Amygdalota

Hello from Athens again. I’ve been trying to write a blog post when I was in Assini for over a week unsuccessfully and I haven’t been visiting my friends’ blogs for quite a long time.  Please forgive me but there are a lot of distractions in the countryside.  You can read a post on our …

Pastitsia, are the Cypriot Almond coookies, also called amygdalota. They are made with almonds and meringue, similar to macaron but they are crunchy outside, soft inside and chewy.

Amygdalota, take their name from amygdala, which mean almonds in Greek and are no bake  Greek cookies from the Greek islands made with blanched almonds and sugar.  They are dipped in rose water and then coated with icing (confectioners’)  sugar.