Festive Baking


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~ Breads, pastries and sweets play an important role in the celebration of Greek Holidays.
~ Greek custom has it for years, every Greek Orthodox to bake certain breads, pastries and sweets for religious festivals, ceremonies and fast days, representing the Church’s significance in their lives.
~ Traditionally, particular breads and pastries are closely associated with several special occasions like Fasting Days, Easter, Christmas and New Years.
~ Any of the following recipes for Breads, Pastries and Sweets listed below will surely please your family and friends.

~ Biskota me Meli (Greek Honey Cookies)

~ Christopsomo (Christ Bread or Christmas Bread)

~ Diples (Turnovers)

~ Flaounes (Easter Cheese Pastries)

~ Glystarkes (Sweet Sesame Rusk’s)

~ Koulourakia (Greek Cookies)

~ Kourabiethes (Brandy Sugar Biscuits)

~ Kremithopsomo (Greek Onion Bread)

~ Κυπριακες Χοργιατικες Eλιοπιτες (Cypriot Black Olive Pies)

~ Lagana (Greek Lenten Bread)

~ Lokoumathes (Cyprus Doughnuts)

~ Melomakarona me Alevri (Honey Cookies with Flour)

~ Melomakarona me Simigthali (Honey Cookies with Samolina)

~ Moustokouloura (Mousto Cookies)

~ Paximadia Nistisima (Lenten Biscuits)

~ Riganopsomo (Oregano Cheese Bread)

~ Spitiko Filo (Homemade Filo Pastry)

~ Spitikes Pites (Homemade Pita Bread)

~ Spitiko Psomi (Greek Homemade Bread)

~ Tsourekia (Greek Sweet Bread)

~ Vasilopita (New Yaers Cake)

~ More to come: