Part of the fun when making these Cucidati cookies is making them with family. They are an Italian Christmas cookie from Sicily similar to a fig cookie. These old-fashioned cookies have a chewy ...

Cassatedde is more like a pastry to me, but it still falls under the Italian cookie section in grandma's recipe book. ... Cucidati (Italian Fig Cookies) 4 cups all-purpose flour. Advertisement.

2. Put the blade back into the food processor. The dough should have collected nearly all of the ingredients so there’s no need to wash anything out.

Directions: Preheat the oven to 350 degrees and line a baking sheet with parchment paper. Cream the butter and sugar using a mixer. Add the ricotta, eggs and extract.

Cucidati are the latest holiday cookie recipe I have added to my repertoire for Christmas eating and gift-giving. The recipe for cucidati is said to have originated in Sicily and is made to ...

Janet Johnson of Pennsburg also sent a Italian Fig Cookie recipe for Betty Martucci of Allentown. ... ITALIAN FIG COOKIES. 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour. 1/3 cup sugar. 1/4 tsp. baking powder.

Upon first reading this recipe for cuccidati (pronouced: coo-chee-dawt-tee), or Italian fig cookies, by Judith Mack, I was immediately drawn to the bold flavors - figs, orange zest, whiskey ...

Makes 244 cookies. Recipe is from Clarence Thibodeaux, of Morganza, and provided by his niece Joni Russo. “The recipe is an adaptation from the Cicero family recipe given to my uncle many years ...

The pine nut-fig cookie in her latest book, "The Fearless Baker: 175 Surprisingly Simple and Utterly Indulgent Recipes" (Little, Brown), uses traditional Italian ingredients (pine nuts, figs ...