Hello everybody, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, greek almond christmas cookies. One of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Greek Snowflake Cookies -Kourabiedes BY: Greek Cooking Made Easy SUBSCRIBE to my YouTube channel to see all my delicious recipes! https These are Greek celebration cookies-most popular at Christmas, but in some parts of Greece, you also see them at weddings, Easter and other. Everyone's family has their traditional Christmas cookies that they make year after year. In my house, it's always kourabiedes, melomakarona, and koulourakia.
Greek Almond Christmas Cookies is one of the most popular of recent trending meals on earth. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions every day. Greek Almond Christmas Cookies is something which I have loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have greek almond christmas cookies using 8 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Greek Almond Christmas Cookies:
- Get 1 cup Butter room temperature
- Take 1 Egg Yolk
- Make ready 600 grams All Purpose Flouer
- Take 2 powdered Vanilla or 2 teaspoons Vanilla Extract
- Take 180 grams Roasted Almonds or Walnuts chopped…(we prefer Almonds)
- Get 1 teaspoon Baking Powder
- Get 30 grams Cognac
- Prepare 3/4 Sugar Powder & extra for coating
Kourabiethes are delicious buttery cookies with almonds that are covered in confectioners' sugar. They are very popular for weddings and holidays. Kourabiethes: Greek Shortbread Cookies With Almonds. The cookies are crispy and delicious.
Instructions to make Greek Almond Christmas Cookies:
- In a small pan add just a bit of butter and roast the almonds until they become crunchy and brown. Once the almonds are done set them aside.
- In a large bowl beat bowl and powdered sugar until combined.
- Beat in the egg yolk, vanilla.
- Slowly start to add in the flour and cognac and continue to beat.
- Continue by adding the almonds, or walnuts which ever you prefer and combine with hands.
- This becomes a dough mix.
- Coat with the extra Powder Sugar it should cover the cookies as shown in the picture above. - - I have posted a black and white picture of the featured image on Instagram: foodzesty - - Merry Christmas!! - - Kala Xristougenna!!
They are medium sweet, so if you want them sweeter you can add more sugar in the cookie dough or coat them twice with the vanilla sugar. Yes, it's the holiday season once again. These cookies are so important to Greeks during the holidays. I feel like it's the one dessert you could find in most Greek's homes. I don't know if you can get these at your local Greek festival, so they are.
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