Date Balls

These must be one of my all time favourites. I love the fruit and when they are turned into these little sweet crunchy balls I love them even more! Here in Israel it is never difficult to get them, they are available all year round in what looks like a vacuum packed loaf of dates... the one item I got pulled aside for when leaving Israel one year as I suppose through an x-ray machine it looked like drugs. Really? Dates!

Ingredients:
250g butter
1 cup (250ml) sugar
2 packets pitted dates
1 egg
1 packet marie biscuits
coconut

Melt the butter then add the sugar and melt
Add broken dates to pot, switch plate to low and keep stirring until dates have broken up
Allow to cool
Add beaten egg
Add crushed maries and cool
Roll into balls and then coconut

Put them into the fridge to cool, or even store them there as they are a lot better cold.

PS enjoy them with a cup of five roses tea : )