Hello everybody, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, christmas cookies dipped in honey, aka melomakarona. One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Melomakarona (μελομακάρονα) are traditional Greek Christmas cookies, that are served during Christmas time throughout Greece. The word "melomakarona" is a combination of the two words "meli", which means honey and "makarona". "Makarona" comes from the ancient word "makaria" and means blessed. The name itself, melomakarona, is a combination of the two words: "meli", which means honey and "makarona," which comes from the ancient word "makaria," meaning blessed. Melomakarona cookies are soft cake-like cookies that are scented with orange and cinnamon, soaked in honey syrup and covered with crushed walnuts.

Christmas cookies dipped in honey, aka melomakarona is one of the most favored of recent trending meals on earth. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. Christmas cookies dipped in honey, aka melomakarona is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook christmas cookies dipped in honey, aka melomakarona using 21 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Christmas cookies dipped in honey, aka melomakarona:

1. Prepare For the syrup
2. Prepare 750 gr white sugar
3. Get 450 gr tap water
4. Get 250 gr honey (I use greek aromatic thyme honey)
5. Get 1 tbs corn starch syrup
6. Prepare 1 orange sliced in thin slices
7. Prepare 1 cinnamon stic
8. Make ready 2-3 clove buds
9. Get For the dough
10. Get 770 gr all purpose flour
11. Get 200 gr semolina
12. Take 335 gr oil (either extra virgin olive oil or a mixture of olive oil and sunflower oil in equal parts, if you do not have extra virgin olive oil a combination of the two is suggested)
13. Make ready 15 gr bicarbonate ammonia (or equal amount of baking powder)
14. Make ready 140 gr white sugar
15. Prepare 45 gr honey
16. Make ready 240 gr freshly squeezed orange juice
17. Prepare 10 gr ground cinnamon
18. Make ready 5 gr ground clove
19. Prepare 1 orange the zest
20. Get For decorating
21. Make ready 150 gr Ground walnuts

At first, they used to be called "Makaronia" (Ancient Greek word for dead soul pie). Semolina is made from wheat durum. Commonly used in making pasta, cakes, cookies, and more. I find by adding semolina to melomakarona makes the cookies melt in your mouth.

Steps to make Christmas cookies dipped in honey, aka melomakarona:

1. We need to prepare the syrup the day before because it needs to be cold. In a pot we add the water, the sugar, the orange cut in thin slices, the corn starch syrup, the cinnamon stick and cloves.
2. We bring to the boil without stirring and keep boiling over medium heat for 5 min. We remove the pot from the fire and add the honey. We stir until the honey dissolves and we let it cool down completely.
3. The next day we prepare the dough. Preheat the oven over 180oC. Add the flour and semolina in a large mixing bowl create a space in the middle and set aside.
4. Add the oil, orange juice and zest, honey, sugar, ground cinnamon and ground clove in a large mixing bowl and stir rapidly until sugar dissolves, it might take 4 min.
5. Add the bicarbonate ammonia, or baking powder to the liquids and stir in rapidly, until the liquids change colour (step photo 3).
6. Pour the liquids to the flour, semolina mixture in the space that you have created and start incorporating the dry ingredients gently, using your fingertips.
7. DO NOT overwork your dough and DO NOT add any more flour. Once the dry ingredients absorb the liquid STOP everything.
8. Take a small portion of dough (the size of walnut will do just fine - because they rise will baking) and shape them like little sausages will rolling as little as possible (you can do that with ;only 3 movements). Place on a baking tray (you can line some baking paper, but they do not stick promise, but just to be sure). With a fork make small holes on the surface pressing lightly. Bake to a preheat oven over 180oC for 20-30 min. depending on your oven. After 20 min check if the are ready.
9. When ready, as they are hot from the oven put them in the syrup making sure that they are dipped in completely count to ten and take them out. Place them on a strainer so the excess syrup can drip. (Make sure before reusing the baking try to add some more dough that it is completely cool, if you only have one cool it down under the tap and dry thoroughly).
10. Place them on a nice platter, sprinkle with the ground walnuts and enjoy. Merry Christmas from Greece.

Commonly used in making pasta, cakes, cookies, and more. I find by adding semolina to melomakarona makes the cookies melt in your mouth. This is my go-to melomakarona recipe, especially during the holidays. Melomakarona~ Greek Honey Dipped Christmas Cookies. Ingredients: Melomakarona (μελομακάρονα) are Greek traditional Christmas cookies.

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