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Melomakarona - Honey-Drenched Spice Cookies

One of a kind recipe! These cookies are unforgettable with their sweet-honey smell.
Course Cookies
Cuisine Greek
Keyword cookies, Greek, holidays, honeycookie, Melomakarona
Author Mary Papoulias-Platis

Ingredients

Dough

  • 1 1/2 boxes cake flour or all-purpose flour,

    Note: 1 box of cake flour = 32.ozs., 2lbs., 907g. If using all -purpose 3-31/2 lbs. flour.

  • 1/2 pound sweet butter, softened
  • 2 cups vegetable or olive oil
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 1 egg
  • 1 small glass of whiskey or brandy
  • 1 teaspoon cinnamon
  • 1 teaspoon allspice
  • 1 teaspoon ground cloves
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1 cup fresh orange juice

Honey Syrup

  • 2 cups honey
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 1 cup water
  • 1-2 cinnamon sticks
  • peel of 1/2 of orange
  • 1 cup finely chopped walnuts, topping

Instructions

Cookie Batter

  1. Beat softened butter in mixer bowl for twenty minutes until pale in color.
  2. Beat in oil, sugar, egg, whiskey or brandy and spices. Remove from mixer and place in a large bowl.
  3. Over the large bowl of butter mixture, mix orange juice with the baking powder and baking soda until it turns foamy. Add to mixture and stir until combined.
  4. Add flour slowly by hand until dough is slightly sticky and can be formed into a cookie. Add enough flour until the dough releases from the side of the bowl. Do not over mix or add too much flour.
  5. Place about one 1-2 tablespoons of dough in your palm and form cookie into a round or oval cookie by hand.
  6. Cookies will rise so make them small. Flattened with fingers slightly.
  7. Bake in a 350 degree oven for 25-30 minutes.
  8. At room temperature dip the cookies in the warm syrup for a few minutes, turning once or twice.
  9. Sprinkle with walnuts.

Recipe Notes

Makes about 95 cookies. (can be halved)
Note: Cookies can be frozen at this time before baking, or kept in the refrigerated for weeks.