- prep: 20 min
- cook: 3 hr
- total: 3 hr 20 min
Summary
Take one bite of the crisp cookies known as fekkas and you're inhaling the perfumes of the Middle East: orange-flower water, anise, sesame seeds, and toasted almonds.
Ingredients
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 stick unsalted butter, melted
- 3/4 cup whole almonds, toasted, cooled, and coarsely chopped
- 2 tablespoons orange-flower water
- 2 teaspoons anise seeds
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 1/2 teaspoon pure almond extract
- 1/4 cup plus 1 tablespoon sesame seeds, toasted and cooled, divided
- 3 large eggs
- 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 large egg beaten with 1 tablespoon water for egg wash
Instructions
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Nutrition
Nutritional Info

- Servings Per Recipe: 40
- Amount Per Serving
- Calories: 77 % Daily Value *
- Total Fat: 4 g 5.54%
- Saturated Fat: 2 g 7.75%
- Trans Fat: 0 g %
- Cholesterol: 6 mg 2.02%
- Sodium: 55 mg 2.28%
- Calcium: 13 mg 1.25%
- Potassium: 12 mg 0.33%
- Magnesium: 0 mg 0%
- Iron: 1 mg 2.9%
- Zinc: 0 mg 0%
- Total Carbohydrate: 10 g %
- Dietary Fiber: 1 g 2.24%
- Sugar: 4 g
- Protein: 1 g
- Alcohol: 0 g
- Omega 3 Fatty Acid: 0 g
- Omega 6 Fatty Acid: 0 g
- Vitamin A 1.42%
- Vitamin C 0.04%
- Vitamin D 0%
- * Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet. Your Daily Values may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs.
Diabetes Exchanges
- Exchange - Fat1
- Exchange - Fruit0
- Exchange - NonFat Milk0
- Exchange - Other Carbs0
- Exchange - Starch0
- Exchange - Vegetables0
- Exchange - Lean Meat0
- Exchange - Alcohol0
MyPlate Info
- MyPlate - Grain Total0 oz-eq
- MyPlate - Vegetable Total0 c
- MyPlate - Fruit0 c
- MyPlate - Dairy0 c
- MyPlate - Protein Total0 oz-eq