Kourabiedes - Greek Christmas cookies - recipe with step-by-step photos

Ingredients for 20 cookies:

• 170-180 grams of wheat flour
• 80 grams of softened butter
• 60 grams of sugar
• 30 grams of almond flour (roasted almond flakes in the Greek recipe)
• 1 teaspoon with cognac
• 1 egg yolk
• a bit of cinnamon (nutmeg in the Greek recipe)
• a bit of salt

Beat the softened butter with the sugar and the egg yolk for 5 minutes.

Preheat the oven at 180 Celsius degrees.
Add the cinnamon (nutmeg), the cognac and the almond flour and mix.

Add the flour and the salt and mix until everything incorporated. You will have a sticky dough. If needed, add just half of a teaspoon with water.

Make little balls or crescent biscuits and put them in the oven for 20 minutes at 180 Celsius degrees or until done. Let them cool, then sprinkle above some powdered sugar .

Enjoy!

The recipe was taken from here