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Hurmašice 🍪 Bosnian Syrup Cookies 🇧🇦 (Semolina Cookies)

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Desserts Balkan Sep 21, 2025 1124
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Description

Soft, buttery semolina cookies baked to golden and soaked in lemony syrup—sweet, tender, and unmistakably Balkan. 🍋🍯

Hook: Make-ahead dessert that gets better overnight—mix, bake, soak, done. ⚡

Ingredients

Servings: 4
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  • Syrup
  • 💧 Water: 600 ml (2½ cups / 20 fl oz)
  • 🍚 Granulated sugar: 450 g (2¼ cups / 15.9 oz)
  • 🍋 Fresh lemon juice: 15 ml (1 tbsp / 0.5 fl oz)
  • 🍋 Lemon peel, wide strips (optional): 2
  • 🌿 Vanilla extract (or ½ vanilla pod): 5 ml (1 tsp / 0.17 fl oz)
  • Dough
  • 🧈 Unsalted butter, melted & cooled: 120 g (½ cup / 4.2 oz)
  • 🫗 Neutral oil (sunflower): 60 ml (¼ cup / 2 fl oz)
  • 🥛 Plain yogurt: 200 g (¾ cup / 7 oz)
  • 🥚 Eggs: 2 large (≈100 g / 3.5 oz)
  • 🍚 Sugar: 80 g (⅓ cup / 2.8 oz)
  • 🌿 Vanilla extract: 5 ml (1 tsp / 0.17 fl oz)
  • 🍋 Finely grated lemon zest: 2 g (1 tsp / 0.07 oz)
  • 🌾 Fine semolina (griz): 250 g (1½ cups / 8.8 oz)
  • 🌾 All-purpose flour: 200 g (1⅔ cups / 7.1 oz)
  • 🧂 Salt: 1 g (⅙ tsp / 0.04 oz)
  • 🔺 Baking powder: 10 g (2 tsp / 0.35 oz)
  • 🌰 Ground walnuts (optional core or topping): 60 g (½ cup / 2.1 oz)
  • To finish
  • 🌰 Extra ground walnuts, for sprinkling: 30 g (¼ cup / 1 oz)

Preparation

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Total Time

🕒 Prep: 25 min
🔥 Cook: 25 min
⏳ Total: 50 min

Nutritional Value

🔋 Energy: ~240 kcal
💪 Protein: ~3 g
🧈 Fat: ~9 g
🍞 Carbohydrates: ~37 g
🧂 Sodium: ~80 mg
🔥 240 kcal 💪 3 g protein 🍞 37 g carbs 🧈 9 g fat
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Advice

Bake to a rich golden color—well-browned cookies absorb syrup without getting mushy and keep a tender crumb.

Why it works

Semolina drinks the syrup while keeping structure; cooling the syrup before soaking hot cookies prevents the crust from dissolving and yields a plush interior with defined ridges.

Twist

Cocoa hurmašice: Add 15 g (2 tbsp) cocoa to the dry mix; finish with orange zest.

Almond version: Swap walnuts for almonds and add a drop of almond extract.

Honey note: Replace ⅓ of the sugar in the syrup with honey for floral depth.

Status

Golden, syrup-kissed Hurmašice that melt on the tongue—Balkan tea-time perfection. #grannyzen #hurmasice 🍯🍋

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