Χριστίνα.....νοστιμότατα..Σε όλα το σπίτια φτιάχνουν κουραμπιέδες και μελομακάρονα για τα Χριστούγεννα.....Απίθανα....Οι κουραμπιέδες επίσης γίνονται και με βούτυρο φυτινη.....Μπράβο Χριστίνα......👋🌺💐🌺
Christine, thank you so much for your traditional recipes and for all your tricks. They truly make a difference! Your delivery is always fantastic! Love watching, learning, recreating and developing your recipes into my own because of the excellent tips and explanations you provide.
Hooray! I finally saw a utensil that I have in your kitchen, the icing sugar duster!!! But there is so much more that I want to get now that I’ve been watching you.
Some Greeks use a shovel for sugar, and a hose for olive oil..! 😅 Thanks for yet another fantastic recipe, Christine! I have all the cookbooks (Tselementes, Skoura, etc.) but nothing compares to the fun of watching your videos. Merry Christmas!
Same here, no one baked in my family. You're Snowball cookies look good, and I'm sure thinking about giving them a try. As always, Thank you Christine, and Happy Hoildays!
OMG I did this cookies on Thursday and those are the best one I have done and taste. I am like your Dad was not good at bake at all, then try to do your cookies and came out really good Thank you so much
Ηullo Christin...........Unfortunately,my mum and dad paseed away this year so ...as you know....we are officially bereaving....but I loved watching you cook these...MAYBE next year I will give it a shot.....Merry Christmas and have a Happy Name DAY.....!!!!!!
2nd video I have watched from your channel and I love it ! So glad I found you. These are one of favorite Greek cookies I have made them before only cresent shaped but really love your snowball and Xmas color take for them holiday s. I must make again and a great gift. Omg My mouth is watering 😀
Hi Christine I made your recipe kourabedes they turned absolutely delicious you could actually smell the orange as the were baking in the oven merry Christmas 🤶🎄🥂to you and your family
Thank you Chef! I have been looking for crescent-shaped almond cookies, but I think I will make your recipe instead ... they look so awesomely delicious with the orange rind and the liqueur!
I have memories of my Gram making these Christine. She would roll them into a log with her hands, pat down the top and cut them into diamond shapes. Lots and lots of icing sugar too. I like your idea of pressing an indentation into the top of your rounds. Merry Christmas:)
Totally agree on the "sugar with a shovel" comment! So funny but also true, most of the Greek shops I buy these from give you a box which a lot of icing sugar with the kourabiedes hiding in it..
Made these this afternoon, but as I had no Cointreau I used Vin Santo instead. Oh wow are they morish! Like the lightest of shortbread in texture, well at least my were. Thank you gorgeous lady for yet another delicious recipe x
Remind me of my mom’s kipferl cookie variation using hazelnuts, lemon + orange rind, bit of chopped semi sweet chocolate in the batter, shaped like moons. Otherwise, same! I’ll make these for her! She loved your show.
Hi 👋 Christine Wow 😮 those cookies 🍪 look 👀 amazing 😉 I will definitely be trying them ,I found a recipe last year but it was with regular flour so I Will be ready to try your version very soon with the cake 🍰 and pastry 🥮 flour .I am just getting ready to start with the Christmas cookies Baking for my family I like to give them as 🎁 gifts my dad loves these cookies I grew up with theses and others like sugar cookies,gingerbread cookies and biscotti.oh i need to tell you a few years ago you were on Marilyn Dennis show and you made the chocolate 🍫 orange 🍊 cookie baked with olive oil oh they have pecan nuts too . I make them for my dad for Christmas 🎄 every year he just loves them and last year I tried the chocolate biscotti with olive oil to both coolies are amazing 😉 I thank you 🙏 soooo much for the lovely 😊 recipes . P.S. take care enjoy 😊 the rest of your weekend. Xoxoxo Mary.
Thanks so much for letting me know about all your cookie adventures using my olive oil recipes. I’m so glad that your dad loves the chocolate biscotti in particular because they are my absolute favs ! Merry Christmas
@@ChristineCushing HI 👋 Christine I am getting ready to make them today they are so good 😊. You are very welcome 🙏. I hope that you and your family have a Merry Christmas 🎄 too take care.Always a fan I just love 💕 your recipe s . Mary.
Ah ha! So that's what my mom's "Almond Cookies" were. Her parents were from Tinos, but she grew up above their candy shop after they immigrated to lovely Newark, New Jersey and was never allowed to learn or speak Greek back in the day. So, it's just ground toasted almonds baked into butter, "icing sugar" (you are like SO Canadian, lol -- we call it "powdered" in California) and what she called "good" (cake) flour, with orange zest. She would press a candied whole almond on each one before covering it with powdered/icing/confectioner's sugar, so that's why my siblings and I called them almond cookies without knowing that they're baked with actual ground almonds. I'd been trying to reproduce them by making sugar cookies with almond extract and that damned whole almond to no avail. Mom passed >20 years ago and I've since taken to the kitchen, trying to deconstruct some of her mysterious Greek dishes that she learned from her parents. By the time I was born, they had moved to suburban Northern California, where we had every fruit and nut tree you can imagine right in our back yard in the 1960's. Whereas us kids wanted only Oreo cookies and McDonald's hamburgers like our friends had, we were served what was local and fresh (= cheap = resourceful = Greek!). I now know that lemon was in everything, and delicious chicken dishes always had figs. Who knew? Still can't recreate Yiaya's rice pudding or her cake made with wine. BTW, after watching your show on Moussaka, I realized why my working mother never made it but always ordered it whenever we went to a Greek restaurant, hehehe. Might give it a try... when I am retired. Thanks so much for sharing your work. Kala Christougenna!
This is like the thimble cookies we make. A little deeper thumb print and a wee dab of jam (plum or raspberry) after a very light dusting of icing sugar
Hi! Delicious looking cookies. I will definitely be making them this Christmas. Could you tell me the size/model of the Kitchenaid you are using in the video please?
Would you happen to have the Greek Recipe for Apricot Jam Bar Cookies? My Mom got the recipe from one of her clients she use to nurse years ago, but the recipe has been misplaced! Watching you make these almond snowball cookies reminded me of those apricot jam bars! Maybe make 2 batches and sandwich the jam in the middle?
Those look delicious and the music was perfect!! Can we freeze raw preformed Kourabiedes for future baking or is it better to bake an entire batch and freeze the cooked version? I'm asking because I love the smell of baking!!
You can do either . I have not frozen this particular dough preformed but even if you get a bit more cracking you will cover with the icing sugar anyway. Thank you
My yiayia used to make these with my mother. Now mom makes them on her own, at 87 yrs young! Warning: If you eat too many of these delectable goodies, your ass assumes the same shape as these cookies. Just sayin'! Merry Christmas to you and your family.
Yum! These are some of my favourite cookies. The U. S. Version are called Pecan Sandies. We replace almonds with pecans. I enjoy you teaching your viewers Greek words too.
That's a nice version of kourabiethes, but (don't get it as a negative comment) we always sprinkle them with neroli water, prior to dusting with icing sugar.
No problem Olga. On a computer you click on Show More below in the video description. On a mobile device you press the down arrow on the bottom right corner below video. Thank you and Merry Christmas
@@ChristineCushing Thank you! The day got away from me, so I'm shooting for tomorrow! I'm sure they'll be as wonderful as my yiayia used to make! Love your recipes, I've tried many and they all turn out so wonderfully! Thanks so much for sharing!
I would go with either Samos Muscat with gorgeous honey notes and orange ( I love this dessert wine ) another option is Mavro Daphne , sticking with the Greek dessert wine theme that would be good.
Why don’t people use hand crank small flour sifters anymore? Most I see use sieves/screens they shake it through, gets flour dust everywhere. I’ll continue with my hand sifter 🙌🏻
Χριστίνα.....νοστιμότατα..Σε όλα το σπίτια φτιάχνουν κουραμπιέδες και μελομακάρονα για τα Χριστούγεννα.....Απίθανα....Οι κουραμπιέδες επίσης γίνονται και με βούτυρο φυτινη.....Μπράβο Χριστίνα......👋🌺💐🌺
I just made kourabedes for the first time last night!!! Im so proud of myself!!! Opa merry Christmas 🎅 🎄 ❤
Now all we need is the melomakarona recipe and we have the Greek X-mas down!! Nice Kourabiedes :) I can never get enough of them!
I love these so so so so much! They are so delicious.
Christine, thank you so much for your traditional recipes and for all your tricks. They truly make a difference! Your delivery is always fantastic! Love watching, learning, recreating and developing your recipes into my own because of the excellent tips and explanations you provide.
My pleasure! That’s exactly why I give you all these technical bits . I love that you are making the recipe your own.
They’re definitely on my Christmas list to make😋
Those look amazing! Thanks for sharing the recipe.
With pleasure
Hooray! I finally saw a utensil that I have in your kitchen, the icing sugar duster!!! But there is so much more that I want to get now that I’ve been watching you.
These look delectable....and so easy!!!! Definitely will add to my cookie repertoire
Glad they made the playlist. ! Happy baking
Couldn’t agree more, toasting almonds makes a big difference
It really does. Thank you
Thanks Christine! I just finished making these with you along side❤️ They are delicious. Thanks for baking with me🤣
The most delicious cookies ever🙏❤️❤️😋😋😋😋
Some Greeks use a shovel for sugar, and a hose for olive oil..! 😅 Thanks for yet another fantastic recipe, Christine! I have all the cookbooks (Tselementes, Skoura, etc.) but nothing compares to the fun of watching your videos. Merry Christmas!
Haha ! Shovel is so right. I’m so glad you enjoy my video. I hope you had a wonderful Christmas !
Love the nod to Devo! Beautiful cookies from a beautiful Chef!
Haha ! Glad you picked up on that
I love this recipe as well as the Nutcracker playing in the background! ❤️❤️🎼Thank you Christine! Merry Christmas! 🙏🤗🤗❤️⛄️❄️🎄
So glad you enjoyed it. Merry Christmas
@@ChristineCushing thank you! 🙏🤗
I’m going to make these, yummy! Merry Christmas! 🎄
Hope you do ! 🎄🎅🏻
They look so good! I'm going to try to bake some of these! Thank you for the recipe!
With pleasure !
Beautiful biscuits,and a beautiful cook too.
Thank you so much
So much talent ! 😍
my mouth is watering looking at this!!
Yes ! Thanks for watching
I love your recipes, Christine. Thank you! Gabriella
You are so welcome!
Thank You, and Merry Christmas.
My pleasure . Merry Christmas
Same here, no one baked in my family. You're Snowball cookies look good, and I'm sure thinking about giving them a try. As always, Thank you Christine, and Happy Hoildays!
My pleasure and hope you try them . Have a great holiday season
I love your recipe. I’m making it your way next time. I just subscribed and look forward to watching more videos! Thank you! ❄️
Thank you !
I love them loaded in icing sugar
Making these today. I love citrus in my baking. Thank you for sharing this recipe!
Very exciting ! I love citrus everywhere , it seems 😀
Look delicious 🤤 cookies look good too
definately going to do this recipe next week. Have pecans and walnuts so we're going with them but that will be the only change. Thank you as always.
Ok sounds great. They will be amazing.
OMG I did this cookies on Thursday and those are the best one I have done and taste. I am like your Dad was not good at bake at all, then try to do your cookies and came out really good
Thank you so much
I'm so glad you tried and loved them! I can totally relate to the renegade baker mentality also Thank you for watching
Ηullo Christin...........Unfortunately,my mum and dad paseed away this year so ...as you know....we are officially bereaving....but I loved watching you cook these...MAYBE next year I will give it a shot.....Merry Christmas and have a Happy Name DAY.....!!!!!!
I’m so sorry to hear that you lost both your parents this year. Yes maybe next year. Thank you for the name day wishes also. Here’s to a healthy 2022
Hi very good and delicious I love cookies cake pie and so on.So for me it's very interesting. Keep on doing these recipes
Fenomenal. 💙💖😍🤩😁👌👌👍👍👍👍
Thank you
Merci Christine 🇫🇷🇬🇷
❤️❤️❤️ from Réunion island 🇷🇪
Je vous en prie !
A la prochaine
2nd video I have watched from your channel and I love it ! So glad I found you. These are one of favorite Greek cookies I have made them before only cresent shaped but really love your snowball and Xmas color take for them holiday s. I must make again and a great gift. Omg My mouth is watering 😀
Thank you for letting me know. I will be making them this week! Wishing you a Merry Christmas
Yassou Kristina from FRAGILÉ Detroit! Freezing here! I'm drooling again! Kalla Xristougenna to you and your family! Thank You Chef!
Hopefully these kourabiedes sent a bit of warmth your way. Merry Christmas
Hi Christine
I made your recipe kourabedes they turned absolutely delicious you could actually smell the orange as the were baking in the oven merry Christmas 🤶🎄🥂to you and your family
That so amazing ! Merry Christmas to you also
Thanks for lovely recipe... Will try them tomorrow ...
Χρονια πολλα για τη γιορτη σου ... Καλες γιορτες xx
Thank you so much ! You will really love them. Καλές γιορτές !
@@ChristineCushing thank you .
Thank you Chef! I have been looking for crescent-shaped almond cookies, but I think I will make your recipe instead ... they look so awesomely delicious with the orange rind and the liqueur!
So great. I think you will really love them.
@@ChristineCushing Opa!
It’s that time of the year and almond cookies are here, I’m making espresso right now
I have memories of my Gram making these Christine. She would roll them into a log with her hands, pat down the top and cut them into diamond shapes. Lots and lots of icing sugar too. I like your idea of pressing an indentation into the top of your rounds. Merry Christmas:)
So glad you have memories of your grandma making them ! Merry Christmas to you also 🎄
Totally agree on the "sugar with a shovel" comment! So funny but also true, most of the Greek shops I buy these from give you a box which a lot of icing sugar with the kourabiedes hiding in it..
Haha ! So true isn’t it ? They should sell
Them with little shovels so you can search for the hidden cookies 😂
Made these this afternoon, but as I had no Cointreau I used Vin Santo instead. Oh wow are they morish! Like the lightest of shortbread in texture, well at least my were. Thank you gorgeous lady for yet another delicious recipe x
So glad they were amazing. Vin Santo is a great sub.
Remind me of my mom’s kipferl cookie variation using hazelnuts, lemon + orange rind, bit of chopped semi sweet chocolate in the batter, shaped like moons. Otherwise, same! I’ll make these for her! She loved your show.
Thank you so much ! I know she will enjoy them.
Thank you so much! Going to try pecans and orange, as well as macadamias and lemon. Ho ho ho!!! Kala Christougena!
Thank you so much. Merry Christmas to you also 🎅🏻🎄
YiaYia always put clove in the middle prior to baking
Ohh that would be good. Love cloves
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Hi 👋 Christine
Wow 😮 those cookies 🍪 look 👀 amazing 😉 I will definitely be trying them ,I found a recipe last year but it was with regular flour so I
Will be ready to try your version very soon with the cake 🍰 and pastry 🥮 flour .I am just getting ready to start with the Christmas cookies
Baking for my family I like to give them as 🎁 gifts my dad loves these cookies I grew up with theses and others like sugar cookies,gingerbread cookies and biscotti.oh i need to tell you a few years ago you were on Marilyn Dennis show and you made the chocolate 🍫 orange 🍊 cookie baked with olive oil oh they have pecan nuts too . I make them for my dad for Christmas 🎄 every year he just loves them and last year I tried the chocolate biscotti with olive oil to both coolies are amazing 😉 I thank you 🙏 soooo much for the lovely 😊 recipes .
P.S. take care enjoy 😊 the rest of your weekend. Xoxoxo
Mary.
Thanks so much for letting me know about all your cookie adventures using my olive oil recipes. I’m so glad that your dad loves the chocolate biscotti in particular because they are my absolute favs ! Merry Christmas
@@ChristineCushing HI 👋 Christine
I am getting ready to make them today they are so good 😊. You are very welcome 🙏. I hope that you and your family have a
Merry Christmas 🎄 too take care.Always a fan I just love 💕 your recipe s .
Mary.
Yum 😋
They look delicious parapholi Oreo😊❤
Have you ever made yogurt, Ravani or Bougatsa? Your list of videos is extremely impressive! I was in heaven reading everything!
Καλά Χριστούγεννά υπέροχη φαίνονται
Ευχάριστο ! Merry Christmas
My Yiayias recipe has eggs and vanilla . This is very different . Looks good
Mouthwatering mounds
Ah ha! So that's what my mom's "Almond Cookies" were. Her parents were from Tinos, but she grew up above their candy shop after they immigrated to lovely Newark, New Jersey and was never allowed to learn or speak Greek back in the day. So, it's just ground toasted almonds baked into butter, "icing sugar" (you are like SO Canadian, lol -- we call it "powdered" in California) and what she called "good" (cake) flour, with orange zest. She would press a candied whole almond on each one before covering it with powdered/icing/confectioner's sugar, so that's why my siblings and I called them almond cookies without knowing that they're baked with actual ground almonds. I'd been trying to reproduce them by making sugar cookies with almond extract and that damned whole almond to no avail. Mom passed >20 years ago and I've since taken to the kitchen, trying to deconstruct some of her mysterious Greek dishes that she learned from her parents. By the time I was born, they had moved to suburban Northern California, where we had every fruit and nut tree you can imagine right in our back yard in the 1960's. Whereas us kids wanted only Oreo cookies and McDonald's hamburgers like our friends had, we were served what was local and fresh (= cheap = resourceful = Greek!). I now know that lemon was in everything, and delicious chicken dishes always had figs. Who knew? Still can't recreate Yiaya's rice pudding or her cake made with wine. BTW, after watching your show on Moussaka, I realized why my working mother never made it but always ordered it whenever we went to a Greek restaurant, hehehe. Might give it a try... when I am retired. Thanks so much for sharing your work. Kala Christougenna!
That’s one huge food processor 😎
So impressed you did this is a red top and not getting any flour or icing sugar on it 😂
Haha. It’s so not like me to not get sugar all over anything I’m wearing. 👏👏
This is like the thimble cookies we make. A little deeper thumb print and a wee dab of jam (plum or raspberry) after a very light dusting of icing sugar
There are so many similar cookies each with their own little magic. Thanks for watching
Hi! Delicious looking cookies. I will definitely be making them this Christmas. Could you tell me the size/model of the Kitchenaid you are using in the video please?
Thank you . KitchenAid is 7Q pro. Hope you try the cookies
Would you happen to have the Greek Recipe for Apricot Jam Bar Cookies? My Mom got the recipe from one of her clients she use to nurse years ago, but the recipe has been misplaced! Watching you make these almond snowball cookies reminded me of those apricot jam bars! Maybe make 2 batches and sandwich the jam in the middle?
I have never come across this apricot bar cookie, so I'm sorry I cannot help you with you with this one. Thank you
Those look delicious and the music was perfect!! Can we freeze raw preformed Kourabiedes for future baking or is it better to bake an entire batch and freeze the cooked version? I'm asking because I love the smell of baking!!
You can do either . I have not frozen this particular dough preformed but even if you get a bit more cracking you will cover with the icing sugar anyway. Thank you
@@ChristineCushing Thank you!!
Lovely recipe, will try soon. What is the brand of that food processor you are using? Thank you!
It is a Breviile processor. I hope you try them 👏👏
@@ChristineCushing I just finished baking them. They are delicious! This recipe is a keeper for sure. Thanks again Christine!
My yiayia used to make these with my mother. Now mom makes them on her own, at 87 yrs young! Warning: If you eat too many of these delectable goodies, your ass assumes the same shape as these cookies. Just sayin'! Merry Christmas to you and your family.
Yum! These are some of my favourite cookies. The U. S. Version are called Pecan Sandies. We replace almonds with pecans. I enjoy you teaching your viewers Greek words too.
Thanks so much. I have heard of the American version with pecans , although have never tried them.
@@ChristineCushing they are addicting, as I'm sure yours are. I can not wait to make them.
That's a nice version of kourabiethes, but (don't get it as a negative comment) we always sprinkle them with neroli water, prior to dusting with icing sugar.
🇬🇷 Efgaristo poli 😘
Ν’ασε καλά ! You are most welcome
You should try the cookies with walnuts.
Hi Christine, I cannot find the measurements for the recipe, how can I find it, sorry Olga
No problem Olga. On a computer you click on Show More below in the video description. On a mobile device you press the down arrow on the bottom right corner below video. Thank you and Merry Christmas
Planning on making these tomorrow! I just realized tho' that the recipe calls for almonds with skin on? So the skins are left on when you grind them?
Yes they are toasted and skins left on . I hope you love them. Thanks
@@ChristineCushing Thank you! The day got away from me, so I'm shooting for tomorrow! I'm sure they'll be as wonderful as my yiayia used to make! Love your recipes, I've tried many and they all turn out so wonderfully! Thanks so much for sharing!
My second favorite Greek cookie! Are you calling powdered sugar, “icing sugar”?
Yes icing sugar is powdered sugar. In the UK they call it confectioners ..all the same
Can you freeze them? If yes with or without the powdered sugar?
You can freeze them without sugar . Thaw completely and then dust or shovel with the sugar 😀
👍Did you add baking powder?
To your knowledge, which wine pairs well with Kourabiedes?
I would go with either Samos Muscat with gorgeous honey notes and orange ( I love this dessert wine ) another option is Mavro Daphne , sticking with the Greek dessert wine theme that would be good.
Could you please add the exact ingredients and measurements
Why don’t people use hand crank small flour sifters anymore? Most I see use sieves/screens they shake it through, gets flour dust everywhere. I’ll continue with my hand sifter 🙌🏻
I'll have a Baker's dozen with 5 Greek Coffees to go please.
Please proceed to the drive thru window 🎅🏻
@@ChristineCushing Where is the Drive Thru Window Parakallo?
What are measure ments to use
The full recipe is below the video description. Click Show More and the screen will expand. Enjoy
What high quality vanilla do you use?
It is a paste Nielsen -Massey brand. Hope this helps.
Thank you!
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Not whisky child subsitite??
You can just double the orange zest. But really the alcoholic evaporates in the bakes. Thank you and hope you try it.
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I don’t want to be rude,there is too much talking.Happy holidays.