Writing this post is torture. I am currently taking a two-week intensive, Czech language class and today, one of my classmates, who went home to Thessaloniki this past weekend, brough back with him a box of traditional, Greek Christmas cookie for us to sample. I sampled one of these soft, mouth-watering cookies and I have to tell you, it had the most unusual combination of flavours: honey, nuts, cinnamon dipped in white chocolate and topped with pink peppercorns.
It was amazing. I asked my classmate if the bakery, BLE, had a website or whether there was something I could look at to replicate the cookie but sadly there is nothing (the torturous part). I snapped a couple of pictures and I am putting it out to the web. When I got home I tried Googling different things to find out what the cookie is or whether BLE is mentioned anywhere, and nothing comes up except for one reference to the bakery in a post on Chowhound as well as Colibri, the company who was responsible for Ble’s rebranding and interiors.
Does anyone know anything about this cookie or the bakery? These cookies are too fabulous to be kept a secret!!!! There must be a recipe somewhere. If you have any thoughts, please leave a comment below.
My update- Apparently Ble does have a website, which I’ve included. The reason I could not find it was because it is written in Greek. The cookie also has a name- It is called a Melomakarona, and it is a cookie that is soaked in a honey syrup and popular in Greece during the Christmas holidays- (aka a honey & spice cookie) a recipe can be found here and here. Phew!, case closed.
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Those do look like pretty fabulous cookies, that was one of the fantastic and surprising things I found while traveling around Greece, the quantity of brilliant bakeries. There is a particularly mouth watering place in ancient Corinth if you ever have the chance to go… (Sorry never heard of these particular wonderous cookies..)
Corinth- I’ll keep that in mind. Do you remember what you tried? Thanks for the comment.
Hi Sarah,
Loved the look of those cookies. I am going to send the blog to John and anita and see if they know anyone with a recipe or recognize the cookies.
very expensine products, low quality and stale bread
Hello Sarah,
We came across your lovely post about Ble’s Melomakarona and the little trouble you had finding out more about us.
We ‘re soon launching a new website with English language selection for our friends abroad. Just to inform you, we ‘re running a Facebook page with our news and offers which you can see here: http://www.facebook.com/Ble.taste
Most of the content is in Greek so far but be certain that we could have an online conversation in English.
We ‘re expecting to meet you in person when you visit Thessaloniki.
PS: We noticed that you launched a new blog, so we’ll try to send you this post over there in case this one doesn’t reach you.