Kurabiye ~ Turkey

[Twitchin Kitten]

These are wonderful cookies that are delicious dunked in coffee.

Kurabiye

Preheat the oven to 375° F

Ingredients:

• 1 stick unsalted butter, room temp.
  
• 1/2 cup confectioners sugar
  
• 2 eggs, room temp
  
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
  
• 2 cups all purpose flour
  
• 1 tsp. baking powder
  

Glaze:
1 egg yolk whisked with 1 tsp water

Cream the powdered sugar and vanilla with butter.
Add the eggs and mix then slowly add the flour and baking powder. Make sure everything is well mixed.

The dough should be soft.

Divide the dough in 16-18 pieces.

First roll each piece into a long stick (about a foot long) and then lift and wind into some kind of braid. This is easy to do - Take the 'stick' and lift it by each end, gently - then let the middle fall onto the surface and twist the ends one over the other.
As you get the knack for manipulating dough, you'll soon be doing this with a flick of the wrist!

Put parchment paper on an oven tray and arrange the cookies on it.
Egg wash the tops, then sprinkle some *sesame seeds on the tops. (sesame seeds optional)

Bake for about 25 minutes or until the tops take a golden color.
Place on a  wire rack to cool down.

These remind me of the cookies we would get as kids in the Arab grocery when they came in fresh.

Makes 16-18 Kurabiye

Edit 6/17/2010: I baked these again today and swapped out the image I nicked off the internet with my own cookies.