Hellooo,
During the Christmas holiday, Greeks go into a cookie baking mode, but then again so do I. But this year some of my friends have decided to keep it low-key. No baking, cooking, I know this year has been very difficult for everyone, but I still think we should try to do our best to stay in the Christmas Spirit. I went ahead and did some Christmas cookie baking with the help of my brother. So, yesterday he came by to help me out with the preparation and baking part. This is my favorite amongst the Greek cookies, the Greek Walnut Christmas Cookie. (Still suffering from Tendinitis)
It was fun, he actually did most of the work, all I did was shift the flour and keep an eye on the cookies while they were in the oven. So, for this reason, I am not going to write a long post but just posting the recipe below which is really quite simple to make if you follow the instructions and are willing to try a different kind of cookie. A cookie filled with walnuts, orange zest, brandy. and intense taste of allspice drizzled with honey. 🙂 One step that I should emphasize is the syrup. This should be the first step so that it could cool off. We dip when the cookies are straight out of the oven so that it could soak up all those delicious tastes. Sound good? Believe me it is!!
Thanks, John!!! 🙂
MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!!!
KALA XRISTOUGENNA!!
Greek Walnut Christmas Cookies
Ingredients
- ¼ cup Semolina
- 1 ⅔ cups All-Purpose Flour
- ⅓ cup Walnuts crushed and some for topping
- 1 Orange zest
- ¾ cup Fresh Orange Juice
- 2 tsp Cinnamon Powder
- 1 tsp Allspice
- ½ cup Vegetable Oil
- ½ cup Olive OIl
- ½ tsp Baking Soda
- 3 tbsp Brandy
- ¼ tsp Salt
- Ingredients for Syrup
- 3 cups Sugar
- 1 cup Water
- Orange peel
- 1 Cinnamon Stick
- 10 All Spice Cloves whole
- 1 ½ tbsp Butter (optional)
- 1 ½ cup Honey
Instructions
- In a large bowl combine all the dry ingredients. The orange zest should combined in the dry ingredients
- In a medium-size bowl combine vegetable oil, olive oil, and orange juice. (if you plan to use butter melt it before adding into the rest of the ingredients., I made some with and some without using butter)
- Pour wet ingredients into dry ingredients and give it a few turns with your hand. Make either bite-size round-shaped or oval-shaped cookies. Bake in the oven for 40 minutes or until golden brown.
- In a medium-size saucepan add in the ingredients for the syrup except for the honey. Boil for 10 minutes and set aside for 30 minutes. Once the syrup has cooled add in the honey and place in the fridge for 1 hour.
- Take out the syrup and once the cookies are out of the oven, start to dip into the cold syrup. Set aside to cool.
KALI MAS OREXEI!! 🙂
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