Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, chocolate kourabiedes. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
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This is my family's kourabiedes recipe, and my personal favorite. These cookies are full of roasted almonds and flavored with brandy (we always use Metaxa) and vanilla. Chocolate kourabiedes Kourabiedes (traditional Christmas butter cookies) that are different from all the rest, ones that there's not a kid (and not only) around who won't love them.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook chocolate kourabiedes using 11 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Chocolate kourabiedes:
- Prepare 300 g butter
- Prepare 125 g roasted almonds (coarsely cut)
- Make ready 110 g icing sugar
- Make ready 500 g flour
- Take 1/2 tsp baking powder
- Get 160 g chocolate couverture, melted
- Prepare 1/4 cup brandy
- Take For the glaze
- Get chocolate couverture
- Take milk
- Prepare brandy
Set aside or put in the fridge to cool down Kourabiedes (kou-ra-bi-ETH-es) are festive, shortbread textured, Greek butter cookies loaded with almond goodness. Similar to snowballs, these baked greek biscuits are laced with a hint of clove, pure rose water and coated with powdered sugar. Cream butter and gradually add sugar and beat until fluffy. Add egg yolk, brandy and vanilla.
Steps to make Chocolate kourabiedes:
- Beat the butter and the icing sugar in the mixer until they get fluffy.
- Add the almonds and the melted chocolate couverture.
- Sift the flour with the baking powder and then add them into the mixture together with the brandy.
- Set aside the dough to firm in the fridge for 1-2 hours, then roll it out into a sheet of about 1 cm thick and using the cookie cutters that you like το cut it into the desired shapes. (If you don't have cookie cutters, form the dough into the traditional kourabiedes shape or use a glass turned upside down to cut the shapes).
- Bake in a preheated oven for about 15-20 minutes at 170°C.
- When they cool you can brush them with the glaze that you have aldready prepared by mixing melted chocolate couverture with a little bit of milk and brandy or just plain melted chocolate couverture.
- Store in a metal container.
Kourabiedes are Greek cookies, similar to shortbread cookies which are flavoured with vanilla, filled with toasted almonds and when baked they are coated in icing sugar. There are many recipes for kourabiedes but the main ingredient which gives this traditional Greek cookie its taste is the Greek ewe's and goat milk butter. Kourabiedes are the Greek equivalent of a nutty, buttery shortbread and in fact the Mexican cuisine has something very similar but with actual pieces of nut (usually pecans) throughout which they call Wedding cakes. Mexican wedding cakes are also known as Russian Tea cakes. This super easy kourabiedes recipe (kourambiethes) will certainly set you on a festive mood!
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