![]() You can find rosewater in your grocery store in the international aisle or purchase some online! Rosewater is added to this cookie dough, which lends a beautiful sweet, floral scent. You want your butter to be cold for this recipe. Butter is a major flavor point in this recipe! You want your Kourabiedes to taste buttery, so be sure to use the best quality butter you can find - something with a high-fat content! I used unsalted butter for this recipe to monitor how much salt I added. Even sweet treats need a touch of salt! Salt helps bring out the flavors of almond, butter, and sugar in your homemade Kourabiedes. Baking powder is what helps make these cookies rise when baking. I like to make Homemade Almond Flour for this recipe. Almond flour is used both for texture and flavor in these cookies. Out of powdered sugar? You can make your own using my guide, How To Make Homemade Powdered Sugar. Powdered sugar is added to the cookie dough and, once baked, used to coat the cookies. AP flour will serve as the base of this recipe and helps give our cookies their texture. Kourabiedes can come in a few shapes, but you’ll most likely see them in the shape of a crescent or circle - I make circular Kourabiedes. Kourabiedes is also made to celebrate big events, like weddings and christenings! In fact, some people call them “Greek Wedding Cookies.” Families will make plenty of Kourabiedes to have on their kitchen counters to eat every day of the week around Christmas. Not much is known about where the recipe for Kourabiedes originated, but we do know they’re very popular around the holiday season. It’s likely that Kourabiedes originally came from Turkey, where they are called “kurabiye,” where “kuru” means “dry,” and “biye” means “biscuit” or cookie. ![]() Traditionally, Kourabiedes is made with goat butter, but for my recipe, and in most modern recipes, you’ll find cow’s butter is used. Their texture and flavor are a lot like a classic shortbread cookie - very crumbly and delicate and deliciously buttery. Kourabiedes, pronounced “kou-rah-bee-EH-thez,” also known as kourambiethes and singularly called “kourabies,” are almond-flavored cookies made with butter and sugar, filled with toasted almonds, scented with rosewater, and coated in powdered sugar. What Are Kourabiedes? How Do You Pronounce “Kourabiedes?” What Are Kourabiedes? How Do You Pronounce “Kourabiedes?”.Try them alongside another Christmas favorite, Melomakarona (Sticky Greek Honey Cookies)! Table Of Contents These butter almond cookies are easy to make and wonderful to add to your holiday cookie tray. That sugar, and the delicate cookies, just melt in your mouth when you eat them - plus, they couldn’t look more festive with that snow-like coating of sugar! Then, these crumbly shortbread-like cookies are coated in sweet powdered sugar. Kourabiedes, also known as kourambiethes, are a traditional Greek Christmas cookie flavored with almond flour and almond extract, filled with delicious toasted almonds, and scented with beautiful rosewater. You have to try my Greek Kourabiedes recipe! Now it’s no secret that I’ve got a serious arsenal of Christmas cookies to choose from when you’re baking for the holidays, so please don’t take this recommendation lightly. WHY I LOVE THIS RECIPE: My homemade Kourabiedes, or Greek Christmas Butter Cookies, have a crumbly, melt-in-your-mouth shortbread-like texture, almond-flavored cookies filled with nuts, and are scented with lovely rosewater. Please see my full disclosure for details.
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