Greek honey Christmas cookies
Greek honey Christmas cookies

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Melomakarona (μελομακάρονα) are traditional Greek Christmas cookies, that are served during Christmas time throughout Greece. The word "melomakarona" is a combination of the two words "meli", which means honey and "makarona". "Makarona" comes from the ancient word "makaria" and means blessed. These Greek Honey Cookies or as we call them in Greece Melomakarona, go way back in time. At first, they used to be called "Makaronia" (Ancient Greek word for dead soul pie).

To begin 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 can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Greek honey Christmas cookies:
  1. Make ready Ingredients for the syrup
  2. Get 2 + 3/4 cups of granulated sugar
  3. Prepare 700 ml water
  4. Prepare 1 cup honey
  5. Make ready 4 cloves
  6. Take 3 cinnamon sticks
  7. Get 1 sliced orange
  8. Get Ingredients for the dough
  9. Prepare 1 kg flour for all uses
  10. Make ready 1 cup fine semolina
  11. Make ready 240 ml olive oil
  12. Make ready 280 ml seed oil
  13. Prepare 500 ml orange juice
  14. Make ready 1/3 cup powdered sugar
  15. Take 1 teaspoon baking soda
  16. Make ready 3 teaspoon cinnamon
  17. Get 1 teaspoon cloves
  18. Take 1/3 teaspoon nutmeg
  19. Prepare Grate 2 oranges

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, succulent cookies, juicy and dripping honey all over the place. These amazingly aromatic little cookies are a traditional Greek Christmas treat…called "Melomakarona". Your house will be filled with aromas of orange, honey, cinnamon, and cloves… Each bite is so deliciously Christmassy…it will become an instant personal favorite!

Steps to make Greek honey Christmas cookies:
  1. •••●How to make the syrup●•••••
  2. Place all the ingredients except the honey in a saucepan to boil.
  3. Once they boil, remove from the heat and add the honey, stirring. Finally, let the syrup cool well.
  4. •••●How to make the dough●•••••
  5. 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.
  6. In a second bowl, sift the flour and the semolina.
  7. In the bowl with the liquids add little by little the mixture with the solids.
  8. We shape the melomakarona to the size and shape we want by placing them in a pan with oil paste.
  9. Bake in a preheated oven (180 ° with air) for about 20 minutes until golden brown.
  10. As they come out of the oven as hot as they are, we throw them in the syrup for about 15 seconds.
  11. For serving, sprinkle with honey and walnuts.

These amazingly aromatic little cookies are a traditional Greek Christmas treat…called "Melomakarona". Your house will be filled with aromas of orange, honey, cinnamon, and cloves… Each bite is so deliciously Christmassy…it will become an instant personal favorite! Melomakarona are one of the most beloved Greek desserts. Families traditionally serve these honey walnut cookies at Christmastime. It's a festive cookie—boasting spices like cinnamon and cloves—tender and crumbly, and moist from its final swim in a spiced honey syrup.

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