Cookie Recipes Made with Love – From Italian Classics to Family Favorites
Welcome! This is your go-to spot for homemade cookie recipes that warm the heart. You’ll find crisp Biscotti, chewy Amaretti, and festive treats for every season.
These recipes come from real kitchens and real traditions. Many have been passed down through generations. Each one brings just the right mix of sweetness, crunch, or chew.
Bake for the holidays, a party, or just because. Whatever the reason, these cookies bring smiles. They’re easy to make, full of flavor, and made to share.
Get ready to fill your kitchen with the smell of something amazing. Let’s bake!
Bussolai di Burano Recipe | Venetian Butter Cookies
Venetian Butter Cookies If you’ve ever wandered through the narrow streets of Venice, the scent of butter and sugar might have led you to something special, golden rings of crisp sweetness called Buranelli cookies. These humble treats may look simple, but they carry the soul of an island and the love of generations of bakers. Buranelli also known as Bussolai…
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Piparelli | Crunchy Almond Honey Cookies
Authentic Sicilian Piparelli Recipe: Sicily’s Toasted Almond Treasure| In Sicily, tradition smells like roasted almonds and warm honey. Piparelli capture that spirit perfectly. Crunchy, golden, and full of rustic charm, these biscotti have lived in Sicilian kitchens for generations. Around Messina and Catania, every family has its own version, and each one tells a story. Over the centuries, Sicily has…
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Authentic Italian Lemon Ricotta Cookies
Lemon Ricotta Cookies Recipe: Sunshine from the Italian Kitchen There’s something beautifully simple about Lemon Ricotta Cookies. They don’t need fancy ingredients or decoration to shine. Soft, tender, and full of bright lemon flavor, these cookies bring the feeling of a warm Italian afternoon where the air smells of sugar, zest, and love. Lemon Ricotta Cookies originated in southern Italy,…
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Soft Lemon Cookies (Biscotti al Limone)
Soft Italian Lemon Cookies: Sunshine in Every Bite Picture this: you take a bite of a soft, tender cookie, and there it is just the right whisper of lemon. It’s bright, fragrant, and honestly, a bit magical. That’s what Biscotti al Limone is all about. Now, don’t get it twisted; these aren’t the crunchy biscotti you dip in your coffee….
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Almond Ricotta Cookies Recipe
Almond Ricotta Cookies – Perfect for Holidays or Every Day I enjoy making these delicious Italian Almond Ricotta Cookies because they’re incredibly soft, bursting with almond flavor, and so easy to whip up! This simple almond ricotta cookie recipe combines creamy ricotta cheese with a touch of almond extract to create a light, bakery-style treat that melts in your mouth….
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Genovesi Ericine Recipe – Sicilian Cookies
Authentic Sicilian Genovesi Pastry Recipe Erice, a medieval hilltop town in western Sicily, feels like a place out of time. Stone alleys twist between ancient buildings. The sea sparkles far below. But beyond the views and the history, Erice hides something sweeter: Genovesi Ericine. These golden, half-moon pastries look simple. A dusting of powdered sugar. A soft, buttery shell. But…
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Brutti ma Buoni: “Ugly but Good” Cookies”
Brutti ma buoni: Traditional Italian Meringue Cookies Brutti ma Buoni means “ugly but good” in Italian. These rustic, nutty meringue cookies come from Northern Italy. Most believe they were first made in Gavirate, Lombardy, in the late 1800s. Pastry chef Costantino Veniani created the original recipe. They’re made with just a few ingredients, whipped egg whites, sugar, and toasted hazelnuts…
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Esse di Raveo Recipe (S-shaped cookies)
Esse di Raveo: S-Shaped Cookies from the Italian Alps From the quiet mountain village of Raveo, nestled in Friuli-Venezia Giulia, comes a cookie that’s as charming as it is delicious: the Esse di Raveo. These cookies date back to the 1920s, when local baker Emilio Bonanni first created them. Inspired by tradition and simple ingredients, he shaped the dough into…
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Ciambelle al Vino: Wine Cookies
Italian Wine Cookies: Ciambelle al Vino Walk through the hills of central Italy or join a village festa, and you’ll likely spot Ciambelle al Vino (Italian Wine Cookies), crunchy, ring-shaped cookies with deep roots in Italian tradition. More than just a treat, these simple cookies carry the soul of rustic Italian baking. Each one tells a story of family, heritage,…
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Biscotti alla Cannella (Cinnamon Cookies)
Cinnamon Cookies Recipe: Biscotti alla Cannella You know, there’s just something about cinnamon that feels like a hug from the inside out. It’s that warm, nostalgic scent that drifts through the kitchen, clinging to your sweater, curling around your senses and for a moment, everything slows down. Now imagine that cozy spice wrapped up in a golden, crunchy biscotti. That’s…
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