{"id":2815561,"date":"2011-12-24T12:48:37","date_gmt":"2011-12-24T16:48:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kitoula.com\/?p=2815561"},"modified":"2018-03-28T10:55:51","modified_gmt":"2018-03-28T14:55:51","slug":"maxwells-merry-christmas-koulouria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kitoula.com\/2011\/12\/maxwells-merry-christmas-koulouria\/","title":{"rendered":"Maxwell&#8217;s Merry Christmas Koulouria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2815569\" title=\"Max Kristmas Koulourakia 2011 \" src=\"http:\/\/kitoula.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Kristmas-Koulourakia-2011-015-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"Max Kristmas Koulourakia 2011 \" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kitoula.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Kristmas-Koulourakia-2011-015-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kitoula.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Kristmas-Koulourakia-2011-015-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Every Christmas I make my Mother&#8217;s traditional butter cookies, Greek <a title=\"Koulourakia - Butter Cookies\" href=\"http:\/\/kitoula.com\/2009\/08\/koulourakia-butter-cookies\/\" target=\"_blank\">Koulouria<\/a>. I used to make them with my son, Robert, when he was much younger. Now, I make them with\u00a0 my Grandson Maxwell.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2815567\" title=\"All shapes and sizes! Letters too!\" src=\"http:\/\/kitoula.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Kristmas-Koulourakia-2011-009-183x300.jpg\" alt=\"All shapes and sizes! Letters too!\" width=\"183\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kitoula.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Kristmas-Koulourakia-2011-009-183x300.jpg 183w, https:\/\/kitoula.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Kristmas-Koulourakia-2011-009-624x1024.jpg 624w, https:\/\/kitoula.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Kristmas-Koulourakia-2011-009.jpg 1484w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 183px) 100vw, 183px\" \/> Max likes to make his cookies in the shape of the initials of the person to whom he is giving.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2815568\" title=\"Traditional twisted shaped Koulouria\" src=\"http:\/\/kitoula.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Kristmas-Koulourakia-2011-011-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"Traditional twisted shaped Koulouria\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kitoula.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Kristmas-Koulourakia-2011-011-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kitoula.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Kristmas-Koulourakia-2011-011-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/> This Yiayia likes to make them in the traditional twist shape like her\u00a0 Mother did. <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2815565\" title=\"Benjamin\" src=\"http:\/\/kitoula.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Kristmas-Koulourakia-2011-004-168x300.jpg\" alt=\"Benjamin\" width=\"168\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kitoula.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Kristmas-Koulourakia-2011-004-168x300.jpg 168w, https:\/\/kitoula.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Kristmas-Koulourakia-2011-004-576x1024.jpg 576w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 168px) 100vw, 168px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Benjamin likes to help, which means spreading Christmas cheer and flour everywhere. <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2815566 alignleft\" title=\"Let's flour Dad's head\" src=\"http:\/\/kitoula.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Kristmas-Koulourakia-2011-007-300x204.jpg\" alt=\"Let's flour Dad's head\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kitoula.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Kristmas-Koulourakia-2011-007-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kitoula.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Kristmas-Koulourakia-2011-007-1024x697.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes the need arises for a little horsing around with Dad. <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2815564\" title=\"Kristmas Koulourakia 2011 001\" src=\"http:\/\/kitoula.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Kristmas-Koulourakia-2011-0011-168x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"168\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kitoula.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Kristmas-Koulourakia-2011-0011-168x300.jpg 168w, https:\/\/kitoula.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Kristmas-Koulourakia-2011-0011-576x1024.jpg 576w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 168px) 100vw, 168px\" \/> In the end, there is a feeling of great accomplishment and of course, learning about the gift of giving something handmade.<\/p>\n<p>Merry Christmas! May you have a blessed Christmas with family and friends and may all your Christmas dreams come true!<\/p>\n<p>With love, Kitoula<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2815583\" title=\"Hammond Merry Christmas 2011 \" src=\"http:\/\/kitoula.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Hammond-Christmas-2011-alt-1024x458.jpg\" alt=\"Hammond Merry Christmas 2011 \" width=\"640\" height=\"286\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kitoula.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Hammond-Christmas-2011-alt-1024x458.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/kitoula.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Hammond-Christmas-2011-alt-300x134.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every Christmas I make my Mother&#8217;s traditional butter cookies, Greek Koulouria. I used to make them with my son, Robert, when he was much younger. Now, I make them with\u00a0 my Grandson Maxwell. Max likes to make his cookies in the shape of the initials of the person to whom he is giving. This Yiayia &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kitoula.com\/2011\/12\/maxwells-merry-christmas-koulouria\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Maxwell&#8217;s Merry Christmas Koulouria<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[226,401,12,124,531,18],"tags":[29,530,33,228,227],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Maxwell&#039;s Merry Christmas Koulouria - Kitoula&#039;s Greek Food Journal<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/kitoula.com\/2011\/12\/maxwells-merry-christmas-koulouria\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Kitoula\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/kitoula.com\/2011\/12\/maxwells-merry-christmas-koulouria\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/kitoula.com\/2011\/12\/maxwells-merry-christmas-koulouria\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Kitoula\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/kitoula.com\/#\/schema\/person\/610affd2867fead5d767dc93895afcdf\"},\"headline\":\"Maxwell&#8217;s Merry Christmas Koulouria\",\"datePublished\":\"2011-12-24T16:48:37+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2018-03-28T14:55:51+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/kitoula.com\/2011\/12\/maxwells-merry-christmas-koulouria\/\"},\"wordCount\":144,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/kitoula.com\/#\/schema\/person\/610affd2867fead5d767dc93895afcdf\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/kitoula.com\/2011\/12\/maxwells-merry-christmas-koulouria\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"http:\/\/kitoula.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Kristmas-Koulourakia-2011-015-300x168.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Christmas\",\"Christmas cookies\",\"cookies\",\"Greek koulouria\",\"koulouria\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Christmas cookies\",\"Food and Family\",\"Greek\",\"Greek Food\",\"Greek Recipes\",\"Recipes\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/kitoula.com\/2011\/12\/maxwells-merry-christmas-koulouria\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/kitoula.com\/2011\/12\/maxwells-merry-christmas-koulouria\/\",\"name\":\"Maxwell's Merry Christmas Koulouria - Kitoula&#039;s Greek Food Journal\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/kitoula.com\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/kitoula.com\/2011\/12\/maxwells-merry-christmas-koulouria\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/kitoula.com\/2011\/12\/maxwells-merry-christmas-koulouria\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"http:\/\/kitoula.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Kristmas-Koulourakia-2011-015-300x168.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2011-12-24T16:48:37+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2018-03-28T14:55:51+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/kitoula.com\/2011\/12\/maxwells-merry-christmas-koulouria\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/kitoula.com\/2011\/12\/maxwells-merry-christmas-koulouria\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/kitoula.com\/2011\/12\/maxwells-merry-christmas-koulouria\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/kitoula.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Kristmas-Koulourakia-2011-015-300x168.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"http:\/\/kitoula.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Kristmas-Koulourakia-2011-015-300x168.jpg\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/kitoula.com\/2011\/12\/maxwells-merry-christmas-koulouria\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/kitoula.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Maxwell&#8217;s Merry Christmas Koulouria\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/kitoula.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/kitoula.com\/\",\"name\":\"Kitoula's Greek Food Journal\",\"description\":\"I&#039;m Greek. 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