World Flavors Cookbook

Kourabiedes

Name: Kourabiedes
Cook time: 20 min
Cuisine: Greece
Ingredients: 500g flour; 300g unsalted butter, at room temperature; 150g icing sugar (plus 300g for coating); 1 egg yolk; 1 tsp vanilla; 1 tbsp rosewater or brandy; 100g blanched almonds, toasted and roughly chopped

White butter cookies smothered in icing sugar — Greece's other essential Christmas sweet, melting and buttery.

Cuisine: Greece

Ingredients

500g flour
300g unsalted butter, at room temperature
150g icing sugar (plus 300g for coating)
1 egg yolk
1 tsp vanilla
1 tbsp rosewater or brandy
100g blanched almonds, toasted and roughly chopped

Instructions

Beat butter until very pale and fluffy (10 minutes).
Add icing sugar, egg yolk, vanilla, and rosewater. Beat well.
Fold in flour and almonds. Mix to a soft dough.
Shape into crescents or balls.
Bake at 160C for 20 minutes. They should not colour.
Cool 10 minutes.
Sift icing sugar generously over warm cookies (coat completely).