Hey everyone, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, easter cookies (koulourakia). One of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Easter cookies (koulourakia) is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods in the world. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions daily. They are fine and they look wonderful. Easter cookies (koulourakia) is something that I’ve loved my entire life.

And right in the center, you find a basket filled with the Greek Koulourakia (these Greek Easter cookies recipe), "Tsoureki" and red-dyed eggs. Already waiting, to treat every guest that comes to say "Xronia Polla", in this case, it translates to "Happy Easter". The fluffiest and crunchiest traditional Greek Easter cookies recipe (koulourakia) you have ever made!

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have easter cookies (koulourakia) using 11 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Easter cookies (koulourakia):

1. Prepare 2 cups sugar
2. Take 4 eggs
3. Prepare 250 g butter
4. Prepare 1/2 cup milk
5. Take 1/2 cup orange juice
6. Take grated zest of one orange
7. Make ready 1 kg flour
8. Take 4 tsp baking powder
9. Get 2 tsp vanilla essence
10. Make ready 1/2 tsp soda
11. Get 1/2 tsp salt

Koulourakia are traditional Greek cookies which along with tsourekia are the "trademark" of Greek Orthodox Easter. The week before Easter every family (or almost every family nowadays) is preparing koulourakia and tsourekia and this is a way of getting in the mood of these Holy days. Koulourakia — The Quintessential Greek Cookie Koulourakia (or Koulouria) are one of the most revered traditional Greek desserts. Shape as desired and brush with egg and milk mixture.

Instructions to make Easter cookies (koulourakia):

1. Cream butter and sugar.
2. Add the eggs, one at a time, and then add the milk, the orange juice and the zest.
3. In another bowl, combine all solid ingredients with half of the flour and then pour the flour mixture in the butter mixture. Add as much flour as it is needed, so as to have a soft, non-sticky dough.
4. Let the dough rest for 15 minutes, then shape the cookies as desired and bake them, 180°C for 10 to 20 minutes (it depends on their size).

Koulourakia were traditionally considered to be Easter cookies, since they would be eaten on Easter Sunday, following the Lenten fast. Today, they are considered festive cookies that can easily be found at all major Greek holiday celebrations. They are also great cookies to make for fund-raisers and for festivals. Koulourakia Paschalina are Greek Easter Traditional Cookies, which are crispy outside and soft inside, full of orange flavour. They are the perfect treat with coffee or tea.

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