MELOMAKARONA (Greek honey spiced cookies)
Melomakarona are Greek honey spiced cookies usually baked for Christmas. They're made with oil and have no eggs, no milk, and no butter. They're covered in walnuts or chocolate!
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“Melomakarona” is a Greek word which in a free translation you could say it means “honey macaroons”. However, according to some sources the name comes from the ancient Greek work “makaria” which was a piece of bread offered in certain ceremonies. When you add “meli” (the Greek word for honey) over “makaria”, then you get a melomakarono!
These Greek Christmas cookies are spiced with orange zest, cinnamon and ground cloves and once they’re baked, they get soaked in a honey-based syrup. Traditionally, they’re covered in crashed walnuts but today you can also find them covered in chocolate, so I decided to make them both ways to keep everyone happy.
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Melomakarona - Greek Christmas honey cookies
Melomakarona recipe (Greek Christmas honey cookies)
Recipe for 50-60 cookies
Ingredients for syrup:
3 cups of water
1 cup sugar (white or brown)
1 cup honey
1 teaspoon cinnamon
2-5 cloves
Directions:
- Put all the ingredients into the pan
- Cook on low heat
- Bring to a boil for 5 minutes
- Skim off the foam that forms on the top
- Leave to cool completely
Ingredients for dough:
2 cups olive oil (or corn oil)
1 cup sugar
1 cup orange juice
1 cup semolina
1 kilo plain flour (approximately)
1,5 teaspoons of baking soda
Orange peel from 2 medium oranges
Crushed walnuts for decoration
Directions:
- Put the oil in a mixing bowl and beat for 2 minutes
- Add the sugar and beat for another 2 minutes
- Add all the ingredients one after the other apart from flour and mix for another 2 minutes
- Sift about half of the flour and beat for a minute
- Add the remaining flour and use your hands to do the mixing
- The dough should be firm
- Roll the dough into small cylinders
- Preheat the oven and Bake at 200°C for 30 to 35 minutes.
- Remove the cookies from the oven and dip then into the cold syrup straight away for a few seconds (5 to 10 seconds per side depending how soft, moist you like them)
- Remove from the syrup and sprinkle the crushed walnut
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Each Greek household makes Melomakarona cookies a little differently. Some like it with a lot of syrup and to be soft, others like it crispy with a light syrup coating.
This is my family's recipe and we like our Melomakarona to be crispy on the outside with a light coat of honey syrup. If you follow my instructions on the video you will also get to enjoy your crispy cookies with a light coating of honey syrup!
The honey syrup is not there just for flavor, it also preserves the cookies which can be kept/stored at room temperature for up to 2 weeks.
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Melomakarona are honey-glazed Greek cookies that are served traditionally at Christmas. They are usually made with olive oil, orange juice, cinnamon and various other spices, flour and/or semolina, soaked in honey syrup, and topped with crushed walnuts. Melomakarona, which are also called «Foinikia» in some regions of Greece, are one of the most iconic and loved Christmas treats of Greek households because they are delicious and very easy to make!
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✔ Ingredients:
For the Melomakarona cookies
◾ 1 kg Flour, all-purpose
◾ 415g Olive oil (2 cups, ¾ each cup)
◾ 230g Crystal Sugar (¾ cup)
◾ 240g Fresh orange juice (¾ cup, about 5 oranges)
◾ 40g Baking powder
◾ Zest from 2 oranges
◾ 14g Baking Soda (1 tsp)
◾ 1g Ground Cloves (1/4 tsp)
◾ 7g powdered cinnamon (1 tsp)
◾ 23g Ouzo or Raki (3 Tbsp, Greek alcoholic beverage)
◾ 2 capsules of vanillin or 2 tsp vanilla extract
◾ 150g walnuts/pecans crushed, to sprinkle on top.
◾ Ηoney syrup (recipe below), to soak them in.
For the Honey Syrup
◾ 2 and ¾ cups of sugar
◾ 4 Tbsp honey
◾ 2 cups of water
◾ Lemon juice from 1 lemon
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Melomakarona recipe timecodes:
0:00 - Melomakarona - Greek honey cookies
0:28 - How to make the cookie dough
2:31 - How to form the cookies
3:23 - How to decorate the cookies
4:21 - How to bake the cookies
4:40 - How to make the honey syrup
5:30 - How to soak them in the honey
6:21 - How to line them in layers for serving
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Melomakarona - Greek Christmas Honey Cookies | Τραγανά κ Μελωμένα Μελομακάρονα
This recipe for melomakarona, the Greek honey cookies, is what you need for this Christmas. Crunchy on the outside and soft and syrupy in the middle, those cookies melt in your mouth. They are full of aromas from cinnamon and clove, sweet from the honey and nutty from the chopped walnuts on top. The recipe yields a big batch to please a crowd and why not give some as a Christmas gift to family and friends. Enjoy!
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Dough Ingredients
➡️ 4 cups plain flour
➡️ 1/2 cup fine semolina flour
➡️ 1/2 cup sugar
➡️ 1 1/2 cups olive oil
➡️ 1/2 cup orange juice
➡️ 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract
➡️ 1 tablespoon cognac or brandy
➡️ 1 teaspoon of baking powder
➡️ 1 teaspoon of baking soda
➡️ 1/2 tablespoon cinnamon
➡️ 1/2 teaspoon ground cloves
Syrup Ingredients
➡️ 2 cups sugar
➡️ 2 cups water
➡️ 1 cup honey
➡️ half an orange
➡️ 1 cinnamon stick
➡️ 2-3 whole cloves
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Christmas Greek Honey Cookies, Melomakarona recipe
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. Gradual changes in the recipe and the addition of dipping them in honey led to melomakarona which etymologically is derived from the Greek word for honey meli and makaria
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