Greek Christmas honey cookies- melomakarona with ILIADA Kalamata PDO Extra Virgin Olive Oil

Ingredients

For the Cookies:

• 580 ml ILIADA Kalamata PDO Extra Virgin Olive Oil
• 500 g orange juice
• 30g icing sugar
• ½ tsp baking powder
• ½ tsp baking soda
• ½ tsp cinnamon powder
• ½ tsp clove, grated
• Orange zest, of 1 orange
• 1300g all-purpose flour
• 400g walnuts, grated

For the syrup:

• 600g water
• 800g sugar
• Lemon slices, of ½ lemon
• Orange slices, from ½ orange
• 2 cinnamon sticks
• 2 pimpinella anisum
• 150g honey

For the chocolate icing (optional):

• 150g chocolate couverture
• 150g heavy cream
• 50g glucose