Greek Butter Cookies (Kourambiedes)
Published December 5, 1992
- Total Time
- 50 minutes
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Ingredients
1 pound unsalted butter
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 teaspoons baking powder
4 teaspoons confectioners' sugar
½ cup crushed walnuts
1 pound flour, sifted
Additional confectioners' sugar for sprinkling
Nutritional analysis per serving
6 grams carbs; 19 milligrams cholesterol; 91 calories; 2 grams monosaturated fat; 1 gram polyunsaturated fat; 4 grams saturated fat; 7 grams fat; 14 milligrams sodium; 1 gram protein
Note: The information shown is Edamam’s estimate based on available ingredients and preparation. It should not be considered a substitute for a professional nutritionist’s advice.
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Preparation
- Step 1
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. With an electric mixer, whip the butter until creamy. Add the egg, vanilla extract, baking powder, sugar and nuts. Mix thoroughly.
- Step 2
Add the flour until the dough becomes too stiff to beat with a mixer. By hand, add flour and knead until dough is smooth and rolls off your fingers without sticking.
- Step 3
Roll the dough out by hand into a cylinder roughly one inch in diameter and eight inches long. Cut diagonally into one-and-a-half-inch pieces. Bake for 25 to 30 minutes, or until the bottoms of the cookies are golden brown. Let the cookies cool and sprinkle them generously with confectioners' sugar.
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I followed this recipe to a T and the cookies were awful. They were so granular from all the flour, and not sweet at all (even with powdered sugar on top). Baker beware! Try another recipe for these snowballs.
I have been baking these for years. The best!
My Grandmothers recipe called for very finely ground almonds NOT walnuts. No vanilla but add a shot of whiskey. With most Greek cookies you only add enough flour till the sides of the bowl come clean. This was the standard within our family and all the Greek women in our community.
My Grandmothers recipe called for very finely ground almonds NOT walnuts. No vanilla but add a shot of whiskey. With most Greek cookies you only add enough flour till the sides of the bowl come clean. This was the standard within our family and all the Greek women in our community.
I followed this recipe to a T and the cookies were awful. They were so granular from all the flour, and not sweet at all (even with powdered sugar on top). Baker beware! Try another recipe for these snowballs.
I have been baking these for years. The best!