Melomakarona (Μελομακάρονα)

Melomakarona - Greek Honey and Spice Christmas biscuits... yum! It really is Christmas in a cookie. I didn't used to be very fond of these bites, but now I love 'em. I like they're so moist, dense and full of flavour too. It's been a bit busy at Paradise Catering with the run up to X mas so i'm writing this now and perhaps signing off til the New Year...or maybe not.
So here's a few snapshots of serious batch making of melomakarona!

The Juice - using fresh ingredients and a few secret Paradise ingredients too.

Mixing in the dry and wet ingredients

Not overly mixed moist Melomakarona mix

My hands were pretty mucky so didn't get the shots of the wide sift we had for etching the hatch criss cross design, but we rolled a round bit of melo mix on a wide sift for the criss cross effect

Soaking the baked Melo cookies in Syrup, you know when it's enough as you give one a quick squeeze
and it should ooze drops of syrup.

Layering up the Melomakarona & crushed walnuts.

If you don't catch us in the next few days,
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
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