Greek Christmas Sugar Buns

Another one of Greece’s traditional Christmas dessert is sugar buns!! We call them "kourabiedes".

Ingredients:

600 gr. Milk butter

250 gr. Almonds

½ tsp baking powder

1 pinch of vanilla

220 gr. Confectioner’s sugar

50 gr. Black rum

1.200 gr flour

Confectioner’s sugar for topping

Preparation:

We beat the butter with the sugar in high speed for about 20 mins.(The more we beat them the best the mixture will become).

We roughly chop the almonds after we have baked them at 160 C until they become golden and have spread them on baking paper.

We add the flour, the baking and the vanilla in the beaten butter slowly. We add the almonds and then the rum. We keep beating for another 10 mins. We mould the buns in round shapes of 3mm diameter.

We bake in preheated oven at 170 C for 15-20 mins. We take them out of the oven, let them cool very well and deepen them in the sugar.

We place them in a large plate in a pile and sprinkle with confectioner’s sugar.

Tip: Be careful to use good quality butter!! It makes all the difference!! ;-)

Hope you enjoy them!!

Good luck!!

Xoxo

B.