Recipe: Delicious Kahk (Egyptian Shortbread)

Kahk (Egyptian Shortbread). Kahk (Egyptian Shortbread) Recipe by Sally Ammar. Egyptian family used to gather at the end of Ramadan holly month to make kahk.also kahk is made at egyptian christian celebrations &egyptian weddings. And no Egyptian feast is complete without Kahk.

Find the full recipe for Egyptian Stuffed Shortbread Cookie. Brenda Abdelall, the founder of midEats, shares tips for preparing her favorite cookie recipe, kahk, an Egyptian-style shortbread. Umm Ali Qatayef Kahk Basbousa Harisa Kanafeh Egyptian Meshabek Zalabia or Lockmet el-Qady Mahalabiya, Goulash. You can have Kahk (Egyptian Shortbread) using 7 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Kahk (Egyptian Shortbread)

You need 2/3 of cups- Unsalted butter.
You need 1/2 cup of vegetable oil.
It's 5 1/2 cups of All purpose flour.
It's 1 1/2 tsp of Instant yeast.
You need 1 tsp of Sugar.
It's 150 ml of water - lukewarm.
It's of Powdered sugar.

Egypt is famous for its sweets and desserts since ancient times. Kahk Cookies are eaten in Egypt for the end of Ramadan holiday called Eid'l Fitr. They're also eaten for Easter and Christmas in Egypt and are sometimes given to newlyweds the day after the wedding. Egyptian cookies `Kahk El Eid` Snack in Eastern countries with Egyptian cookies and tea.

Kahk (Egyptian Shortbread) step by step

Melt butter and mix with vegetable oil in a bowl..
In a separate large bowl, add the flour and salt and mix. Create a well in the centre..
Take your warm water, yeast and sugar and combine leaving the yeast to active (which is when you see foams being formed at the top surface of the water)This may take 10-15 mins..
In the well created previously, add in the yeast mixture and the butter + oil mixture and combine very well..
Knead the dough for about 5-10 until it all comes together and allow to rest for about an hour..
Preheat your oven to 160 C degrees..
Shape the dough into balls then flatten them out slightly. Note**** these cookies don't spread out as much as you would think and so I would advise you to shape the cookies according to the size you want them to be after they are cooked.. They do however rise in the oven as they cook..
Place them into your tray, and using a fork create holes which will allow the powdered sugar to sit in the cookies once baked and served..
Bake in preheated oven for about 15 mins. At this point they would have only cooked from the inside... So the next thing you want to do is increase the temperature to 200C degrees and cooked them for about 5-10 mins or until golden brown from the top..
Finally after they are cooked, cool and sprinkle with powdered sugar just before serving..
With this recipe, the shortbread/cookie itself only contain 1 tsp of sugar, which means that you can control how much sugar you want when serving... Which is for sure one of the things I love about these cookies..

Kahk , or Ka'ak al-Eid ( Arabic : كحك or كعك العيد ), is a small circular biscuit eaten by Egyptians and Sudanese people to celebrate. Kahk is an important part of Egyptian culture. Tasty with LG Electronics USA. · Watch as Amro bakes his mom's Egyptian Kahk cookies in our LG Electronics USA ProBake Convection® Oven. Egyptian Kahk on Eid-ul-Fitr: Eid was also celebrated with great joy in ancient Egypt. Ancient Egyptians prepare 'Kahk' as a traditional dessert of Eid al-Fitr.