Christmas honey cookies

Name: Christmas honey cookies
Yield: Makes 20
Cuisine: Greek
Ingredients: 225 g/8 oz/1 cup clear honey; 75 g/3 oz/scant ½ cup caster/superfine sugar; 115 g/4 oz/generous ½ cup caster/superfine sugar; 60 ml/4 tbsp brandy; 7.5 ml/1½ tsp ground cinnamon; grated rind and juice of 1 large orange; 2.5 ml/½ tsp bicarbonate of soda/baking soda; 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; 150 ml/¼ pint/⅔ cup water; 150 ml/¼ pint/⅔ cup extra virgin olive oil

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
Vegetarian
Mediterranean
Winter
Cookies

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