Soft moustokouloura (grape must cookies). This recipe for grape molasses cookies, or Moustokouloura, is made with petimezi, a sweetener that dates back to the Bronze Age. Buy it or make it at home to create these delicious cookies that are made with olive oil and no butter, eggs, or milk. These Moustokouloura cookies are really delicious and fragrant. While baking them the sweet intense aromas of clove and cinnamon permeate the air and bring back childhood memories. Moustokouloura can be made either with fresh grape must or with petimezi, which is concentrated grape must.

As you understand fresh grape must can exist only this period of year, so petimezi is a way of preserving it. Moustokouloura (Moo-stoh_KOU_lou-rha) are Greek cookies made with Petimezi (peh-tee-MEH-zee), a concentrated syrup made of grape juice, which is used as a sweetener. "Moustokouloura", from "moustos" (grape must) and "koulouria" (cookies), are perfect for breakfast, for a snack or with a cup of coffee. They are "nistisima - Lenten", healthy, full of aroma but most of all. You can cook Soft moustokouloura (grape must cookies) using 11 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Soft moustokouloura (grape must cookies)

Prepare 800 g of cake flour.
It's 250 g of sugar.
You need 15 g of baker's ammonia.
It's 12 g of baking soda.
It's 12 g of cinnamon.
Prepare 5 g of clove.
Prepare 10 g of cocoa powder (unsweetened).
It's 150 ml of oil.
Prepare 200 ml of boiled grape must.
You need 100 ml of honey.
Prepare 180 ml of water.

Moustokouloura are traditional cookies made with local grape must and often accompanied by pekmez syrup. They are delicious cookies, very popular in Greece, and highly nutritional in terms of sugar content. These healthy sugar-free cookies are made with an ancient sweetener known as grape molasses. They're flavored with cinnamon, cloves, brandy, and orange.

Soft moustokouloura (grape must cookies) step by step

Whisk the oil, grape must, honey and the water for 5 minutes with a whisk or use a mixer until the sugar melts..
Mix the baker's ammonia, the baking soda, the cinnamon, the clove and cocoa powder in the flour..
Add the liquids to the flour. Knead until you get an incorporated mixture..
Form the moustokouloura and place them in a deep baking tray that you have lined with parchment paper. Cover with aluminum foil or if your baking tray has a lid, use it to cover it..
Bake for 15 minutes at 180 degrees in the convection element. Check on them since each oven has its own temperature..
When you take them out of the oven, let them cool and then place them in a plastic bag or a cookie jar so that they remain soft..

They take only a few minutes to make as long as you have some ready-made grape molasses at hand. The most common use of this dark-colored syrup though is for making different kinds of sweets like moustalevria, which is a grape-must pudding and moustokouloura, grape-must cookies. In another bowl add the flour, the baking powder, and mix with a spoon. These classic Greek cookies are a tasty accompaniment for your coffee or tea. They have the distinctive taste of must - which is taken from the pressed grapes before it is made into wine - and a hint of cinnamon.