
Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, greek honey christmas cookies. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Making these sweet little Greek honey cookies always makes me realize that it's Christmas time! Melomakarona are one of the most popular treats throughout Greece during the Christmas Holidays and their intense homely smell makes every house smell like Christmas. Gooey, sticky traditional melomakarona or Greek Christmas honey cookies with delicious festive flavours. There's no way you'll be able to eat just one!
Greek honey Christmas cookies is one of the most favored of recent trending meals on earth. It is appreciated by millions every day. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Greek honey Christmas cookies is something which I’ve loved my entire life.
To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have greek honey christmas cookies using 19 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Greek honey Christmas cookies:
- Make ready Ingredients for the syrup
- Make ready + 3/4 cups of granulated sugar
- Get water
- Prepare honey
- Prepare cloves
- Prepare cinnamon sticks
- Get sliced orange
- Make ready Ingredients for the dough
- Get flour for all uses
- Take fine semolina
- Get olive oil
- Take seed oil
- Prepare orange juice
- Take powdered sugar
- Make ready baking soda
- Take cinnamon
- Make ready cloves
- Take nutmeg
- Make ready Grate 2 oranges
Melomakarona, the most popular Greek Christmas Cookie! Get the authentic recipe for this juicy, decadent and delicious Greek Christmas honey cookie. While the white pretty kourabiedes are more of a fancy type of cookie, melomakarona (pronounced melomakárona) are the dark, decadent. These are soft cookies dipped in a honey syrup and covered with chopped walnuts.
Instructions to make Greek honey Christmas cookies:
- •••●How to make the syrup●•••••
- Place all the ingredients except the honey in a saucepan to boil.
- Once they boil, remove from the heat and add the honey, stirring. Finally, let the syrup cool well.
- •••●How to make the dough●•••••
- Put in a bowl the olive oil, the seed oil, the orange juice, the icing sugar, the baking soda, the cinnamon, the clove, the nutmeg and the zest. - Mix them with a whisk or in the mixer on medium speed.
- In a second bowl, sift the flour and the semolina.
- In the bowl with the liquids add little by little the mixture with the solids.
- We shape the melomakarona to the size and shape we want by placing them in a pan with oil paste.
- Bake in a preheated oven (180 ° with air) for about 20 minutes until golden brown.
- As they come out of the oven as hot as they are, we throw them in the syrup for about 15 seconds.
- For serving, sprinkle with honey and walnuts.
While the white pretty kourabiedes are more of a fancy type of cookie, melomakarona (pronounced melomakárona) are the dark, decadent. These are soft cookies dipped in a honey syrup and covered with chopped walnuts. This is another of the few recipes my grandmother handed down to my mom and then my mom to me. I'm so grateful to have and remember them every time I bake these cookies. Moist Christmas honey cookies, tasting like cake with so many tasty layers and flavor complexity that arises from different spices, orange and Greek!
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