Medenjaci - croatian honey spice cookies
Croatian Honey Spice Cookies, also known as Medenjaci, are a delightful dessert with a touch of ground cinnamon and honey. This recipe serves 45 and covers 3% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. Perfect for holiday baking and fits a traditional diet.
Ingredients
butter
250 g
little demerara sugar
180 g
runny honey
250 g
free range eggs
3
baking soda
1 tsp
ground cinnamon
2 tsps
ground cloves
0.5 tsps
ground nutmeg
0.5 tsps
ground ginger
0.5 tsps
cake flour
300 g
walnuts
10
Method
- Heat the butter, sugar and honey, stirring constantly, over low heat until the sugar and butter have melted completely. Set aside to cool (10 minutes).
- Lightly whisk the eggs.
- Mix and combine baking soda, spices, all-purpose, whole wheat and cake flour.
- Add the lightly beaten eggs, flour and spices to the melted honey, sugar and butter mixture.
- Mix and combine to obtain smooth and soft dough.
- Cover the dough with foil and leave in a cool place for 1-3 days.
- Then divide and roll the dough into long rolls 1.5 cm in diameter, cut them into smaller rolls. Shape each roll into a walnut sized ball.
- Place the dough balls, few centimetres apart from each other, on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper or a silicon sheet. Insert, only halfway, a quarter of the walnut kernel at the top of each cookie.
- Bake the cookies in the oven at 190C for 10-12 minutes. Cool and store in an airtight container.
Nutrition:
Carbs
21 g
Fat
5 g
Protein
2 g
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