I have a Mamol mold from my Filipina grandmother who used to make dozens of these cookies at Christmas time. she made hers with a half a date in the middle. Apparently the tradition migrated from the middle east to the southern islands of the Phillipines where my family is from. We had the mold for years but no recipe until we stumbled upon a basket of the molds in a middle eastern market one day. Eureka!

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