Thursday, March 5, 2009

cookies with almond, eggs & sugar (fekkas)


Hello everybody, today we will prepare the delicious Moroccan cookies with almond, eggs & sugar, the Moroccan name for this cookies is Fekkas,

Ingredients:

6 eggs
1 Bowl oil and butter mixed,
1 large bowl of caster sugar,
1 large bowl of a mixed crushed almond, raisins & sesame seeds.
2 packets baking powder.
The peel of 1lemon,
1 kg flour,
Little salt
1 eggs for a decoration,

Method:

In a big bowl combine eggs, oil, butter, sugar, crushed almond, raisins, sesame seeds, salt, and baking powder. Add gradually flour while stirring with fingers, knead well.
Divide dough into large balls, roll and place into greased oven try, brush with eggs. Bake them for 25 mins, after that place them on a cloth and cover them with another cloth with a towel over it, or you can put them on the fridge for 1 night. In the next morning cut the rolls into very thin slices. Place once again into oven tray and brown them for 15 to 20 min in the oven.

Preserve fakkas in hermetic box to keep them crispy.

Enjoy.

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