Medeni Kurabii (Honey Cookies)

Recipes: A Quintet of Cuisines, p. 129 (Bulgaria)

8 tablespoons unsalted butter (1 quarter-pound stick, melted but not browned, and cooled)

¼ cup honey

¼ cup sugar

1 teaspoon baking soda

1 egg yolk

1 cup all-purpose flour

½ cup coarse white decorating sugar

Preheat the oven to 350F. In a deep bowl, combine the cooled butter, honey, sugar, soda, and egg yolk, and beat vigorously with a wooden spoon until the ingredients are thoroughly mixed. Sift in the flour, a few tablespoons at a time, beating well after each addition. The dough should be just firm enough to be gathered into a soft but compact ball.

This gadget comes in very handy for making cookie balls.


To shape each cookie, pinch off about 1 rounded teaspoon of dough and, on a heavily floured surface, roll it with the palm of your hand into a ball about 1 inch in diameter. Dip the top of the ball into the coarse sugar and place it sugared side up on a large ungreased baking sheet. 

They said "coarse decorating sugar" and I read "sprinkles."


Make similar balls of the remaining dough and arrange them about ½ inch apart on the baking sheet. Bake in the middle of the oven for about 10 minutes, or until the cookies are delicately browned. With a metal spatula, transfer the cookies to a wire cake rack to cool. Serve them at once or store them in a tightly covered jar or tin.

Happy sprinkle cookies!

My Rating: 3/5 "These have the advantage of being lower sugar than a lot of cookies. That said, there's no real gusto to them. They came out a little dry and the flavor was very mild. Then again, anything with sugar on top can't be all that bad."

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