Christmas cookies dipped in honey, aka melomakarona
Christmas cookies dipped in honey, aka melomakarona

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Greek Honey Cookies The Origin Of The Greek Honey Cookies 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). Greek traditional Christmas cookies with crunchy-soft texture dipped in honey and topped with walnuts and cloves!!! Still, these traditional goodies are thought to be derived from the ancient and medieval "makaria", which were eaten during funerals.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must 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 it.

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

Melomakarona are traditional Greek Cookies drenched in a honey syrup. This cookie recipe is traditionally made every Christmas in Greek homes. From the walnut and honey flavourings which are pretty much on the front stage of Greek desserts (think baklava) to the use of olive oil instead of butter. Melomakarona is a honey-dipped Christmas cookie topped with crushed walnuts and cinnamon that is extremely popular to have in the home during the holidays.

Instructions 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.

From the walnut and honey flavourings which are pretty much on the front stage of Greek desserts (think baklava) to the use of olive oil instead of butter. Melomakarona is a honey-dipped Christmas cookie topped with crushed walnuts and cinnamon that is extremely popular to have in the home during the holidays. The melomakarona recipe is an oil-based one that still somehow yields a fluffy and almost cake-like cookie with intense flavors. Boil all of the ingredients for the syrup, apart from the honey, until the sugar melts. Add the honey and mix till combined.

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