7 Favorite Italian Holiday Cookies
7 Favorite Italian Holiday Cookies are the best and most authentic Italian Christmas desserts for your annual cookie trays!
I strongly believe that no holiday can be complete without an array of colorful, buttery, sweet cookies to devour and share. I am Italian, so it’s no surprise that I do tend to gravitate towards baking and cooking more Italian dishes than any other cuisine out there. For a couple of years now, I’ve been wanting to put together a post that has all of my favorite holiday Italian cookies together in one place so here is my list of 7 Favorite Italian Holiday Cookies. I realize over the years that many people solely bake Italian desserts for Christmas with maybe a few extras thrown in there.
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Come on, Italian cookies are the best, are they not? So, here are my carefully selected all-time favorites. I narrowed it down to 7 to keep the list short and sweet (no pun intended). A couple of them (the “S” cookies and the Macaroons) come from my husband’s late Italian grandmother who always made the best cookies. The Ricotta Peach cookies were actually a recipe I recreated from a cookie I had in Italy when we went to visit family back in 2007. My husband’s relatives owned a bakery and gave up a bunch of them to take home when we left to come back to the U.S. I vowed to recreate them at home if it was the last thing I did. It only took me 9 years to do!
I’m sure many of you have holiday traditions that center around the foods your grandmother or mother made while you were growing up, so you might even find some of your favorites in this list of 7 Favorite Italian Holiday Cookies . Enjoy, my friends!
Italian Ricotta “Peach” Cookies
Grandma’s Italian Almond Macaroons
Chocolate-Covered Almond Biscotti
Chocolate Chip Almond Biscotti
I remember seeing several of these before…and I’m really glad you posted them again! I’ve been tasked with making a cookie platter for a party, and your timing here is perfect. Also, 9 years to recreate that recipe? You are awesome, Ashley! #Respect Also, if there are any leftovers, I’ll gladly “dispose” of them for you. 🙂
Totally agree Italian cookies are the best! Never met one I didn’t like. Wonderful selection — but I’m a sucker for anything lemon, so you know which one I have my eye on. 🙂 BTW, I’m taking off for the rest of the year, so I want to wish you happy holidays!
Yup, those Italian Ricotta Cookies are the BEST!! I love this collection, Ashley! How fun if we could bake together!!
LOVE this! And cookies from your’s husband’s grandma? Totally checking those out!
What a great collection of cookies!
Those ricotta cookies look like perfection. Happy holidays!