The smell of freshly baked maamoul spreading throughout the place is an Eid ritual. This is how I make them for every Eid.

Dough ingredients:
0.5 kg coarse semolina
0.5 kg fine semolina
2 tbs granulated sugar
¼ teaspoon mahlab powder
½ cup gee
250g unsalted butter
¼ cup orange blossom water
¼ cup rose water
1 tsp instant yeast
¼ cup warm water


Fillings ingredients:
Dates Mamoul:
0.5 kg dates paste
1 tbs vegetable oil

Pistachios Mamoul or
walnuts Mamoul:
150g crushed pistachios/ or
crushed walnuts
4 tbs powder sugar
2 tbs orange blossom water
1 tsp cinnamon powder (for walnuts).