Thiples - Diples - Traditional Sweet with Honey

We boil the octopus and we cut in pieces of 1 ½ to two centimeters in length. We peel the onions and the garlic, we finely chop them, put them in a tavas with the oil and we sauté over low heat. When they are brown we pour half a litre of water and the tomatoes which have been grated .

We beat the oil with the sugar. We dilute the bicarbonate soda and the baking powder in the cognac and  pour this mixture in the oil and the sugar. We add the rest of the ingredients ( except for the flour ) and mix them well. We pour the  flour little by little ( perhaps  not all of it )  and knead until the dough doesn’t get stuck on our hands. We shape the honey cakes, put them in an oiled baking pan and bake them in a medium temperature for half an hour. We prepare the syrup and let  it be cold. As soon as we remove the honey cakes from the oven, we dip them in the syrup and put them in a platter. We sprinkle them with ground walnut pith.

Important services such as the Port Authority, the Police Station, the Customs and the Post Office are located in Dafni, which serve the monks and pilgrims upon their arrival or departure from Mount Athos. Here, in Dafni, is our store Monastiriaka (mount athos shop) and we are the oldest company in Greece for gathering and distributing monastic products to the whole world. We make shipments all over Greece and to more than 100 countries around the world.