Traditional honey cookies recipe:
700 g flour
250 g honey
3 eggs
3 teaspoons baking soda
3 teaspoons cinnamon
100 g sugar
100 g margarine
Servings: 6 servings
Preparation time: 5 minutes
Resting time: 30 minutes
Baking time: 12 minutes
Traditional honey cookies recipe:
24.7 oz flour
8.8 oz honey
3 eggs
3 teaspoons baking soda
3 teaspoons cinnamon
3.53 oz sugar
3.53 oz margarine
Servings: 6 servings
Preparation time: 5 minutes
Resting time: 30 minutes
Baking time: 12 minutes
Hello my little buzzy helpers! Today we are once again grabbing deep into the tradition bowl of hidden cookie recipes! We fought hard and we fought well to reveal this recipe to you, my friends! When you try this sweet, yet soft and tender, traditional honey cookies recipe, you won’t get enough of them! May the honey force be with you! Now buzz right into the recipe!
Where do traditional honey cookies come from?
Eastern Europe is full of honey cookies! They come in different shapes and sizes, but most notably is the nice-fluffy-roundish form that is traditional present in the whole area. They are called “Medenjaci” which resembles to “made from honey”. They are made in wintertime, especially during the Christmas holidays! Because nothing warms the heart better than a glass of mulled wine and this traditional honey cookies!
How long do they last?
Traditional honey cookies are made to last very long! If you do not eat them right away (which somehow always happens), they are very long lasting. Take your favorite cookie bowl, seal them properly, and they can last a decade! We still have the first my grandma made for me (just kiddin, we ate them all because we are insatiable little cookie monsters, yep, yep).
What honey to use?
Any honey-type is suitable, but we use mostly wildflower honey! Let it be (my Beatles) organic and full of flavor, not the two-bucks-Chinese-sugar-honey-type! The flavor of honey is of utter importance for the flavor of traditional honey cookies, therefore don’t be cheap on the quality of your honey, be like a real delish-grizzly-bear, search for the best honey (and don’t get stung)!
How to make traditional honey cookies?
This one is really easy, just a few quick steps and they are done! This one is so easy that even my grandpa made them! Here are the few steps to traditional honey cookies heaven!
1. Take a large bowl and mix all the ingredients together! Start with the flour and baking soda! Mix it together so the baking soda arranges evenly in the mixture. Then add the eggs, honey, sugar and cinnamon. In the end add the margarine (cut it before into smaller chunks, so you can knead it easier)!
2. Knead everything to a nice and shiny dough! Seal your bowl (so the dough doesn’t dry out) and leave it to rest for 30 minutes in the fridge!
3. Take out your baking tray! Make little balls of honey cookie dough and place them on a baking paper (with little distance between them!)
4. Now the most important thing, or as we call it, “the portal to traditional honey cookie heaven”, the baking time! We bake them exactly 12 minutes (depending on your oven maybe one or two minutes more) at 180 °C! They need to be completely baked, but yet soft and tender!
This is our first recipe of the series of secret Christmas cookie recipes around the world! Now you learned how to make traditional honey cookies (now you are like my grandpa, congratulations)! You can share it or keep it secret for centuries! The decision is yours to make, will you be the green bitter Grinch or Santa’s Little Helper? Ho, Ho, Ho !?
