κουραμπιέδες
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Makes about 26 cookies:
The Wet Ingredients:
½ pound unsalted butter softened
1 tablespoon granulated sugar
½ cup confectioners’ sugar
2 egg yolks, at room temperature
1 teaspoon almond extract
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
The Dry Ingredients:
2 cups all-purpose flour
½ teaspoon baking powder
¼ teaspoon salt
1 cup coarsely ground toasted almonds
1-2 cups confectioners’ sugar for garnish
Optional garnish: cloves
Combine the butter, sugars, vanilla, and almond extract in the bowl of a mixer fitted with the paddle attachment. Beat on low speed until combined. Increase the sped to high and beat until fluffy.
Add the egg yolks to the mixture and beat on high speed until combined.
Combine all of the dry ingredients together in a bowl and whisk together.
Add the dry ingredients to the mixer and beat on low speed until a dough is formed.
Transfer the dough to a work surface lightly dusted with flour and roll out to almost ½ inch thick.
Cut out your favorite shapes using a cookie cutter and place on baking trays lined with parchment paper.
You can also make the traditional kourabiedes shape by rolling pieces of dough in your palms to form walnut sized balls. Press the center slightly with your index finger to form an indentation and if desired, place a clove in the center of each cookie.
Chill the cookies in the refrigerator or freezer until firm.
Preheat the oven to 350 °F, 180°C.
Bake the cookies on the center rack for 20-25 minutes or until golden all around.
Set aside to cool.
Dust with confectioners’ sugar and serve with tea or coffee. These are also great to give as gifts!
Make Ahead Tips: Roll out the cookies and cut into your favorite shapes. Set in the freezer until chilled and very firm. Store the frozen cookies in freezer bags until ready to bake. Bake in a preheated 350 °F oven until golden.
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32 Comments
Γεια σου Δήμητρα σε ευχαριστω πολυ ωραίο 😘
these look so delicious 😋
how much butter do we use? measurement in kilos
Hello Dimitra, your recipe looks very good , i wanted to know if we could make the recipe without eggs please ? Thank you and have nice day.
Emily from France 🙂
You're best. thanks for sharing this classic.
Why don’t you list the ingredients?
I’ll say it again. You are wonderful. Your recipes are clear and concise. I know my mom is looking down at me smiling. So far I’ve made spanakopita, triopitas and kourabiethes. Sorry. I know my spelling is off. My mom didn’t use dill in her spanikopita. She used nutmeg. Thank you again and again.
Hi Dimitra, I made these for Xmas Eve and they were delicious!! I had to stop myself from eating too many…lol If I had more almonds I would whip up another batch tonight 🙂 I have a huge bag of almond meal I'm tempted to try using this but I'm worried it would ruin the mix.
My grandma used to make them at Christmas. We used to love them. I’ve never tried to make them myself but will try them. She always made them crescent shaped.
Check the screw on top dd . d
Hi Dimitra, thank you for your lovely recipe, can we use almond meal ( store bought) instead of using whole ones? Would the taste be similar? Thanks 🥰🌹🌺🇦🇺💕
These are my faves too. Love them. I do have a couple of questions, first where do you get the butter that is in a block like cream cheese and more personal how many kitchens do you have? I'm new to your channel and watching so many of your videos and I count 3 seperate kitchens. All 3 gorgeous.
Ewwww, lose the cloves!
Hello Dimitra. Does by any chance you have a recipe gia kourabiedes with gluten free flour like almond flour or gluten free all purpose flour? I looooove kourabiedes BUT cant eat gluten and I would love to make some for Christmas. Thank you.
Dimitra, I made kourabiedes for the holidays using your recipe and instructions. When guests and friends came by I put out platters of these delicious cookies and watched them disappear before my unbelieving eyes. For Valentine's Day I cut them heart-shaped, dusted them and placed them in pretty paper liners. They disappeared again! By the way, your snowman rubber spatula is the cutest!
Hi Dimitra,
I love these cookies but lately they come out too crumbly and I am using the ingredients as you state. Should I just add more butter?
Your a hoot tasting the cookies and it's 3:24pm.. and need them now..lol making for 4th of July.
And making plaki your recipe tonight. "Dimitria in the House!" Lol
Ty!
Have a good fourth!
This cookies are just delicious!! Not kidding!!
Thanks for the recepie.
L
I love a shortbread cookie with a cup of tea. Almonds are my favorite nut! This cookie is the BEST of both!! They also ship well. I send them to my daughter. Also use the absolute best quality butter you can find…it makes a huge difference!
Where is your Bakary?
They are amazing thank you for sharing!
Always ready to taste new dishes! Yummy, yum! Doing the air fryer way.
Waving to you from south Georgia-land of best Peaches, boiled Peanuts, & Vidalia onions!
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Thank You!
Can we use whole eggs instead egg yolks? Thank you sooo much❤️❤️
Best ever.. melted in my mouth.. never thought I could make these so perfect.. thank you. Only one substitute.. rose water instead of almond extract..! And 1/2 the toasted almonds chunks.. best cookies I ever made.. thanks again Dimitra!!
Oh how wonderful
I simply adore almond anything, so I am certainly going to try these..yummy!!
Thank you for sharing your recipe 👌🌟🇿🇦
Made these today, so many versions around!!! Have always made my grandmother's version which is definitely more of a shortbread dough, with no almonds or eggs!!! I like yours and i like her simple version
as well!! I think perhaps depending on what island you came from the people used what ingredients they had
available!!! Another version was with 1 Tablespoon of grated orange rind, which i didn't add!!! Anyway hubby and i really enjoyed your version and had 5 each, which speaks for itself!!!Thanks!!!
How do I get written recipe please?
Het Dimitri can I use gluten free all purpose flour in place of the normal one as I'm g/f
Sorry for the spelling it's suppose to say 'hey'
Also Dimitra I can't find your recipe in written measurements of how much flour you use in your kourabiedes