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The ingredients needed to make Traditional Christmas Honey Cookies with Walnuts – Melomakarona:
- Take 280 ml extra virgin olive oil
- Get 140 ml melted butter
- Make ready 140 ml fresh orange juice
- Take 1 large egg
- Make ready 2 tbsp granulated sugar
- Prepare 1 tbsp ground cinnamon
- Take 1 tsp ground clove
- Make ready 700 g all purpose flour
- Prepare 1 tsp baking soda
- Prepare 200 g finely chopped walnuts
- Get 420 g pure honey
- Prepare 130 g sugar
- Prepare 300 ml water
- Take peel of an orange
- Get 1 cinnamon stick
Instructions to make Traditional Christmas Honey Cookies with Walnuts – Melomakarona:
- In a large bowl, mix olive oil, melted butter and orange juice with a whisk. Add the egg and mix well.
- In a separate bowl, whisk about ⅓ of the flour, cinnamon, clove, baking soda & sugar. Add this flour mixture to the bowl with the liquids and whisk well.
- Add ⅓ of the remaining flour and start mixing with your hand. It’s important to feel when to stop adding flour.
- Continue adding flour gradually and knead gently. When the dough is soft but not sticky, it means it’s ready. Stop adding flour.
- Cover with plastic wrap and allow to rest for 30 min.
- Shape the dough into small balls, about 25g each (or the size of a walnut). Give each ball a cylindrical shape and make a pit in the center. Put ½ tsp of walnuts and pinch to seal it.
- Arrange them on a paper lined baking tray, seam side down. Prick them with a fork. This will help them absorb the syrup easily.
- Bake in a preheated oven, at 200⁰C / 400⁰F for 23 to 25 min. Let them cool completely before putting them in the syrup.
- Put water, sugar & honey in a medium pot, over medium heat. Stir and add the orange peel and the cinnamon stick.
- Let it come to a boil and remove the foam with a slotted spoon.
- After 4 min remove the peel and the cinnamon stick. Lower the heat.
- Put some cookies in the syrup, curved side down. Let them simmer for exactly 2 minutes!
- Flip and let them simmer for another 2 min.
- Take them out of the syrup with the slotted spoon and transfer on a paper lined baking tray.
- Sprinkle with walnuts while they’re still wet from the syrup.
- Repeat the process for the rest of the cookies.
- Let them cool completely before serving.
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