Recipe
Medenjaci: Easy Serbian Honey Cookie Recipe From My Family's Kitchen
A childhood experience nearly every immigrant and first-generation American can relate to is being asked "What's that?" while kids point at your food. Often, it can be humiliating--a clear sign that stand out from the other American children. Personally, I learned to embrace this as I grew up, and enthusiastically passed my food around the lunch table. A fan favorite was my family's honey cookie recipe: medenjaci.
The taste is somewhat like gingerbread, but less strong. They go well with milk, and are bite-sized. If you're looking to try some new dessert flavors this fall, these are the cookies for you! Best of all, they can be prepared relatively quickly and easily with ingredients you can find around your house.
Medenjaci (Serbian Honey Cookies)
- Prep Time: 20 mins
- Cook Time: 13 mins
- Total Time: 33 mins
- Servings: 50
Ingredients
- 600g flour
- 1 tbsp baking powder
- 2 eggs
- 150g butter
- 200g granulated sugar
- 200g melted honey
- 2 tbsp cinnamon
- 1 tbsp vanilla extract
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It's worth noting that your cookies don't need to be perfect. Growing up, my family rarely used precise measurements when baking. Adding slightly too much of one ingredient or too little of another won't dramatically affect the taste or texture of the cookies. For me, there was nothing like the feeling of getting these cookies shipped from home to my dorm--and they were certainly a fan favorite within my hall.