Traditional Christmas Honey Cookies with Walnuts – Melomakarona
Traditional Christmas Honey Cookies with Walnuts – Melomakarona

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The ingredients needed to make Traditional Christmas Honey Cookies with Walnuts – Melomakarona:
  1. Make ready 280 ml extra virgin olive oil
  2. Get 140 ml melted butter
  3. Get 140 ml fresh orange juice
  4. Get 1 large egg
  5. Prepare 2 tbsp granulated sugar
  6. Make ready 1 tbsp ground cinnamon
  7. Take 1 tsp ground clove
  8. Take 700 g all purpose flour
  9. Take 1 tsp baking soda
  10. Get 200 g finely chopped walnuts
  11. Get 420 g pure honey
  12. Take 130 g sugar
  13. Prepare 300 ml water
  14. Get peel of an orange
  15. Prepare 1 cinnamon stick

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). They were served, during medieval times in a form of a dry piece of the pie (without syrup and honey) at a dinner that followed a funeral.

Instructions to make Traditional Christmas Honey Cookies with Walnuts – Melomakarona:
  1. In a large bowl, mix olive oil, melted butter and orange juice with a whisk. Add the egg and mix well.
  2. In a separate bowl, whisk about ⅓ of the flour, cinnamon, clove, baking soda & sugar. Add this flour mixture to the bowl with the liquids and whisk well.
  3. Add ⅓ of the remaining flour and start mixing with your hand. It’s important to feel when to stop adding flour.
  4. Continue adding flour gradually and knead gently. When the dough is soft but not sticky, it means it’s ready. Stop adding flour.
  5. Cover with plastic wrap and allow to rest for 30 min.
  6. Shape the dough into small balls, about 25g each (or the size of a walnut). Give each ball a cylindrical shape and make a pit in the center. Put ½ tsp of walnuts and pinch to seal it.
  7. Arrange them on a paper lined baking tray, seam side down. Prick them with a fork. This will help them absorb the syrup easily.
  8. Bake in a preheated oven, at 200⁰C / 400⁰F for 23 to 25 min. Let them cool completely before putting them in the syrup.
  9. Put water, sugar & honey in a medium pot, over medium heat. Stir and add the orange peel and the cinnamon stick.
  10. Let it come to a boil and remove the foam with a slotted spoon.
  11. After 4 min remove the peel and the cinnamon stick. Lower the heat.
  12. Put some cookies in the syrup, curved side down. Let them simmer for exactly 2 minutes!
  13. Flip and let them simmer for another 2 min.
  14. Take them out of the syrup with the slotted spoon and transfer on a paper lined baking tray.
  15. Sprinkle with walnuts while they’re still wet from the syrup.
  16. Repeat the process for the rest of the cookies.
  17. Let them cool completely before serving.

Melomakarona are traditional Greek Cookies drenched in a honey syrup. These cookies are made every Christmas and usually have chopped walnuts in them. 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. The baked cookies are dipped in Sugar Honey Spiced Syrup and finally glazed with Honey and chopped Walnuts. The taste is absolutely mindblowing and scintillating.

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