Italian Ricotta Cookies – Good for X-Mas!

It was time for our annual neighborhood cookie alternate and these festive Italian Ricotta Cookies with almond icing and vacation sprinkles have been excellent for the event. This vacation traditional will turn into a scrumptious yearly custom!

Made with entire milk ricotta cheese, these comfortable Italian Christmas Cookies are cakey, tender, and irresistible!

Why You Should Make

• There’s not at all times time to roll, reduce, and enhance conventional frosted sugar cookies.
• These ricotta cheese cookies are made by merely scooping the dough onto parchment paper, baking, after which topping with a simple powdered sugar frosting!
• My frosting-loving husband, who’s usually a tough promote in the case of new recipes, raved about these even earlier than they have been iced!!! FYI, his hearty endorsement included the frosted cookies, too.

Ingredient Notes:

Search for entire milk ricotta as the additional fats helps make for comfortable, tender cookies. The flavorings may be tweaked. I used vanilla for the cookies and almond for the frosting. Anise and lemon are additionally generally used. Fluctuate the colour of your sprinkles for various holidays or events. Suppose St. Patrick’s Day, Valentine’s Day, Bridal or Child Showers, and so forth.

• Kitchen Staples: Sugar, All-Goal Flour, Desk Salt, Baking Soda, Milk
• Butter – I take advantage of salted. When you use unsalted, add just a little additional desk salt.
• Eggs – Giant Eggs
• Complete milk ricotta cheese – I eliminated 1 tablespoon from a 16-ounce container (the recipe requires 15 ounces).
• Actual Vanilla Extract, – By no means use imitation vanilla, the style is subpar.
• Powdered Sugar – Sift earlier than utilizing for the smoothest frosting.
• Almond extract – Offers a extra advanced taste to those Italian cookies
• Coloured sprinkles or sugar, relying on the vacation. Make sure that to scent and style your sprinkles if you happen to’ve had them for a couple of years. Sprinkles can lose high quality over time and even go rancid (which can spoil your cookies!).

Skilled Suggestions

Although I’m unsure the origin of those cookies is actually Italy or if that is an Italian-American contribution, they’re a Christmas traditional for a lot of households throughout the US. Typically flavored with lemon or anise, I went with vanilla within the cookies and almond extract within the frosting. Be happy so as to add the flavorings you and your loved ones favor.

• As with all cookies, have your butter and eggs at room temperature. The butter shouldn’t be so comfortable that it seems greasy, us comfortable sufficient to make it mix simply with the sugar.
• PRO-Tip: Use a cookie disher (affiliate hyperlink) cookie scoop to make constant sized cookies. I used a smaller scoop for some (my desire) and a medium scoop for the remainder. Simply regulate the baking time.
• PRO-Tip: I additionally rolled the dough balls between my palms to assist make them rounder.
• Bake on parchment-lined baking sheets for straightforward cleanup. I reuse my parchment for subsequent batches of the identical cookie.
• Let cool fully earlier than icing. And whereas the frosting remains to be moist, add sprinkles in colours to match the season or occasion. You can too enhance these Italian Christmas cookies with coloured sugar or candied cherries.
• Use an offset spatula (affiliate hyperlink) to unfold on the icing or maintain the cookies by their sides and dip the tops into the bowl of frosting.

These have been excellent for a neighborhood vacation cookie alternate. There was nothing however crumbs on the platter when it was time to go dwelling! Try extra of my favourite Cookie Trade Recipes for vacation inspiration.

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