Tracy wrote:
> They are called Shebakia or fried honey cakes. Moroccans eat them
> during Ramadan. They are a pain in the neck to make too.
>
> Here are the ingredients.
>
> http://i44.tinypic.com/34fe6v8.jpg
>
> There's flour, butter, egg, fennel, sesame seeds and orange blossom
> water, among other things.
>
> Basically you dump all the ingredients into a mixer until you get a nice
> dough.
>
> http://i41.tinypic.com/2lvy9tx.jpg
>
> You then roll the dough out and cut with either a cookie cutter your
> mother in law gave you or you use a pasta cutter.
>
> http://i40.tinypic.com/2cpqkyd.jpg
>
> http://i40.tinypic.com/nzrvax.jpg
>
> Shaping them is very hard to describe.
>
> http://i43.tinypic.com/34i249w.jpg
> http://i44.tinypic.com/aw2jok.jpg
> http://i40.tinypic.com/25q8b6a.jpg
>
> Here's a platter full ready for frying.
>
> http://i41.tinypic.com/2l9pf92.jpg
>
> The next step is frying them. They then get dunked in warm honey and
> sprinkled with sesame seeds
>
> http://i39.tinypic.com/21l7ckz.jpg
> http://i39.tinypic.com/v2sbbo.jpg
>
> And the finished product.
>
> http://i40.tinypic.com/99o08g.jpg
>
> The DH says they are "not bad". They are not perfect I will agree. When
> you bite into one there should be honey oozing out. Mine are a little
> biscuity. Taste good though.
>
> -Tracy


Looks good! You went through a lot of work to make those, and your
photos turned out very well.

Becca