Recipes

[Group 5 minus 1]

@meallen616 Why are they called Italian?

[meallen616]

@Group 5 minus 1,

The term "Italian sandwich cookies" is a broad, American English description used for various traditional Italian cookies that involve two halves with a filling.

These are also my favorite,

Italian Christmas Cookies

[DSD2]

My mother used to make little sour cream pastries filled with jam. Delicious.

What I would give to be sitting at the counter with her enjoying one now....

[Big Joanie]

Snow flake shaped cut outs ... with white icing and blue

sanding sugar ....Yummy ....

[KatieB]

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@charsha wrote:

Russian Tea Cakes

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  @charsha 

Do you have a recipe for these cookies?  I don't think I've ever had those.  Thanks.

[on the bay]

My mother's Russian Tea Cookies.

She would "hide" them until Christmas and of course my sister always found them and we would each sneak 1 together!

[Jaynah]

My favorite cookie: We call them "clothespin cookies", they are known as lady locks, also. A light, flaky layer filled with a creamy, thick filling. 

[AuntG]

Basic cutouts with lemon flavoring.

[deepwaterdotter]

@KatieB  This is my mother's recipe for these treats:

2 sticks butter

1/2 cup powdered sugar

1 1/2 tsp vanilla

1 tsp salt

3/4 cup almond flour

2 1/4 cups flour

Beat butter, sugar. vanilla, and salt with electric mixer in big bowl.

Beat in almond flour, then regular flour.   

Roll dough into 1-inch balls and place 1" apart on parchment-lined baking sheet.

Bake in 325-degree oven until barely browned around edges, 15-20 minutes.

Let cool on sheet for a few minutes.

Roll in 1 1/2 cups powdered sugar in small bowl, then place on rack to finish cooling.

Roll again in bowl of sugar when cool.

[Eileen in Virginia]

Tea Time Tassies  - mini pecan pies with a tangy cream cheese crust. Delish!