Last Updated on April 1, 2017 by Chef Mireille
This recipe has been in my drafts folder to post for over a year, but then something else comes along to replace my making and posting them. I discovered this recipe several years ago when I was hosting a Greek themed dinner party. Many years later, I don’t recall where I got the recipe from. I’ve made it many times and it’s always a big hit. While baklava is probably the most well known Greek dessert, I prefer some of their lesser known treats like these delightful cookies and Galaktaboureko.
These cookies are perfect to serve at Easter after your Roast Lamb!
Yield: 25-30 cookies
Ingredients:
- 1 cup butter
- 1/2 cup powdered sugar
- 1 egg yolk
- 1 teaspoon almond extract
- 1 teapoon vanilla extract
- 2 tablespoons brandy
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 2 1/4 cups cake flour
- 3/4 cup almond flour/ almond meal
- extra powdered sugar, for coating
Preheat oven to 400 F.
Using an electric mixer, beat butter until light and fluffy.
In a bowl, sift the flour and baking powder.
Add powdered sugar, egg yolk, almond extract, vanilla, extract and brandy to the butter and mix well.
Add the sifted flour a little at a time, beating well after each addition.
Using a rubber spatula, fold in the almond meal until you have a stiff dough.
Pinch off walnut pieces of dough and shape into crescents. Place on parchment lined baking sheets, one inch apart.
Bake for 15 minutes.
Place an even coating of powdered sugar onto a flat plate.
Immediately remove the cookies to the plate. Add additional powdered sugar on top and let the cookies cool.
Once cooled, roll the cookies in the powdered sugar. Eat and enjoy!
These just melt in your mouth because of the texture created from the use of the powdered sugar, inside and out.
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They are awesome. I had recently made these and I loved them. I love the shapes you have got as for the melt in the mouth kourambiedes…….. Mmmmmmmmmmm!
These scrumptious cookies are in my to do list, love to have some..
wow fabulous cookies 🙂 and lovely shape!!
Wow.. look so delicious and tasty
Buttery, nutty…these crescent cookies must be divine!
Jaw dropping u have got it perfect I have a friend who loves this very mch I will make ur recipe and surprise her thanks for sharing mireille.
wow…they are very tempting..loving the shape..good-luck sign!!
Long back I read one M&B book in which the heroine is trying her luck as a nanny to a baby in a Greek family. She is also fond of cooking and makes a batch of Kourambiedes to appease some wrong doing. Till very recently I had this picture of the description from the book in my head.
Yours pictures have hit the nail on its head. Now I don't have to wonder how they are.
Mireille they look so tempting.
Very interesting cookies.. Love the horse-shoe shape and they look addictive.
Love the shape and the last pic.Looks very appetizing Mir..
Lovely kourabiethes ! I made them recently and we enjoyed them a lot…
Looks tempting…
Wow those are looking so good Mir. I won't try hard to pronounce, but I am fine with the looks and taste..:)
I heard about this couple of month's back but never tried it. They look super crispy and delicious…
love the look of it, Mir!
i want to make these soon..i had seen this recipe in one of the travel shows, but that seemed a little intimidating, now with someone known having made them, many times, i will make them for sure
They look yum, buttery & tempting..
so buttery and delicious!!! have come out perfectly!!
Sowmya
I guess with the end of this BM, my to-do list would be so long!! Another one added here, right after the potato pancakes…
ah1This is tempting me…dunno how many i have bookmarked from your space!!
Those are so tempting!