
4. Combine farina, margarine, and butter in a medium bowl.  Mix well.  Let cookie dough stand at room temperature for about 10 minutes. 
5. Add rose water, orange blossom water, flour, vanilla, eggs, baking powder, sugar to cookie dough bowl.  Stir well.
6. Form a 1 to 2 inch ball depending on the size of your cookie mold.  Slightly flatten the ball and then press it into the bottom of the mold and up the sides. 
7. Fill with 1 to 2 Tablespoons cookie filling, depending on the size of your cookie mold.
8. Form a 1 inch ball and slightly flatten it.  Place it on top of the filling in the mold and flatten it out to form the bottom, sealing it.  
9. To remove the cookie from the mold, hold the handle and tap it out onto a flat surface.  Place cookie on baking sheet 2 inches apart in rows.
10. Bake in a conventional oven at 325 degrees F for 15 minutes or until golden.
11. Let cookies cool.  Option:  Coat in bowl of powdered sugar by rolling cookie around until coated.
12. Serve with your favorite Turkish coffee or hot tea.