Greek Christmas Cookies

Name: Greek Christmas Cookies
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 1 h 40 min
Yield: 2
Cuisine: Europe, Greek
Ingredients: 200 g butter; 150 g sugar; 1 sachet vanilla sugar; 20 ml ouzo; 2 Eggs; 1 pinch salt; 400 g flour; 125 g shelled ground almonds; 40 cloves; 50 ml orange blossom water (Greek grocery store or pharmacy); powdered sugar

Prep: 45min

| Servings: 2 | Cook: 20min

Greek Christmas cookies is a recipe with fresh ingredients from the cookie category. Try this and other recipes from Spoonsparrow!

Ingredients

200 g butter
150 g sugar
1 sachet vanilla sugar
20 ml ouzo
2 Eggs
1 pinch salt
400 g flour
125 g shelled ground almonds
40 cloves
50 ml orange blossom water (Greek grocery store or pharmacy)
powdered sugar

Instructions

1.
Beat the butter with sugar and vanilla sugar until fluffy, then stir in ouzo, eggs and salt.
2.
Add flour and almonds to the butter mixture and knead everything together. Shape the dough into two rolls, wrap each in plastic wrap and refrigerate for 1 hour.
3.
Divide the dough into 40 equal pieces. Shape each piece into a round, slightly domed cookie about 1.5 cm high.
4.
Place the cookies on two baking sheets lined with parchment paper, spacing them about 2 cm apart, and insert one clove into each.
5.
Bake in a preheated oven at 180°C for about 15–20 minutes. Remove, set on a cooling rack, brush with orange blossom water, sprinkle powdered sugar, and let cool.