These cookies are closely associated with Easter in Greece, another of the Greek paschal traditions that include dyed red eggs that are given to friends and family. In some villages the blanched almonds are replaced by sesame seeds.

Ingredients

450 g (about 4 1/2 cups) flour
1/2 cup butter
250 ml (1 cup) sugar
3 eggs [...]

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Vasilopita Recipe
1 cup sliced almonds
1 cup butter
2 cups sugar
6 eggs (beat whites first and put them aside)
3 ½ cups flour
2 tsp baking powder
1 cup milk
round stainless steel pan
Slice almonds. Beat the butter and blend with the sugar. Add egg yolks. Mix in the flour and baking powder. Warm milk and pour [...]

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Cake ingredients
14 eggs
1 cup sugar
1 pound almond meats, ground
2 1/2 cup toasted bread crumbs
1 tablespoon baking powder
1 tablespoon vanilla
cinnamon

Beat eggs, add sugar with egg beater. Add baking powder and vanilla. Mix half of the almonds with bread crumbs, rub together between palms. Add a little at a time to other mixture. Grease a 14 inch, [...]

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Koulourakia is a plain, lightly sweetened Greek cookie.
 
INGREDIENTS:

8 to 9 cups flour
2 tablespoons baking powder
1 pound butter, softened
2 cups sugar
6 eggs, lightly beaten
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1 egg beaten with 1 tablespoon water

 
PREPARATION:
Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Sift together flour and baking powder. Set aside. Cream butter and sugar. Add eggs to butter mixture. Combine completely. [...]

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Finikia - Honey dipped cookies

7 cups flour
2 tablespoons baking powder
2 cups oil
1 cup butter, melted
1 cup orange juice
1 cup sugar
1/2 cup walnuts, chopped
1 ounce cognac or brandy
12 ounces honey
2 cups sugar
1-1/2 cups water
Juice of 1/2 lemon, strained
Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.
Sift together the flour and baking powder. In a large bowl combine oil and [...]

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INGREDIENTS:2 kilos soft flour

1 kilo butter
300 grams powdered sugar
300 grams crushed roasted almonds
1 small glass cognac
1 teaspoon baking soda
Rosewater
Preheat oven to medium (175c).
• Whiten the butter by beating by hand for ½ hour. Add the sugar, cognac, almonds and finally the flour, [...]

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Ingredients:

1 lb. Shelled, blanched, and finely ground Almonds
1 1/2 to 2 cups cups Sugar
1/2 cup Water
1-2 tablespoons Orange Flower Water
Confectioner’s Sugar for sprinkling
Directions:
In a large heavy pot, heat the ground almonds, sugar, water and orange flower water. [...]

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Ingredients:
20 eggs
2 ¼ cups sugar
2 ¼ cups flour
2 ¼ cups semolina
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
Lemon rindSyrup
9 cups sugar
7 cups water
2 vanillas
1/2 lemon, juice

Instructions:Whisk the egg whites into fluffy meringue and add one egg yolk. Add the sugar, flour, baking powder, semolina and lemon rind. Bake for about 45 minutes at 180o degrees.
Leave to cool and prepare [...]

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Ingredients:

1 dose of samblé dough
1 dose of almond cream
4-5 medium pears
750 ml sweet white wine (1 bottle)
Sugar and pine seeds for sprinkling
Samblé dough
100 gr caster sugar
200 gr butter from the fridge
1 egg
300 gr flour
Almond Cream
125 gr. fresh butter
125 gr.caster sugar
125 gr. almonds hulled or powder
2 big eggs or 3 small
25 gr. flour
25 gr. black rum

Instructions:
Samblé [...]

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Ingredients:
Chocolate coffee mix

500 grams of melted chocolate
150 grams of butter
Yolk from 15 eggs whipped with 150 grams of sugar
Egg white meringue from the whites of 15 eggs
3 teaspoons baking powder
5 teaspoons Nescafe
A dash of Vanilla

Lemon cake mix

100 grams of egg yolk
170 grams of sugar
85 grams [...]

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