How To make Easy Italian Cookies
1/2 lb Butter, softened
2 lg Eggs, beaten
1 c Sugar
4 c Flour
2 T Baking powder
2 T Vanilla
1/2 ct Confectioners sugar
2 T Milk
1 T Anise extract
Confetti sprinkles
DOUGH: Cream butter and sugar, add eggs and flavoring. Mix well. Blend in flour and baking powder. Work to form a soft pliable dough.
Cut off pieces of dough, the size of a walnut, roll to about 1/2" thickness, then shape into a curved 'S' shape about 2 1/2" long or a straight 2 1/2" pencil shape. Bake in preheated oven 375 degrees until lightly brown about 15-20 minutes. Cookies may be iced or left plain.
ICING: Blend sugar and anise extract, adding milk slowly to form a soft, smooth icing. Ice cookies while warm, sprinkle confetti on top if desired.
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Homemade Sicilian S Cookies Recipe
Bring my Sicilian grandma right to your kitchen with this generations old easy to make S cookie recipe that is guaranteed to produce smiles!
If you’ve ever been to an Italian or Sicilian get together, no matter if it’s a holiday or just a back-yard party, you will inevitably be exposed to S cookies in some fashion. They are as classic as it gets in the world of Italian cookies, probably because they’re so easy to make.
Ingredients for this recipe:
For the Cookies:
• 4 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 1/3 cup sugar
• 2 tablespoons baking powder
• 2 ½ sticks softened unsalted butter
• 2 eggs
• 2 egg yolks
• 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
• water
For the Glaze:
• 1 cup powdered sugar
• 2 tablespoons whole milk
Makes 50 cookies
Prep Time: 30 minutes
Cook Time: 10 minutes
Cooling Time: 20 minutes
Procedures:
1. Preheat the oven to 350°.
2. Add the flour, sugar, and baking powder to a large bowl and using a pastry knife cut in the butter until the mixture becomes like a meal or is very small like cous cous. Set aside.
3. In a separate bowl whisk together the eggs and vanilla until completely combined.
4. Transfer the dry ingredients to a clean surface and form a well in the center. Pour the wet ingredients to the center of the well and knead the dough for 4-5 minutes or until it forms a smooth cookie dough.
5. If the dough is dry add 1 tablespoons of cold water at a time while kneading until the dough is soft. Do not add too much or the dough will become too wet and sticky.
6. Add the dough to a bowl and chill in the refrigerator for 20 minutes.
7. Take the dough out and take about 2 tablespoons of dough and roll it out on a clean surface until it’s about a ½” to ¾” in diameter and 5”-6” in length.
8. Curl up each end to the center to form an S shape and then add to a cookie sheet tray lined with parchment paper about 2” apart from one another. Use the dough until it is all gone.
9. Bake the cookies on the bottom rack of an oven for 350° for 5 minutes and then the top rack at 350° for 5 minutes or until very lightly browned around the bottom edges.
10. Cool completely.
11. While the cookies are cooling whisk together powdered sugar and milk in a small bowl until combined then dip the top part of the s cookie in the glaze and set on a rack until the glaze has formed to the cookie. You can also brush the glaze on if you’d like.
Chef Notes:
Make-Ahead: You can make these up to 2-3 days ahead of time.
How to Store: Keep these in plastic bags at room temperature for up to 6 days or in the refrigerator for up to 8 days. These freeze extremely well in plastic bags for up to 3 months. Thaw at room temperature and serve.
Be sure the butter is softened before trying to cut it into the dry ingredients.
My Aunt Pam swears that if you use ½ Blue Bonnet margarine, the cookies will taste better. I used all unsalted butter, but it’s up to you.
If butter is too expensive you can use 100% margarine, which is what my grandma did.
My family also adds up to 4 tablespoons of vanilla, but that’s too much for me.
To fast track this recipe cut the butter into the dry ingredients in a food processor and then transfer to a stand mixer with the hook attachment and knead in the wet ingredients.
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Italian Twist Cookies - Nonna's famous recipe for holidays.
Italian Twist Cookies - Nonna’s famous recipe (Yields 32 to 34 large cookies)
Perfect for Thanksgivings and Holidays. See the recipe and directions below.
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Ingredients:
2 sticks 8 ounces very soft butter (223 gr)
5 large eggs
1 1/2 cups granulated sugar (300 gr)
6 1/2 cups all purpose flour (850 grams)
3 tsp vanilla or 1 Pane degli Angeli vanilla packet
5 tsp baking powder(26 grams)
1/2 tsp salt or 1 tsp if you’re using sweet butter
Eggs and butter must be at room temperature.
Directions:
Step#1- In a large bowl using a whisk cream the butter and sugar until light and fluffy. About 2 minutes.
Step#2- Add the eggs one at a time and continue whisking. Add vanilla and salt.
Step#3- Mix baking powder in the flour and add it to the butter mixture.
Step#4- Fold in gently using a spatula. Move to a work surface and work gently until you have a smooth dough. Don’t overwork it.
Step#5- Cover in plastic wrap and let it rest in the fridge for at least 1 1/2 hours.
Step#6- Cut dough in 6 pieces, Roll each piece about 1/2 thick and 6 inches long.
Step#7- Twist to create shape.
Step#8- Bake at 350 degrees Fahrenheit (180 Celsius)on a parchment paper lined cookie sheet.
(8 to 10 minutes depending on your oven until slightly golden underneath)
For smaller cookies:-
Step#1- Just roll to 1/4 inch thickness and 6 inches long.
(If you have dough left over you can roll it out and cut circles using a Mason jar lid or round cookie cutter).
Step#2- Place in a small tart pan.
Step#3- Fill with a tsp of your favorite jam or Nutella. Bake at 350 degrees Fahrenheit until golden.
Enjoy!
Italian Ricotta Cookies | How to Make This Quick and Easy Recipe!!
These Italian ricotta cookies are sooooo good! I can't stress enough how easy these are to make and how lovely they taste! Plus, this Italian ricotta cookie recipe makes over 50 cookies! They definitely won't last long. These ricotta cookies are soft and almost cake-like. I hope you have a chance to make these awesome cookies! Let me know in the comments what extract you used to flavor yours.
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Ingredients:
1 cup butter, softened
2 cups sugar
15 oz ricotta cheese
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 tsp almond extract
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp baking powder
4 1/2 cups all purpose flour
Glaze:
2 cups powdered sugar
1/2 tsp vanilla extract
1/2 tsp almond extract
2 - 4 tbsp milk or heavy cream
nonpareils (sprinkles)
Directions: Beat the butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add in the eggs one at a time, mixing well between each addition. Add in the ricotta cheese, vanilla and almond extract and beat until smooth.
Mix in the baking powder and baking soda. Add in the flour and mix until combined. Refrigerate the dough for 1 hour.
Using a cookie scooper, form cookies into balls. Onto a parchment lined baking sheet, place the cookies in the oven for 8-10 minutes at 350 degrees. Just until the edges are a very light brown.
Allow cookies to cool on the cookie sheet for 1 minute then transfer to a cooling rack.
Make the glaze: Combine all of the glaze ingredients and mix until smooth. After the cookies have cooled, you can either dip the tops of each cookie in the glaze or spoon on the glaze. Sprinkle on the nonpareils before the glaze hardens.
Cookies can be stored uncovered at room temp or in the fridge for up to 4 days.
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NONNA’S CHIACCHIERE RECIPE | How to Make Italian Fried Cookies | CROSTOLI
Chiacchiere di carnevale (also called Crostoli or Frappe) are Italian fried cookies known as Angel Wings thanks to their ribbon-like shape. These crispy strips of deep fried pasta dough are so light; you will find it hard to stop at one! Sprinkled with powdered sugar, chiaccchiere (crostoli) are traditionally enjoyed for Carnevale, a celebration held before lent - but in my opinion, they should be relished all year around! Chiacchiere recipe.
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CHIACCHIERE DI CARNEVALE
Ingredients:
500g plain flour
1 egg yolk
½ glass sunflower oil
1-1 ½ glasses of white wine
Pinch of sugar
Pinch of salt
METHOD:
1. To make your crostoli, pour 500g plain flour on to a board or breakfast bench.
2. Make a well in the centre using your hands.
3. Pour an egg yolk (only) into the well and mix using a fork.
4. Add ½ glass of sunflower oil.
5. Sprinkle in a pinch of sugar and then a pinch of salt, and mix well.
6. Add up to 1 glass of white wine and begin to combine all of the ingredients using your hands.
7. Slowly but surely knead the crostoli dough for at least 6-8 minutes or until it forms into a ball and has a soft, smooth consistency.
8. If you are finding the dough dry and hard, add some more white wine.
9. Once the ball of crostoli dough has formed, pat it down and leave it to rest underneath a large bowl so that no air gets inside.
10. Clean up your board and add some plain flour on top so to help you work your dough into the shape you need.
11. Remove the large bowl from covering the dough and cut a small piece from the end of the dough to start making the individual crostoli.
12. Preparing your pasta machine on a thicker setting, run the dough through it between 3-4 times. Then gradually work your way down the settings, as the dough becomes thinner, until you have a strip of dough and it is thin (but not too thin!) and smooth.
13. Sprinkle some flour onto your board and pass the strip lightly through it on both sides.
14. Using the ravioli cutter, slice small rectangular strips and then pinch it in the middle using two fingers to create “bow” shaped crostoli.
15. Heat up a good portion of olive oil in a small, deep pot.
16. Add several crostoli into the pot and fry them for less than a minute.
17. Turn each crostoli over using a slotted kitchen turner to make sure it has cooked through and once they have slightly browned in colour, transfer them onto a plate with paper towels.
18. Let the towels absorb the oil.
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