Koulourakia Cookies

INGREDIENTS

• 4 sticks Land o Lakes unsalted butter (room temperature or soft)

• 2 6oz. glasses of sugar

• 14 egg yolks

• 1 glass luke warm whole milk

• 2 Tbsp Vanilla extract (liquid, to help cookie batter rise)

• ½ tsp Kronos Vanilla flavoring powder

• 8 cups Five Roses Flour (or Pillsbury, do not use self-rise)

• 7 tsp baking powder (add to flour)

DIRECTIONS

• Pour sugar and soft butter into blender and mix for about 15-20 minutes until batter smooth.

• Add yolks, vanilla extract and vanillin powder to batter and continue to mix for about another 15 minutes.

• Add in room temperature milk.

• Mix everything together.

•  In a separate bowl -manually mix with a spoon the flour and baking powder for about 5 minutes.

•  Slowly add flour mix to the batter and blend all together creating the complete Koulouria batter. 

• Mix until unified as one batter.

•  Pinch off a small ball of the dough (approx. 1 inch/3cm in diameter) and roll it into a rope.

• You can then try to:

  • Twist it into “braids”

  • Fold them in 3 to form little boats.

  • Shape into an S

  • Or just let your imagination run wild and form the dough in any shape you like!

• Prepare 3 egg yolks into a cup and stir..you will use this to brush tiny bit of egg yolk on each cookie top for a glaze before placing tray in oven to bake.

•  Bake for about 12-15 minutes at 400 degrees until fluffy and golden brown on top.