Christmas honey cookies

Name: Christmas honey cookies
Yield: Makes 20
Cuisine: Greek
Ingredients: 150 ml/¼ pint/⅔ cup water; 115 g/4 oz/generous ½ cup caster/superfine sugar; 115 g/4 oz/1 cup shelled walnuts, chopped; 400 g/14 oz/3½ cups self-raising/self-rising flour sifted with a pinch of salt; 225 g/8 oz/1 cup clear honey; 7.5 ml/1½ tsp ground cinnamon; 60 ml/4 tbsp brandy; 150 ml/¼ pint/⅔ cup extra virgin olive oil; grated rind and juice of 1 large orange; 75 g/3 oz/scant ½ cup caster/superfine sugar; 2.5 ml/½ tsp bicarbonate of soda/baking soda

Preparation info

Makes
20

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Food & Cooking of Greece

By Rena Salaman

Published 2023

About

Delicious, honey-coated melomakarona are a special treat during the Christmas period. They are easy to make and taste simply marvellous, especially if you use a really well-flavoured honey; it’s worth buying the very best you can. Fresh walnuts are also essential.

Ingredients

2.5 ml/½ tsp bicarbonate of soda/baking soda
grated rind and juice of 1 lar

Europe
Greece
Cookies
Vegetarian
Winter
Mediterranean

Method

Mix together the bicarbonate of soda and orange juice. Beat the oil and sugar with an electric mixer until blended. Beat in the brandy and 2.5 ml/½ tsp of the cinnamon, then add and beat in the orange ju