Alright, now we come to the final recipe that I contributed to Greek Night. I waited to make these until I had arrived at the EU kitchen of the evening.

Here is the second tray waiting to go into the oven.

I wanted to make this recipe version as it has the absolute best-looking cookies of any of the recipes that I looked at, also Tele loved the name of the chef that made it, "Yiayia". Editor's Note: Haha. Yiayia. It still cracks me up.

However, it requires cinnamon oil and for some reason that seems to be about impossible to find in the entire Greater Las Vegas Valley. Luckily, I am the queen of procrastination, so if I had thought of finding this ingredient earlier (I have known since July 11th that I was making these!) then I would have known how hard it was to locate and would have ordered it online from Amazon. Unfortunately, I wasn't thinking that far ahead. Anyhow, I will be trying this version as soon as I get a hold of the cinnamon oil.

That being said I went with a different version of the recipe that I had located on my original recipe search. It has some variations and doesn't include the cinnamon oil, which for now is a good thing. So we were off to making Greek Butter Cookies.

This cookie is easy enough to make. It follows the basics of all cookie making and can be whipped out in about 20 minutes total. I did learn not to skimp on the flour though. This dough does need to be pretty stiff to hold it's shape. I didn't add in the last 3/4 cups of flour and I should have as my cookies sort of mushed down rather than holding the pretty shape of the cinnamon oil recipe's pics. But hey that is what this site is about, what did we learn while we made these recipes and how can we help you to have success with the same/similar recipe.

I was satisfied with the outcome of these cookies, but something tells me that Yiayia's cookies are probably better. Also I think I made them a bit large, but they were yummy and that is all that matters.