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To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook kourabiedes from smyrna using 16 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Kourabiedes from Smyrna:
- Get 750 g clarified butter
- Prepare 500 g margarine
- Take 3 eggs
- Get 200 g sugar
- Take 200 g icing sugar
- Prepare 1 1/2 tsp vanilla
- Make ready 1/2 cup brandy
- Take juice of 2 oranges
- Prepare 2 packets baking powder (20 g each)
- Prepare 1 full tsp baking soda
- Take 500 g powdered almonds
- Prepare 300 g finely chopped hazelnuts
- Make ready 300 g finely chopped almonds
- Prepare about 2300 g all purpose flour
- Prepare For sprinkling
- Get icing sugar
Stir in the beaten eggs, soda diluted in the cognac, cinnamon and the almonds. This recipe uses brandy and almonds to make buttery Greek-style crescent-shaped cookies. By Ceil Wallace; Greek Easter Cookies from Smyrna. These buttery cookies are rich with egg yolks and milk, flavored with fresh lemon zest.
Steps to make Kourabiedes from Smyrna:
- Beat the butter and the margarine in the stand mixer for 15 minutes.
- Add the eggs, the plain sugar, the vanilla, the icing sugar, the baking soda, the brandy and the orange juice. Beat everything together for 10 more minutes.
- Add the almond powder, the hazelnuts and the almonds, still mixing for a while longer.
- Add the baking powder and gradually, the flour. Make a soft pliable dough.
- Form the kourabiedes and place them in a baking tray lined with greaseproof paper.
- Bake at 180°C until golden brown.
- Then dip them into a bowl with icing sugar and spread them on a plater. When they cool completely, sprinkle with a little more icing sugar.
This is my family's kourabiedes recipe, and my personal favorite. These cookies are full of roasted almonds and flavored with brandy (we always use Metaxa) and vanilla. Easiest homemade kourabiedes recipe / Greek Butter cookies. Kourabiedes (kourambiethes) are these delicious traditional Greek butter cookies, packed with the aromas of roasted almonds and fresh butter and garnished with luscious layers of icing sugar. Kourabiedes are special Greek Christmas cookies made with butter and almonds and dusted with powdered sugar.
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