In Greece, what are the traditional Christmas honey cookies called?

In Greece, the traditional Christmas honey cookies are called Melomakarona.

Melomakarona are Greek holiday cookies made with flour or semolina, olive oil, sugar, orange zest or juice and warm spices such as cinnamon and clove. After baking, they are briefly soaked in a honey-and-sugar syrup and finished with chopped or ground walnuts.

The cookies are typically oval or egg-shaped and are prepared especially during the Christmas season. Their name combines meli, the Greek word for honey, with makaria, a term associated with an older ceremonial food. Food historians commonly connect them with ancient or medieval makaria, although the modern honey-soaked form developed over time.

Melomakarona are often served alongside kourabiedes, buttery cookies covered with powdered sugar. Kourabiedes are not honey cookies, while loukoumades are fried dough balls and baklava is a layered pastry. Melomakarona may also be called finikia in some Greek culinary traditions.