Hey everyone, it is me again, Dan, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, christmas cookies dipped in honey, aka melomakarona. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Wonderful aromatic, spiced cookies with honey that are like little cakes! honey. walnuts. Watch the video in sign language here. These amazingly aromatic little cookies are a traditional Greek Christmas treat…called "Melomakarona". Melomakarona: Authentic Greek Christmas Honey Cookies.
Christmas cookies dipped in honey, aka melomakarona is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. They are fine and they look wonderful. Christmas cookies dipped in honey, aka melomakarona is something which I have loved my entire life.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have christmas cookies dipped in honey, aka melomakarona using 21 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Christmas cookies dipped in honey, aka melomakarona:
- Take For the syrup
- Prepare 750 gr white sugar
- Take 450 gr tap water
- Prepare 250 gr honey (I use greek aromatic thyme honey)
- Get 1 tbs corn starch syrup
- Take 1 orange sliced in thin slices
- Make ready 1 cinnamon stic
- Prepare 2-3 clove buds
- Take For the dough
- Take 770 gr all purpose flour
- Take 200 gr semolina
- Make ready 335 gr oil (either extra virgin olive oil or a mixture of olive oil and sunflower oil in equal parts, if you do not have extra virgin olive oil a combination of the two is suggested)
- Make ready 15 gr bicarbonate ammonia (or equal amount of baking powder)
- Get 140 gr white sugar
- Get 45 gr honey
- Take 240 gr freshly squeezed orange juice
- Get 10 gr ground cinnamon
- Take 5 gr ground clove
- Get 1 orange the zest
- Prepare For decorating
- Get 150 gr Ground walnuts
According to wikipedia, finikia are slightly different, stating the cookie isn't dipped in honey and is instead rolled. 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.
Steps to make Christmas cookies dipped in honey, aka melomakarona:
- We need to prepare the syrup the day before because it needs to be cold. In a pot we add the water, the sugar, the orange cut in thin slices, the corn starch syrup, the cinnamon stick and cloves.
- We bring to the boil without stirring and keep boiling over medium heat for 5 min. We remove the pot from the fire and add the honey. We stir until the honey dissolves and we let it cool down completely.
- The next day we prepare the dough. Preheat the oven over 180oC. Add the flour and semolina in a large mixing bowl create a space in the middle and set aside.
- Add the oil, orange juice and zest, honey, sugar, ground cinnamon and ground clove in a large mixing bowl and stir rapidly until sugar dissolves, it might take 4 min.
- Add the bicarbonate ammonia, or baking powder to the liquids and stir in rapidly, until the liquids change colour (step photo 3).
- Pour the liquids to the flour, semolina mixture in the space that you have created and start incorporating the dry ingredients gently, using your fingertips.
- DO NOT overwork your dough and DO NOT add any more flour. Once the dry ingredients absorb the liquid STOP everything.
- Take a small portion of dough (the size of walnut will do just fine - because they rise will baking) and shape them like little sausages will rolling as little as possible (you can do that with ;only 3 movements). Place on a baking tray (you can line some baking paper, but they do not stick promise, but just to be sure). With a fork make small holes on the surface pressing lightly. Bake to a preheat oven over 180oC for 20-30 min. depending on your oven. After 20 min check if the are ready.
- When ready, as they are hot from the oven put them in the syrup making sure that they are dipped in completely count to ten and take them out. Place them on a strainer so the excess syrup can drip. (Make sure before reusing the baking try to add some more dough that it is completely cool, if you only have one cool it down under the tap and dry thoroughly).
- Place them on a nice platter, sprinkle with the ground walnuts and enjoy. Merry Christmas from Greece.
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. White CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES Recipe - The Ultimate & Comprehensive Guide. These traditional Greek cookies are coated in a spiced honey glaze and topped with sliced almonds for optimal mouth-watering flavor. Melomacarona (Greek Honey-Dipped Cookies). this link is to an external site that may or may not meet accessibility guidelines.
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