Slithery snakes surround the history of the Pizzelle cookie. In Italian, pizze mean round, like pizza, and elle means flat. Just like me, round flat cookie! Pizzelle cookies are found in every single Italian bakery and home. It’s a staple cookie that as you can imagine, has a rich history surrounded by celebration.

Three simple ingredients and 5 easy steps make this the best recipe for coconut macaroon cookies. This coconut macaroon cookie recipe is made without sweetened condensed milk. It produces a decadent, chewy inside, with a slightly crispy texture outside. Delicious on its own or dipped in chocolate as we have done.

Secrets, lies, and scandals! Who would have thought that cookies could be used as a weapon to inflict a tax, but it was, and it was not that long ago? The shortbread cookie originated in Scotland in the late 1700s and was a holiday tradition for the Scots. As popularity grew, think the American Chocolate Chip cookie to the European Shortbread cookie, the tax opportunity arose.

We all have a love affair with chocolate and peppermint, there is no denying it. During the holidays, we devour candy cane peppermint cookies and scour the internet for any chocolate peppermint cookie recipe we can find. These chocolate mint cookies combine fudgy chocolate, creamy filling, and crushed candy canes all in one.

Don’t be afraid of baking and decorating a gingerbread house with your kids and grandchildren. Oh, the magical gingerbread house, we remember them as kids, we cherish them as adults and pass the tradition along to our children and grandchildren. This gingerbread house recipe, along with the recipe for gingerbread house icing, is tried and true.

We all love speculoos spice, and Christmas time seems to shine on the love even more. Have you ever wondered why your speculoos cookie recipe just falls short of the ones you remember? This recipe for speculoos cookies is absolutely delicious and came from a reader who remembers his mom baking them in his childhood.

Meringue cookies are simple, versatile, and elegant. If you master making meringue cookies, you will find a new world to an extremely diverse dessert. You can make meringue cookies without cream of tartar, just understand what happens when you do.

I hope you cherish this Christmas cutout cookie recipe, gather your loved ones, bake and reminisce about your favorite memories of Christmas cutout cookies. This is the Christmas cutout cookie recipe we have used for the past 25 years.

Viola, the marvelous rum ball recipe was born! Do you ever where a cookie comes from? Research led me to an original recipe for Rum Balls that was unexpected. These no-bake liquor balls that are SO popular at Christmas originated in Denmark as Romkugler, made from leftover baked goods. Waste not, want not!

What I think of most when I think about Italian Bakeries and their cookies, are the pretty little, pop in your mouth, butter cookies. They make the Italian butter cookies in different shapes, some sandwiched with jam, some pressed out in a spritz with a chocolate dollop of frosting like these. There is nothing better than the smell of a fresh-baked Italian butter cookie. When you bake them yourself, they are fresh, soft, and full of flavor. I consider this recipe for Italian butter cookies a gold mine, this 1 recipe can make a traditional Italian butter cookie with a dollop of frosting or the Italian sandwich cookie. Why not do both as I do!

The Italian Almond Macaroon cookie, not to be confused with the French Macaron, is a 3 ingredient almond cookie recipe. This Italian Almond Macaroon recipe is made up of almond paste, confectionary sugar, and egg whites. By far, it’s the simplest of the Almond paste cookie recipes to make. It’s a fun one to get the kids involved, a bit sticky, but they will have fun baking them up.

Spritz, what a funny word. The word spritz is actually based on the German word spritzen. In English, that means to squirt. To squirt is what we do with these almond paste spritz cookies. This recipe for Almond Spritz Cookies creates a beautifully shaped cookie using a pastry bag and a 6B decorating tip.

A Christmas Tradition for many Italian bakers, the Italian fig cookie, goes by many names, the Cuccidati, the Buccellati, the Fig Cookie, the Italian Christmas Fig Cookie, or Sicilian Fig Cookie. These luscious fig-stuffed cookies are relatively easy to make, are a perfect food gift, and look great on your Christmas cookie tray.

This cookie is easy to make, tasty, and will delight everyone who gets one. It basically is 2 cookies sandwiched together, rolled in a liqueur and granulated sugar. The Italian Peach cookie looks like a real peach will make a beautiful addition to any Christmas cookie tray or a cherished food gift.

This is a simple and delicious Linzer Cookie Recipe you are going to love. It comes together quickly, is delicious, and will be a treasured secret recipe for years.

Meatball cookies are actually a chocolate spice cookie that goes by many names, Italian Meatball cookies, Chocolate Meatballs, and my favorite, Meatball cookies. Each name still contains the same basic ingredients of basic cookie dough with the addition of cocoa powder and assorted spices like cinnamon, cloves, allspice, and nutmeg. You should at the minimum add chocolate chips. When I make mine, I use only chocolate chips, most recipes will have the addition of walnuts and sometimes raisins. The problem with adding walnuts and raisins is that you need to worry about food allergies to nuts and grapes, so to avoid that I mostly use chocolate chips only.

There is no need to be afraid of this delicious Italian cookie. A small, sturdy cookie made for dunking typically in coffee, originated in Tuscany and was made with almonds. As with most recipes, overtime many variations have been developed. We are using this recipe as part of the 20 Days of Christmas Cookie series, but I like to keep them on hand all year.

This basic-cookie dough recipe will give you 5 different types of cookies, each of which is highlighted in our 20 Days of Christmas Cookies series . Once you are comfortable making this easy, plain-cookie dough recipe, you will get creative on your own and begin to try different mix-ins and spices to create your own cookie dough. It’s also a great recipe on how to make cookie dough without brown sugar.