Italian Cookie Recipes | Drop Cookies, Bar Cookies, Molded Cookies!


	Italian Cookie Recipes Most Italian cookie recipes use basic ingredients sold in your supermarket! Want to make an award winning batch of authentic Italian cookies? It's not that tough - because there is no big secret! We use the several basic ingredients over and over. Just follow any one of these Italian cookie recipes and you will rock your own world. You will NEVER want to purchase an Italian-pretender-cookie from a franchised bakery or market again! What do I need to make true Italian cookies? Usually three main things: REAL BUTTER Nuts Flavorings We use almond flavoring more than vanilla flavoring. And the big one that may seem foreign - anise extract or anise flavoring. (Anise is the flavoring that is similar to licorice - you may know it best in the traditional Italian biscotti.) All of these main ingredients can be found your normal supermarket and picked up in your regular shopping trip! Good news, huh? No specialty shopping required! Drop Cookie Recipes Drop cookie recipes are when you literally drop the cookie dough on the cookie sheet. These Italian cookies take no time to refrigerate or press into a molded shape. Some of these are more complex in ingredients and some are super easy. Anisette Cookies Breakfast Cookie Recipe Brown Sugar Cookie Recipe Best Oatmeal Raisin Cookies Cappuccino Cookies Caramel Cookie Recipe Chocolate Raisin Cookies Coconut Macaroon Cookies Date Cookie Recipe Italian Fresh Fig Cookie Recipe Lemon Cookie Recipe Meringue Cookie Recipe Orange Cookies Ricotta Cheese Cookies Sesame Seed Cookie Recipe Italian Wedding Cookie Recipe Italian Bar Cookies Bar cookies are pretty easy. They usually involve a bottom layer that is pressed into a pan with the top layer spread on top. Apricot Bar Recipe Cherry Chocolate Bars Chocolate Cookie Bar Recipe Coffee Brownies Double Chocolate Brownie Recipe Date Bar Recipe Pumpkin Bars Italian Shaped Cookies These cookies need a little bit of lead time to refrigerate the dough, or to shape. Almond Butter Cookies Recipe Amaretto Cookie Recipe Chocolate Macaroons Cinnamon Sour Cream Cookies Pizzelle Cookie Recipe Bourbon Ball Recipe Rum Ball Recipe Candies Maple Candy Recipe Amaretto Truffles Which ones are the easy to make cookies? I separated a list above into a list of the easier cookie recipes. These cookies are quick, easy and the ingredients can be found in a normal supermarket. Easy To Make Cookies A shortened list of the above cookies, for those who gotta make cookies NOW! Most Italian Cookies In The Super Market Are Imposters! Why do I say they are imposters? Because authentic Italian cookie recipes use butter and eggs as primary ingredients. It gives that rich base flavor. These usually go bad within days unless... Super market cookies were made in an industrial bakery! These bakeries are miles away from your market. The mass impersonal bakeries use wee amounts of butter and eggs in their products to save money. To preserve the wee amount of real butter in those cookies, and the minute amount of eggs - the cookies were pumped with preservatives only a chemistry student can pronounce. After the giant industrial machines place a colorful wrapper and a deceptive pretty label proclaiming the cookies as "Italian", they sit on the shelves (or a freezer) in the bakery morgue for weeks! Most are pure crap! We pride ourselves in using the freshest ingredients possible. Which means using these cookie recipes you won't have them sitting around long. Your cookies will be MUCH tastier and truly authentic with these recipes! You will have a batch of fresh Italian cookies from YOUR kitchen that beat any of the prepackaged grocery store cookies! Back to the top of Italian Cookie Recipes I love sugar and I eat dessert EVERYDAY! Ok, not MASSIVE amounts. But I do have to finish off the evening meal with a little sweet something. When I was a kid my health conscience mother would ration my Halloween candy. Her mantra was, "white sugar will kill you". But my Italian grandma always told me, "Everybody needs a little bit of sugar." :-) So, to get my October Halloween sugar fix I will make the traditional Italian cookie recipe, Venetian Bones of the Dead. Italians make these for the Day of the Dead on November 2nd. So - hey, our holiday in America - Halloween is the closest. So - while the neighborhood is slamming down a bunch of gross mass produced candy on October 31st, I'll have a real goodie. Oh yeah, I'll have to post it too! (Eventually!) You know how it is. Work. Kids. Clean. Cook. I'll see if Bones Of The Dead is in my grandma's first recipe file she started when she married in 1932. Most of the recipes on my site came from her influence. If they aren't in her file - then I got them from her friends. And the remainder I experimented with adapting her style. I hope she looks down and smiles this Halloween. Lisa Would you like to share this page? You know how to do it! Thanks for sharing the sugar love! Contact Me Privacy Policy About
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Recipes on this site are from family cookbooks, family traditions, or intentional adaptations from traditional recipes to add an Italian flair. If a recipe was adapted or used from another cook - it is mentioned on the recipe page and the recipe author is given credit.