Melomakarona – Greek Christmas honey cookies
Classic melomakarona is the most popular dessert of the Christmas holiday season and is made with seasonal ingredients such as walnuts, honey and orange juice. Here is an authentic monastic recipe for traditional Mount Athos honey melomakarona, which is easy, quick and of course suitable for fasting. Don't forget to use good quality honey from Mount Athos and also authentic virgin olive oil from the organic olive groves cultivate in the Orchard of Panagia. Try this classic monks recipe and it will make your home smell sweet with Christmas aromas.
We start with the syrup so that it has time to cool. We boil the water with the sugar for a few minutes, then we remove from the heat and add the honey.
We dissolve the soda and baking powder in the cognac. In a large bowl, we beat the olive oil with the sugar and pour in the cognac mixture.
Then, we add the orange juice and cinnamon without stopping to mix.
We pour the flour into our mixture slowly until the dough doesn't stick to our hands.
We shape the melomakarona into a uniform shape, and bake them at 180 degrees for about half an hour.
When they are ready, we drop them hot for a few seconds into the cold syrup and drain.
We sprinkle them with the crushed walnuts.
The flour may not take all because it depends on the quality of the flour.
