This document summarizes two traditional Greek Christmas sweets: Kourabiedes and Melomakarona. Kourabiedes are sugared biscuits made from butter, milk, almonds, sugar, flour, rum and icing sugar. They are baked and then coated in powdered sugar. Melomakarona are honey cakes made from oil, sugar, orange juice, cognac, flour, cinnamon, cloves and walnuts. The dough is left to rise before being formed into balls and baked. The hot cakes are dipped in a syrup of water, sugar and honey before being topped with grated walnuts. Both sweets are staples of Greek homes during the Christmas season.

1. Greek Traditional Christmas’
Sweets
• The ‘’Kourabies’’( sugared bun ) is a
sweet feature widespread throughout
Greece. It is one of the most traditional
sweets especially for Christmas!
The name comes from the Turkish
Kurabiye, which means biscuit, pastry
flour, butter and icing sugar.

3. Ingredients
• 600 g butter milk
250 g almond
220 g caster sugar
50 g rum
1200 g flour
1 vanilla
1 teaspoon baking powder
1000 g caster sugar ( for the powdering )

4. Procedure
• Beat the butter for 20 minutes. Afterwards , pour
the flour ,the baking powder, the vanilla ,the
almonds and lastly the rum and then mix them
slightly and leave the yeast for an hour.
After an hour, take a little yeast and conjure
small balls. These small balls are going to be
baked to the oven for 15-20 minutes at 170
degrees .
After baked, remove them from the oven and
allow them to cool. When they cool, sprinkle
them with caster sugar .

5. • The ‘’melomakarono’’("small
honey cake".) is made ​essentially of flour,
oil and honey. It ranks as the buns
honored in national pastries that are
considered essential in every Greek house
especially at Christmas time.

6. Ingredients
• 3 cups oil
1 cup sugar
a half cup orange juice
a half cup cognac
1 teanspoon baking soda
cinnamon
carnation
walnut
For the syrup
3 cups water
3 cups sugar
3 cups honey

7. Procedure
• Beat the oil and the sugar together for 5 minutes.
Mix the orange juice with the baking soda. Then , throw it
to the mixture ( oil&sugar).
After that ,throw the cognac , the cinnamon , the
carnation and lastly the flour and mix them slightly .
Let the yeast for 30 minutes.
After these 30 minutes, take some of the yeast to your
hand and conjure it to balls!
In the end , make holes with a fork in each
melomakarono and afterwards, bake them at 180
degrees for 25 minutes.
Boil the syrup for 10 minutes. When It cools , dip the hot
melomakarona into this and then sprinkle them with
grated walnut!

8. Melomakarona
Kourabiedes
Finish!!!