Recipe: Appetizing Roxakia

Recipe: Appetizing Roxakia Delicious, fresh and tasty.

Roxakia. Roxakia are a Greek type of sweet dough. I hope it's mainly Greek but you never know. They are bite sized cocoa and vanilla and cinnamon goodies that look lovely and taste like heaven.

Roxakia (ροξακια) These Greek cookies consist of two layers of yeasted dough.

The dark-colored part is enriched with cocoa and cinnamon and is neatly wrapped with a layer of white, vanilla-flavored dough.

The cookies are then cut into bite-size pieces, and when baked, they are doused in a sweet syrup..

You can cook Roxakia using 11 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Roxakia

1. It’s of corn oil.

2. Prepare of milk.

3. You need of baking powder.

4. Prepare of yeast.

5. It’s of vanilla.

6. Prepare of eggs.

7. You need of cocoa powder as much as it takes for half of the dough to turn dark brown.

8. Prepare of flour, as much as it takes for a fluffy dough.

9. It’s of For the syrup.

10. You need of water.

11. It’s of sugar.

Roxakia are Greek vegan, bicoloured, yeasted dough cookies, which after being baked are drenched in syrup.

The original recipe is not vegan as it requires eggs and milk in the dough.

Add in a bowl all the ingredients for the dough, except the nuts, the flour and the cocoa.

On cue the roxakia came out of the oven hard, everything went great.

Roxakia step by step

1. Place all the ingredients together in a large bowl except the flour and the cocoa powder and mix well. Finally add the flour little by little until you have a nice dough..

2. Divide the dough into two equal parts and add the cocoa powder to one half so that it turns  dark brown. Roll out the white dough into a sheet. Shape the dark dough into a roll and place it at one end of the white dough sheet. Then roll the white dough with the dark one and cut into round slices..

3. Bake in the oven at 180°C and then pour lukewarm suryp over them..

I followed your advice for the syrup exactly (and yes, the roxakia were completely cold and I had just taken the syrup off the heat).

In a big bowl add the fresh yeast,the milk,the olive oil,the salt,the eggs,the baking powder,the flour,the vanilla powder and the orange zest.

Then when the dough has combined,divide it into two parts.

In another bowl,add one part of the dough and add the cocoa powder,the coarsely chopped walnuts (or almonds),the cinnamon and knead until the ingredients.

Greek cocoa and cinnamon syrupy dough swirls - Roxakia.