Recipe of Homemade Christmas cookies dipped in honey, aka melomakarona

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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". Once you try these Greek Christmas honey cookies (melomakarona!) with their gooey centres and delicious If you visit Greece close to Christmas, you'll eat far too many of these delicious Christmas honey cookies.

To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook christmas cookies dipped in honey, aka melomakarona using 21 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Christmas cookies dipped in honey, aka melomakarona:

1. Prepare For the syrup
2. Make ready 750 gr white sugar
3. Make ready 450 gr tap water
4. Make ready 250 gr honey (I use greek aromatic thyme honey)
5. Get 1 tbs corn starch syrup
6. Take 1 orange sliced in thin slices
7. Take 1 cinnamon stic
8. Get 2-3 clove buds
9. Take For the dough
10. Take 770 gr all purpose flour
11. Take 200 gr semolina
12. Get 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)
13. Make ready 15 gr bicarbonate ammonia (or equal amount of baking powder)
14. Get 140 gr white sugar
15. Take 45 gr honey
16. Get 240 gr freshly squeezed orange juice
17. Take 10 gr ground cinnamon
18. Make ready 5 gr ground clove
19. Get 1 orange the zest
20. Get For decorating
21. Take 150 gr Ground walnuts

Melomakarona are one of the most popular treats throughout Greece. White CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES Recipe - The Ultimate & Comprehensive Guide. Recipe by evelynathens. (Alternatively, if you do not have enough rimmed baking sheets to accommodate all the cookies, you can dip them in batches directly into the hot syrup - keeping the syrup at the lowest possible simmer - and allow to soak in the. These are soft cookies dipped in a honey syrup and covered with chopped walnuts.

Steps to make Christmas cookies dipped in honey, aka melomakarona:

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. Add the bicarbonate ammonia, or baking powder to the liquids and stir in rapidly, until the liquids change colour (step photo 3).
6. 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.
7. DO NOT overwork your dough and DO NOT add any more flour. Once the dry ingredients absorb the liquid STOP everything.
8. 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.
9. 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).
10. Place them on a nice platter, sprinkle with the ground walnuts and enjoy. Merry Christmas from Greece.

Recipe by evelynathens. (Alternatively, if you do not have enough rimmed baking sheets to accommodate all the cookies, you can dip them in batches directly into the hot syrup - keeping the syrup at the lowest possible simmer - and allow to soak in the. 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. These Greek honey cookies, melomakarona, have been on my list for a little while and I finally got round to making them this year.

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