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"These are a coarse-grained cookie soaked in a honey syrup (the semolina achieves this), popular throughout Greece during the Christmas Holidays. They are wonderful and are THE recipe that makes my house smell like Christmas - orange peel and cloves and cinnamon. The most unbelievable perfume wafts through the house for a couple of days after baking!..."

Ingredients: light olive oil, corn oil...

"These are great and keep a long time. Not as sweet as traditional baklava as they are not soaked in syrup, merely dusted with powdered sugar.

*Please note that a few of the ingredients are showing up incorrectly on the recipe page and is not fixable currently. The following amounts are what should appear:

Syrup:
1 1/4 cups..."

Ingredients: cinnamon, cinnamon sticks...

"Good to serve along with a glass of wine."

Ingredients: cracked black pepper, dried basil...

"Basically a Greek butterball cookie recipe. These, with Melomakarona, are found in every Greek home during the Christmas Holidays. I go through phases. One year, or for a couple of years, these are my favourites, then Melomakarona are, and I keep switching back and forth. They're both wonderful! These keep wonderfully, long after Christmas is over,..."

Ingredients: rose water, orange flower water...

"At one time, I made these often as a nice treat with a quiet cup of tea. Unlike the other koulourakia recipes posted here, this one is not a butter cookie, rather a nice combination of citrus and walnuts. Though these are traditionally served with a light dusting of powdered sugar, my guess is dipping the ends in chocolate would also work well. More..."

Ingredients: oranges, zest of, egg yolks...

"Traditional Greek cookies are 2 small strands of dough twisted together and brushed with egg-milk mixture and sprinkled with sesame seed."

Ingredients: eggs, milk, orange juice...

"This recipe comes from All Recipes. It is from a Greek family who used to live next door and made these every year to give to neighbors. Posted for Zaar World Tour 4."

Ingredients: confectioners' sugar, eggs...

"A Greek style butter cookie. You can easily replace the cognac with water or milk. Posted for 'Zaar World Tour II. Time includes chill time."

Ingredients: cognac, confectioners' sugar...

"From the Betty Crocker website. This is a prize winning recipe. I haven't tried it, but I definitely will!"

Ingredients: eggs, sugar cookie mix...

"This cookie has a texture like no other cookie."

Ingredients: cinnamon, confectioners' sugar...

"The perfect accompaniment to fruit or cream desserts. These are "sweet and spicy". Very good with Fragrant Apricot Ice Cream (Verikoka Pagota Aromatika). Posted for ZWT6. From "Flavors of Greece" by Rosemary Barron."

Ingredients: confectioners' sugar, eggs...

"These sound yummy! Untried by me, posted for ZWT. Adapted from "Vefa's Kitchen". Note that prep time includes chilling time for the dough."

Ingredients: confectioners' sugar, Greek yogurt...

"Scrumptious cookies that marry traditional chocolate chip, Greek Fenekias and middle eastern Mammouls. The whole wheat flour is a nice alternative to all-purpose and the farina adds lots of iron!

*This recipe was adapted from Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Nut Cookies by veggie@execpc.com at www.vegweb.com."

Ingredients: chocolate chips, farina...

"Posted for the Zaar World Tour-Greece.
From the "International Vegetarian Cookbook". I have had cookies similar to these, but not this exact recipe."

Ingredients: egg yolks, margarine...