Koulourakias

Preheat the oven to 375 F.

Combine flour and baking powder.

In a separate bowl, cream the butter and sugar, then slowly add the beaten eggs and the orange zest. Add the flour/baking powder mixture slowly. You will get a soft dough.

Shape the cookies by taking sections and rolling them first into a ball (walnut-sized) and then out into ropes that you can braid together or twist into a circle or spiral or, you know, really anything.

I put mine on foil on a cookie sheet, then brushed the tops with some beaten egg and baked for around twenty minutes, until the cookies were golden!

Now, the twenty minutes gets the cookies to be a bit harder, but that was what I was going for. These are terrific dunking cookies. If you’d like them to be softer, pull them out at around the fifteen-minute mark or so—give it a go! Play!

Feel free to add vanilla, which will make it a bit sweeter, or any other flavoring or zest. Some traditional cookies are brushed with water or egg white and then have sesame seeds sprinkled on top. That’s also brilliant, they taste delicious. This is a very basic version.