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Hello everybody, it is Drew, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, christmas cookies dipped in honey, aka melomakarona. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Put the water, sugar, and cinnamon sticks in a saucepan. Bring to a boil, stirring until sugar is dissolved. Using the paddle attachment, mix oils slowly. Melomakarona is a honey-dipped Christmas cookie topped with crushed walnuts and cinnamon that is extremely popular to have in the home during the holidays.

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

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

1. Prepare For the syrup
2. Get 750 gr white sugar
3. Get 450 gr tap water
4. Take 250 gr honey (I use greek aromatic thyme honey)
5. Get 1 tbs corn starch syrup
6. Make ready 1 orange sliced in thin slices
7. Get 1 cinnamon stic
8. Take 2-3 clove buds
9. Take For the dough
10. Make ready 770 gr all purpose flour
11. Take 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. Take 240 gr freshly squeezed orange juice
17. Make ready 10 gr ground cinnamon
18. Make ready 5 gr ground clove
19. Get 1 orange the zest
20. Get For decorating
21. Prepare 150 gr Ground walnuts

If Christmas was a smell this would be the smell of melomakarona, honey, clove and cinnamon.. Place the cookies on a flat plate. Take the powdered sugar, place it in a sifter and dust the cookies until the tops are completely covered. Remove from the heat and set aside.

Instructions 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.

Take the powdered sugar, place it in a sifter and dust the cookies until the tops are completely covered. Remove from the heat and set aside. Grease two baking sheets with a little butter then line with greaseproof paper. Melt the butter in a large pan with the oil. Can't get enough of the rich, buttery flavor of Greek Christmas cookies?

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