How To make Kourabiedes (Wedding Cakes)
1 c Unsalted butter; room temp
1/4 c Sugar
1 Egg yolk
2 tb Brandy; or orange juice
2 1/2 c All-purpose flour
1/2 ts Baking powder
1/2 c Ground blanched almonds
30 Wholecloves; if desired
Powdered sugar For sprinkling Combine butter and sugar in a large bowl. Beat in egg yolk until mixtrue is smooth and light. Beat in brandy or juice. Sift together flour and baking powder. Add to egg mixture a little at a time, beating well after each addition. Stir in almonds. Turn out onto a floured surface. Knead with floured hands until dough is no longer sticky. Preheat oven to 350~. Pinch off 1" pieces, shape into balls or crescents. If desired insert 1 whole clove in center of each, or use your fingers to press 1 or 2 dimples into each cookie. Place on ungreased baking sheets. Bake 30-35 minutes or until cookies are pale golden. Cool on baking sheets. Sprinkle heavily with powdered sugar while still warm. Cookies are extremely fragile. Remove from baking sheets with a spatula. Store in an airtight container between sheets of waxed paper. Makes about 30. -----
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Kourabiedes with Yiayia
I spent my Christmas break making Kourabiedes with my yiayia. These are basically Greek sugar/shortbread cookies. If you want to make your own, i have a recipe linked down below:
Mexican Wedding Cakes Recipe Demonstration - Joyofbaking.com
Recipe here: Stephanie Jaworski of Joyofbaking.com demonstrates how to make Mexican Wedding Cakes.
Mexican Wedding Cakes are a melt-in-your mouth shortbread cookie that goes by many names; a Russian Tea Cake, an Italian Butter Nut, a Southern Pecan Butterball, a Snowdrop, a Viennese Sugar Ball and a Snowball. They are very popular, not only during the Christmas season, but also at weddings, christenings, and other festive occasions. Looking at these cookies you could mistake them for Melting Moments, as the only difference between the two is that Mexican Wedding Cakes contain ground nuts (either ground pecans, hazelnuts, almonds, or walnuts).
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Kourabiedes - Greek Christmas Butter Cookies
Walnut sugar cookies (Kourabiedes)- these snowy flavorful cookies, with their rich walnut flavor and buttery taste, are a must for Christmas. They are crunchy and soft, just melting in your mouth.
Ingredients: (1 cup = 200 g = 200 ml)
1.5 cups (300 g) butter
1 cup (200 g) sugar
3 tsp (14 g) vanilla sugar OR 2 tsp vanilla extract
1.5 cups (300 ml) sunflower oil
1 cup (200 ml) cognac
2 egg yolks
31.7 oz (900 g) all-purpose flour
1 tsp (4 g) baking soda
1.5 cups (300 g) crushed walnuts
1.5 cups powdered sugar
Preheat the oven to 356 F (180 C)and layer the bottom of 2 baking trays with parchment paper.
Mix together butter, sugar and vanilla sugar or vanilla extract. Beat it with a mixer until it becomes soft and fluffy. Add oil, cognac and egg yolks. Mix well
In another bowl combine flour with baking soda. After stirring, add walnuts and stir again. Knead the dough little bit to blend everything better and to make it smoother. Form the cookies.
Bake kourabiedes for about 15 minutes until they become LIGHTLY golden brown (i slightly overbaked mine).
Let cookies cool completely before coating them generously with powdered sugar. Enjoy!
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Easy Russian Tea Cakes | Recipe by Lounging with Lenny
Russian tea cakes. Russian tea cakes are well-know Christmas cookies. Russian tea cakes also called Russian tea cookies, Mexican wedding cookies, snowball cookies, Mexican wedding cakes and etc. This Christmas cookies are very easy to make and extremely delicious. Russian tea cakes will melt in your mouth. Follow my step-by-step Russian tea cakes recipe and enjoy.
Russian Tea Cakes Ingredients:
2 sticks butter
1 tbsp vanilla extract
7 tbsp powdered sugar
2 cups flour
1 cup powdered sugar (to dredge)
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Kourabiedes... Best Christmas Cookie ever, but eaten the whole year too!!!
The Kourabiedes cookies are almond cookies popular in Greece, Cyprus, and Greek communities in Anatolia, as well as across the Greek diaspora and have in their DNA the European origin of the shortbread type cookies.
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Date & Walnut Filled Kourambiedes: Greek/Cypriot Phoinikota
Phoinikota are Cypriot kourambiedes, shortbread cookies, (without nuts in the dough) that are stuffed with a sweet surprise in their center. The most common fillings are either a date paste or an aromatic nut mixture. My favorite has to be the walnut filling because the cookies end up tasting like baklava.
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