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These Greek Christmas honey cookies (melomakarona) are super quick to bake, so much fun to make and highly Making these sweet little Greek honey cookies always makes me realize that it's Christmas time! Melomakarona are one of the most popular treats. A melomakarona recipe perfect for the holiday season.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have greek christmas cookies (melomakarona) using 16 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Greek Christmas Cookies (Melomakarona):
- Make ready 1 kilo All Purpose Flour
- Prepare 1/2 cup Semolina
- Take 100 grams Sugar
- Take 1/2 liter Olive Oil or Vegetable Oil
- Take 200 ml fresh Orange Juice
- Get 1 teaspoon Cinnamon
- Take 2 teaspoons Baking Powder
- Take 1/2 teaspoon soda
- Prepare 1/2 teaspoon Nutmeg (Optional)
- Take 1/4 teaspoon grated Clove
- Make ready 2 grated Orange Peels
- Prepare Syrup:
- Prepare 500 grams Sugar
- Take 500 ml Water
- Make ready 200 grams Honey
- Prepare 250 grams Walnuts chopped
Melomakarona, the most popular Greek Christmas Cookie! While the white pretty kourabiedes are more of a fancy type of cookie, melomakarona (pronounced melomakárona) are the dark, decadent, succulent cookies, juicy and dripping honey all over the place. Here's our great melomakarona recipe to bake the best Greek Christmas cookies of your life. Shape the cookies and place in a pan.
Instructions to make Greek Christmas Cookies (Melomakarona):
- A) In a large bowl add all the ingredients except for the flour. Once all is combined add in the flour a little at a time and knead all the ingredients until it has become one mass.
- B) Take a small piece of dough at a time and start to knead in your hands and shaping it in the form of an egg. Place each one Melomakarano into a large baking pan and bake for 10 minutes at 180 degrees for 30 minutes or until golden brown.
- C) In a large sauce pan add in the ingredients for the syrup and boil for about 15 minutes and until thickened.
- D) When the cookies have baked pour the hot syrup over them and top with the chopped Walnuts.
- I wanted to thank my Aunt Soula in Greece, and my mom for treating us with their delicious Christmas Cookies. 🙂 Euxaristo poli Theia Soula…na ste kala kai Kales Giortes. - - Kali Orexi!!! - - Kala Xristougenna kai Kales Giortes everyone!! - - With the recipe I am wishing everyone A very Merry Xmas, Happy Holidays to all!!! 🙂
These amazingly aromatic little cakes are a traditional Greek Christmas sweet…called "Melomakarona". Try to keep them as similar as possible. They are dipped in syrup and sprinkled with walnuts before enjoying them! Christmas is nearly there and in Greece this means we buy, eat, treat or make melomakarona. With this recipe you can bake your Greek traditional Christmas Cookies, while learning Greek.
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