For the dough (32 large cookies, 64 small)
250g butter, room temperature
125ml yogurt, room temperature
1 medium organic egg
1 teaspoon lemon zest, optional
60g icing sugar (plus extra)
60g cornstarch
½ teaspoon baking powder
400g flour
For the filling
7 medium apples, grated
2 tablespoons caster sugar
1 teaspoon cinnamon
90g walnuts, crumbled
For Eid al-Fitr, we're baking traditional Turkish apple-walnut cookies. In Turkish, these cookies are called Elmali Kurabiye. First, you make the filling of grated apples and walnuts. Then you make the dough, and then the cookies go straight into the oven. These cookies taste most delicous if you dust them with icing sugar after cooling and eat them immediately (we think ;)))
How to make Elmali Kurabiye
Peel the apples and rmove the cores.
Grate the peeled apples.
Put the apple into a pan and add the sugar.
Chop the walnuts finely.
Add the cinnamon and walnut.
Let it simmer for 2 minutes, with the apple.
Stir the mixture to combine.
Remove the pan from the heat, transfer the mixture to a bowl and let it cool completely
While the filling cools you make the dough
Put butter, egg, yogurt and sugar in the mixer.
Add the flour, cornstarch and baking powder.
Put in the dough hook and mix for 10 minutes.
Tip the dough on the baking mat and knead it briefly by hand.
Divide the dough in equal balls, weigh them.
Flatten de balls with a plate.
Cut the dough perfectly round.
Cut the circle in four triangles.
Place filling on the triangles.
Roll up the triangles neatly.
Place them with open side down.
Then move the biscuits to a wire rack, to cool completely.
Sprinkle the apple-walnut biscuits generously with icing sugar.
Eid Mubarak! - we're wishing you a wonderful Eid!