Fried date pastries - Gourmet Traveller

Ingredients

• Vegetable oil, for deep-frying
• Honey, for drizzling
• Salt flakes and vanilla ice-cream, to serve
• Pastry
• 250 gm Tipo “00” flour, plus extra for dusting
• 1 tbsp caster sugar
• ½ tsp ground aniseed
• 50 gm cold unsalted butter, chopped
• 1 tbsp sweet marsala
• 1 tbsp orange blossom water
• 1 egg, lightly whisked
• Date and orange filling
• 300 gm pitted dates (see note)
• 1/4 tsp ground cloves
• Finely grated zest of 1 orange