Turkish cookies soaked in sugar syrup - şekerpare

şekerpare.

What we need:

1 egg
1 Turkish teacup of sugar ( 1 cup - 150ml)
250gr of butter
1 teascup semolina
1 pack of vanilla sugar
1 tbsp of baking powder
3,5 water glasses of flour ( 1 glass = 200ml)

for decoration:

50-60gr of nuts (you can use any you want, I decided to use pistachio, use almond, hazelnut or walnut)
1 egg yok for brushing the cookies

for Syrup:

2 glasses of sugar
2 glasses of water
½ lemon juice

What we have to do:

1. Put sugar and water in a pot and cook for 6-7 minutes, then add lemon juice and continue cooking for 3 more minutes. Leave it to cool.
2. Mix egg, sugar, butter, semolina, vanilla in a bowl. Mix flour with baking powder and add slowly into cookie dough. Knead the dough until it's soft and combined.
3. Take small pieces of dough and shape the cookies. Put one nut in the middle of each cookie and brush with egg yok.