Greek Cookie Recipe Melomakarona

Greek Cookie Recipe: Melomakarona

No Christmas in Greece without Melomakarona! Here follows an easy Greek cookie recipe - you can't fail this recipe for Melomakarona, it's very easy:

250 gram butter or margarine

One cup sunflower oil

One cup sugar

One cup orange juice

One cup cognac

The peel of one orange

One teaspoon clove

Two teaspoons baking powder

Enough flour to make a dough that is very soft

Syrup:

Two cups of sugar

Two cups of honey

Two cups of water

The juice of half a lemon

Garniture:

Finely chopped walnuts mixed with clove

Whip butter, sugar and oil. Add juice, cognac and spices. Mix the baking flour with some of the flour, and add enough flour for a dough that is quite loose. Shape small cookies, the size and shape of a thumb, and cook in oven on 200 degrees C until light brown. Let the cookies cool. Mix the ingredients for the syrup and pour over the cookies. Decorate with the chopped walnuts/clove mixture.

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