Melomakarona - Christmas Honey Cookies
Melomakarona are traditional Greek Christmas honey cookies topped with crushed walnuts. Soft, delicate, and bursting with festive flavour, these cookies taste like Christmas in every bite! Try my yiayia’s authentic recipe below.
Ingredients
1 cup sugar
2 cups vegetable oil
1 cup orange juice
Zest of 1 orange
6 cups plain flour
1 1/2 tsp mix spice
1 1/2 tsp baking powder
For the Syrup:
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup water
1 cup honey
Crushed walnuts
60-75 mins to preapre and bake | Makes about 35 large or 50 small Melomakarouna
Method
Whisk the sugar and oil until combined, then mix in all the remaining ingredients for the Melomakarouna listed above in a bowl.
Taking about a 1/2 tbsp - tbsp of the mixture, roll to form a ball and place on a prelined baking tray. Repeat until all the mixture is finished.
Bake at 160 degrees Celsius fan for 25-30 minutes or until lightly golden.
For the syrup, add sugar, water and honey to a saucepan and bring to a boil. Set aside and leave to cool and solidify.
Once the cookies are baked, place on a cooling rack to cool down for 10 minutes. Then dip each one into the honey syrup.
Top with crushed walnuts and store in an airtight container (stays fresh up to a week this way).
