Greek Christmas Filled Cookies

Cookies/Finikia/Melomakarona, a recipe from the East full of aromas and memories of lost homelands! Stuffed, traditional, Lenten and syrupy cookies.
The syruping is done in a saucepan and while the syrup is kept warm on a very low heat.
We prepare Finikia, which are consumed during the Lenten days before Christmas but also as a sweet delicacy for Christmas and New Year's Day along with the other Christmas desserts of the Twelve Days, such as Melomakarona, Kourabiedes, hills of fried honeyed Diples fragrant and fluffy Vasilopites! And even Isli, Christmas Bread, Kouloures, New Year's Loukoumades, Pancakes and other local sweets, festive, symbolic and ritual, that are prepared in every corner of Greece.
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Merry Christmas 2024! 🎄
Happy Holidays!

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time: 1h:30′

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Greek Easter Cookies

Easter Cookies/ Biscuits -and not only Easter- with a different approach but with all the aromas of Greek Easter, such as Chios Mastic, Mahlepi, Kakoule (Cardamom) and the aroma of orange.
Light, tasty, soft, digestible and special. They are made very easily with their wonderfully velvety dough, which is given by the addition of pure yogurt and the light corn oil. They are relatively sweet with a little sugar added because our opinion is that this is how a cookie should be in order for a savory platter of cheeses and cold cuts to accompany our drink.

Happy Easter!

work: 1h:20′

time: 2h:30′

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Parmesan Cookies

Savory miniature cookies with lacy edges and unique taste. The savory Parmesan cookies, a small "luxury" of taste, are perfect as an appetizer or a wonderful snack / accompaniment for our favorite drink, whatever it is. They are small, they are addictive, they are a bite, they are made quickly and easily, with minimal ingredients and within 20 minutes we enjoy them. Of the few recipes, that something is so rich in taste and with so few ingredients.
I promise you, once you make them once you will want to repeat them soon…
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work: 10′

time: 20′

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Yogurt Cookies

Yogurt Biscuits are delicious little butterless sweets, with vanilla pudding mix and of course Greek yogurt. They are easy to make and you can enjoy them for breakfast or as a snack. They are ideal for milk, coffee or a cup of good aromatic tea because they are soft, tender, velvety - almost infantile - and very tasty, with a seductive vanilla & lemon aroma.
Their preparation is very simple: we only need a bowl and a spoon and in a few minutes the dough will be ready to be baked… another reason to prepare it right away!
If you're looking for other biscuit recipes or other breakfast cakes, don't miss the cookie options and easy sweets of Kitchen Stories!
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work: 10′

time: 30′

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Hazelnut Coconut Cookies

These chewing, wholesome coconut & hazelnut cookies are made with only good ingredients to give us a full tasty biscuit bite. They are particularly distinguished from roasted & crushed hazelnuts, but also from dried coconut, with an exotic aftertaste to our palate. Their delicate taste combines wonderfully with a glass of milk for the kids but also with breakfast or afternoon coffee for us.
Keep them in a glass jar to keep them fresh and chewy.
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work: 20′

time: 40′

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Amigthalota-Greek Almond Biscuits

A very easy dessert with minimal fats, without butter & with minimal ingredients. Almonds ground as the main ingredient and egg whites, beaten in a meringue. Flavored with mastic of Chios Island and cherry liqueur. Their top is decorated with almond flakes and a candied cherry to give them their color, to make them more attractive.
One of the best, traditional delicacies is the almond cookies. The shape, as well as their aromas, vary from place to place. Almonds biscuits are generally made from whitened ground almonds or marzipan, egg whites meringue, and sometimes even semolina. They have pear, rosette, small hill, ball, crescent, etc. shapes.
Sometimes they are sprinkled with powdered sugar and become pure white, and sometimes they remain with the roasted almond crumb visible. The most famous are probably those from the island of Andros, where there is a traditional local industry. The Almond Biscuits of Andros are flavored with rose water.
In all of the Dodecanese, the Cyclades & the islands of the Northeast Aegean, Almond Biscuits are a classic delicacy offered at weddings and engagements…
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work: 20′

time: 1h:00′

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Maple Muesli Biscuits

Without eggs, butter, or milk! Dietary and healthy. Muesli biscuits, with chocolate drops, cranberries, and maple syrup, delicious ingredients for a delicious taste full of flavor. There is also a basic parameter, the unnecessary food processor, with a spoon mixing the ingredients and making cookies soft and crumbly.
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work: 20′

time: 35′

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Almond Pears-Amigthalota

The Argosaronic Islands, Cyclades, Dodecanese and all of our islands -and not only- make and celebrate with these Amigthalota/ Almonds Pears, snowy sweets of joy and hospitality to welcome new life, new names, new beginnings, and new pleasures. Snowy as the purity of the happy moments of our life and flavored with the essence of the blossoms of the sour orange.
As many as our islands are so many variations of this simple and such a beloved delicacy. Grated almond, egg white and fine semolina make up the basic principle to make these fragrant sweets and smell the home tradition and joy!
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work: 30′

time: 1h:00′

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Koulourakia: Cypriot Easter Cookies

These Easter Cookies are traditional Cypriot Easter buns, which although Lenten are traditionally made on Good Friday.
They are flavored with oriental spices but also with Chios mastic and their aromas resemble those of Easter Tsoureki. They are ideally suited to our coffee and we certainly have more than one.
Daktylies is a type of long shaped-bread, which is separated into smaller parallel pieces, in order to be cut off easier and evenly. The ingredients used for daktylies are flour, leaven, water, sesame seeds and aniseed. Many housewives in the countryside continue the tradition and bake daktylies for the needs of the family.
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work: 45′

time: 3h:30′

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Tahini Cookies

Mini cookies of a mouthful, fasting, but without the exclusion of the pleasure of their delicacy and the rest of the year, the non-fasting.
These are the perfect snack for those who are watching their diet. They are dairy-free, egg-free, butter-free but with tahini, orange juice and zest, amber brandy & aromatic spices, which give them their dark color!
Enjoy them with your favorite drink or wrap them on soft, nice wrapping paper & fill gift boxes with them. A remarkable gift for loved ones, friends, associates, neighbors… will be duly appreciated.
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work: 45′

time: 2h:00′

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Cookies with Halva & Raisins

These biscuits are "official", luxurious and ideal to be offered in a sunday relaxing breakfast or in an afternoon meeting with loved ones and the family at a small call friends for coffee and chat or a tea and sympathy as they did once in the grandiose houses with the habits of the old aristocracy. Surely we can not stop enjoying them with hot tea or openings in the middle with freshly ground butter and homemade orange marmalade.
They are made easily and quickly, consumed without remorse and without restraint. They are fluffy, plump & scratchy. Their sugar content is small because Halva (with Super Fruits) and Raisins, the Greek super antioxidant, add enough sweetness. We are sure you will love them as much as we do.
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work: 30′

time: 45′

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Melomakarona - Greek Christmas Honey Cookies

Melomakarona the Greek!
Melomakarona is a famous Greek delicacy to enjoy the Christmas season. They are made with flour, semolina, beer, olive oil and fresh butter from sheep and goat of unique flavor, stuffed with nut and dipped in syrup of honey, sugar and mandarin with extra grated nut with spices to sprinkle them on top.
Oriental spices, honey and citrus aromas to smell our homes during Christmas, this beautiful and hopeful celebration of Christianity!

Happy Christmas!
Happy Holidays!

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time: 2h:00′

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Nutella Cheesecake

Chocolate cheesecake without baking, with ready hazelnut praline (nutella or chocolate spread), delicious biscuits, soft cream cheese and roasted hazelnuts.
One of the standards of confectionery on festive days, because of the ease of its preparation, but also for any other day you wish, is the cheesecake.
Guaranteed flavor and beautiful result with the scattered, crushed hazelnuts on its surface.
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work: 30′

time: 4h:30′

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Kourabiedes: Greek Christmas Butter Cookies

The Kourabiethes are the best known, loved and popular sweets in various forms and names in all Central Europe, Austria, Germany, and in some Eastern European countries such as the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary.
In Greece is the most favorite Christmas dessert and although at first glance the sugared biscuit, crescent, circular or a mouthful, seems to be a rather unspectacular goody -only a little powdered sugar sprinkled upon a biscuit- between all the colorful Christmas buttered sweet cookies, truffles or chocolate treats is a clear favorite. The flavor and texture to win: It is a unique combination of butter and nuts and there is also the fact that melt in your mouth and have lovely crisp texture with roasted almond inside.
Follow the steps of the recipe and enjoy the tastiest kourabiedes ever!
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time: 2h:00′

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Melomakarona-Honey Cookies with Mavrodaphne

Melomakarona, the cousin of Kourambiethes, traditional Christmas sweets have their technique to get soaped in a delicious honey syrup properly, to be tasty and soft inside. The dough should be soft and fluffy to not become hard during baking and syrup to be viscous with a lot of honey and flavored with exquisite essential oils of orange but also the individual flavors of cinnamon and cloves.
The Mavrodaphne, this wonderful Greek product, gives tasty heady tones in melomakarona and as a final complement of all this comes the crushed walnuts to meet all of the above.
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work: 30′

time: 1h:15′

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Turkish Delight & Walnuts Cookies

Biscuit dough crumbles into a thousand crumbs, in contrast to the very tender interior of the Turkish delight, to accompany the crunchy walnut. In our house, they are always made with Turkish delight & walnuts, and we, as children or as adults, love them.
In some areas of Crete, these Skaltsounia are named Patoutha (Τα Πατούδα), with various fillings, and besides dusting with icing sugar, they are also made with syrup. A mouthful delight for the palate and a sweet lenten for every season.
The Lenten «Skaltsounia» are traditional in many parts of Greece with various fillings but also in the Balkan Countries. And also the neighbors Italians make something similar with nuts and dried fruit or jam or chocolate. «They are named «Ravioli Dolci».
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work: 30′

time: 1h:15′

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Gingerbread Men

Gingerbread Cookies usually in the form of a stylized human figure, although other shapes or forms, especially seasonal themes (Christmas, Halloween, Easter, etc.) are common.
The history of these cookies, one of the most famous cookies in the world, starting in the 15th century and the various forms and shapes in the 16th century. Since arriving the expensive and rare spices from the East to Europe and was for use on rich households, nobles and crowned.
The first documented case of human figure shaped gingerbread cookie was in the court of Elizabeth I of England. They had the form and showed similarity with some of the most important visitors.
This typical Christmas cookies, which are made in Northern and Central Europe and across the Atlantic, with ginger, cinnamon, cloves and honey or molasses and decorated with white, chocolate or colored glaze.
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work: 40′

time: 1h:10′

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Noblice Biscuits

The Aristocratic Biscuits, as clearly stated by their name, is a product originating in Serbia but it is also found in the Czech Republic and Croatia.
It is a two-colored stuffed vanilla biscuit and cocoa in a sandwich form with intermediate filling of hazelnut and cocoa, as Nutella or Merenda. With a wonderful, unique, nostalgic buttery texture, which makes them crumble and melt in your mouth and the palate to enjoy a wave of flavors and fragrances. Satisfies every taste requirement, we might have assumed from a cookie, and found here, in Noblice.
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work: 30′

time: 40′

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Orange Glazed Strawberry Scones

Fluffy soft cookies with orange zest, chopped strawberries and a gentle glaze made up with orange juice. The strawberries except color and flavor keeps them juicy and soft. I think these cookies are so delicious, that every bite will pleasantly surprise and delight you. Give it as a snack to children but also on your own box for the job.
Consumed rapidly and eaten fresh.
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work: 15′

time: 35′

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Coconut Rocks

Small rocks of coconut, which is not only tasty, it is also extremely easy and fast to be made and only few ingredients are necessary!
They also have two major advantages: they are with Stevia and they have no Lactose. Those who are intolerant to such carbohydrates will be able to test these small bites.
Coconut, stevia and eggs are the main ingredients. If you want you can add hazelnut praline and have a special Sunday sweet.
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work: 20′

time: 35′

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