
Hello everybody, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, greek honey christmas cookies 🇬🇷. One of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Greek honey Christmas cookies 🇬🇷 is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Greek honey Christmas cookies 🇬🇷 is something that I have loved my whole life.
Once you try these Greek Christmas honey cookies (melomakarona!) with their gooey centres and delicious Christmas flavours, you'll make them every year! How about making a different kind of Christmas cookie this year? If you visit Greece close to Christmas, you'll eat far too many of these. These Christmas honey cookies are probably the first dessert I've made.
To begin with this particular 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 it.
The ingredients needed to make Greek honey Christmas cookies 🇬🇷:
- Take Ingredients for the syrup
- Make ready 2 + 3/4 cups of granulated sugar
- Take 700 ml water
- Make ready 1 cup honey
- Take 4 cloves
- Prepare 3 cinnamon sticks
- Make ready 1 sliced orange
- Make ready Ingredients for the dough
- Get 1 kg flour for all uses
- Get 1 cup fine semolina
- Take 240 ml olive oil
- Get 280 ml seed oil
- Get 500 ml orange juice
- Get 1/3 cup powdered sugar
- Make ready 1 teaspoon baking soda
- Get 3 teaspoon cinnamon
- Prepare 1 teaspoon cloves
- Make ready 1/3 teaspoon nutmeg
- Prepare Grate 2 oranges
I'm so grateful to have and remember them every time I bake these cookies. Melomakarona are a classic Greek traditional delicacy, filled with flavours of cinnamon, orange and walnut. They are a popular treat throughout the year but especially during Christmas their sweet aroma fills the house with an intensely sweet smell. These Greek Honey Cookies or as we call them in Greece Melomakarona, go way back in time.
Steps 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.
They are a popular treat throughout the year but especially during Christmas their sweet aroma fills the house with an intensely sweet smell. These Greek Honey Cookies or as we call them in Greece Melomakarona, go way back in time. Imagine a bigger, oval-shaped gingerbread cookie, that has been soaked in syrup, then coated with honey and plenty of chopped walnuts (only. Christmas time in Greece is associated with melomakarona cookies, super easy and fast to bake. The main ingredient is honey which is why the cookies taste like baklava.
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