Kaak el Abbas
Recipe: #16697
January 13, 2015
Categories: Desserts, Cookies, Shaped, Nuts/Seeds, Middle Eastern, Budget-Friendly, Christmas, Entertaining, Fall/Autumn, Winter, Oven Bake, Vegetarian, Make it from scratch, Flour, Kosher Dairy more
"A specialty shaped Lebanese cookie with spices, yeast and baking powder"
Original recipe yields 8 servings
Ingredients
Nutritional
- Serving Size: 1 (168.1 g)
- Calories 619.8
- Total Fat - 31.4 g
- Saturated Fat - 5.1 g
- Cholesterol - 5.1 mg
- Sodium - 98.4 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 76 g
- Dietary Fiber - 4 g
- Sugars - 27.7 g
- Protein - 10.6 g
- Calcium - 286.1 mg
- Iron - 3.8 mg
- Vitamin C - 0.1 mg
- Thiamin - 0.2 mg
Step by Step Method
Step 1
Combine the flour and the yeast, baking powder, spices and sesame.
Step 2
Dissolve the sugar and turmeric in the milk.
Step 3
Add the olive oil to the flour mixture and rub together or mix till the flour mixture is moistened.
Step 4
Add the milk and combine. Add more milk if needed.
Step 5
Transfer the dough to a bowl and let it rest overnight.
Step 6
Break small even-sized pieces of dough and either use a mold previously greased and floured or roll out into large 4 inch rounds, and decorate by hand.
Step 7
Bake in a preheated 350F for about 15 minutes or until golden.
Tips & Variations
No special items needed.
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