Cookies
200g flour
250g butter
65 ml milk
1 tablespoon dry yeast
1 tablespoon caster sugar
1 teaspoon cinnamon
Filling
2 tablespoons flour
3 tablespoons ghee or butter
200g honey
2 teaspoons sesame seeds
1 cup walnuts
icing sugar, to taste
No Eid al Fitr celebration without cookies, that's why we bake Egyptian Kahk cookies today. With this recipe you bake about 24 cookies, depending on how big you make them. The cookies are filled with walnuts, sesame seeds and honey, delicious!
How to make Kahk cookies
Weigh and measure all ingredients.
Stir the cinnamon into the flour.
Melt the butter until it bubbles.
Add the hot butter slowly to the flour mixture and keep stirring.
Keep stirring until you have coarse crumbs.
Cover the crumbs and set the bowl aside for 15 minutes.
Dissolve the sugar and yeast in the milk.
Add the milk mixture gradually to the crumbs and knead the mixture by hand into a supple dough
Place the dough in a clean bowl.
Cover it and let the dough rest for 1 hour.
Meanwhile chop the walnuts.
How to make the filling
Melt the butter until it bubbles.
Firmly beat in the flour.
Beat until the mixture browns.
Remove the pan from the heat.
Add the sesame seeds, honey and walnuts, put the mixture back on low heat and stir until it thickens
Allow the filling to cool. then roll it into balls.
Roll the dough into balls, press in your thumb.
Press the filling balls into the holes.
Preheat the oven to 175°C
Roll the balls until closed, flatten using a fork.
Bake the biscuits in 15 minutes golden.
Allow to cool on a wire rack.
Sift icing sugar over the Kahk biscuits.
Serve the biscuits with miny tea and honey.
Wishing you a happy Eid!