Aromatic Kourabiedes are Greek cookies, similar to shortbread cookies, coated with icing sugar and flavoured with vanilla or masticha (mastic resin) and a well known brand of Greek brandy is also added.
Cookies and biscuits
These peanut butter cookies are easy to make and are crispy full of peanut butter flavour. These American cookies are my all time favourite cookies and my children also love them. They melt in your mouth and the amazing taste of peanut butter and the combination of sweet and salty makes them irresistible. Today’s recipe is …
Although in my last post I mentioned that it would take a long time to have an internet connection, things turned out much easier than what we were originally expecting and got the telephone line installed a couple of weeks after we arrived. It was a real odyssey to relocate and three weeks later most …
Traditional Lambriatika Koulourakia (also called Paschalina Koulourakia), are Greek Easter butter cookies, which are traditionally made only during Easter and have a distinct flavour as baking ammonia is used as the leavening agent.
Macarons are the new madness, frenziness, fashion, trend or whatever else you want to call it in desserts. It is a meringue cookie and its main ingredients are egg whites, sugar and ground almonds. Macarons can be filled with buttercream, jam, lemon curd, pastry cream, whipped cream, chocolate ganache or any other filling you like.
Christmas time is a period when we all over indulge into baking cakes, cookies, and other Christmas treats. We bake so much that we eat and eat and they never seem to end. Now, if you are lucky and working, you can always “get rid” of a few calories by taking some at your …
There always seems to be a new trend in baking and after the frenzy of cupcakes a couple of years ago, where everybody was making cupcakes and then last year with macaroons, this year I have read that whoopie pies will be the new trend, so I am sure we will be seeing A LoT …
Loukoumia tou Gamou, are the Cypriot Wedding Cakes, offered in Cyprus at weddings, instead of bombonieres (favours), which are offered in Greece.
If you love the taste of lemon, these Lemon Shortbread Cookies are tart and lemony and melt in your mouth, that you cannot eat just one!
Melomakarona are Greek spicy Christmas olive oil and flour – semolina cookies drenched in a honey syrup and sprinkled with walnuts on top.