Best Ginetti Italian Puff Cookies Recipes

GRANDMA ROSES ITALIAN GENETTIS 1946

Steps:

• Beat eggs with oil and sugar five minutes.
• Combine the milk and anise flavour.
• Combine the flour and salt and baking powder.
• Add dry ingredients into wet ingredients.
• Make a soft, very soft dough.
• Soft but not sticky.
• If you add too much flour they will be dry cookies.
• Roll pieces of dough into finger lengths,and widths, and shape into a figure 8.
• Bake on parchment lined cookie sheet.
• Bake 350F for 8 to 10 minutes, just bottoms slightly golden.
• Tops should have no colour.
• Frost with a glaze of , icing powder, and anise flavour; drop of milk.

ANGINETTI COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
• In a mixing bowl beat sugar, vanilla, lemon peel and 6 tablespoons
• of butter with an electric mixer until well blended. Add eggs one
• at a time, beating well after each addition. Continue to beat for
• 1 minute.
• Stir in flour and baking powder (will be a soft, sticky dough).
• Spoon dough into a pastry bag fitted with a 3/8-inch round tip.
• Pipe 2-inch diameter rings onto the parchment paper.
• Wet your fingertips and press ends of each ring together to form
• a smooth ring. Bake about 20 minutes or until golden brown.
• To make icing: Melt 1 tablespoon of butter over low heat. Add
• sugar, water, lemon juice and vanilla and whisk until sugar melts
• and mixture is heated through. If icing is too thick to brush easily,
• add more water to thin. Remove cookies from oven and immediately
• brush warm icing over hot cookies. Cool iced cookies on sheet for
• 2 minutes. Transfer to a rack and cool completely.

ANGINETTI (ITALIAN LEMON DROP COOKIES)

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F.
• For cookies, cream together sugar and shortening.
• Add eggs and lemon extract and beat well.
• Add flour, baking powder and salt; Mix well.
• The dough should be soft and sticky.
• With a small cookie scoop, drop dough onto a slightly greased cookie sheet or baking stone, spacing them about 2-inches apart.
• Bake for about 12-15 minutes, or until firm and lightly brown.
• Remove cookies from cookie sheet and allow to cool completely on wire racks.
• For frosting, combine confectioners' sugar, water and lemon extract and mix until smooth.
• Frost the tops of each cookie with a metal spatula.
• Allow cookies to dry before stacking.
• Store in an airtight container.
• ~NOTE~If you want to freeze the cookies, freeze unfrosted and frost once thawed.

ANGINETTI CREAM PUFF COOKIES

Steps:

• Prepare anginetti by slicing off tops. Hold aside.
• Drain crushed pineapple, leaving a little juice.
• Mix sugar, whipped topping and cream cheese together in a bowl for 1 minute at medium speed.
• Add crushed pineapple and blend all 4 ingredients for about 1 minute at low speed.
• Drop filling from tablespoon onto bottom layers of cookies, replace top.
• Refrigerate puffs until ready to serve. Filling should be enough to fill all or most of cookies in the package.
• This recipe can be cut in half.

ANGINETTI

Steps:

• With a mixer, combine the granulated sugar, butter, olive oil and lemon zest . Add the eggs, one at a time, and continue to beat for 1 minute.
• Whisk together the flour, baking powder and salt, and mix into the lemon mixture until a soft dough forms. Cover the dough with plastic wrap and refrigerate, 1 hour.
• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F, and line 2 cookie sheets with parchment paper or silicone baking mats.
• Divide the dough into thirds. Cut each third in half, then repeat. (You should have 12 small pieces of dough.)
• On a surface lightly dusted with flour, roll each piece out into a 1/2-inch-thick log, then cut each into 3 pieces. Coil each piece into a small bun shape, bringing the end up over the top and pinching to seal. (Don't worry if they look funny; the glaze will cover any screw-ups.) Repeat with all the pieces, then arrange on the prepared cookie sheets at least 3 inches apart.
• Bake in batches, rotating the pans halfway through, 18 to 20 minutes. Set aside to cool completely, about 20 minutes.
• Place the confectioners' sugar in a small bowl and break up any large clumps with a whisk. Add the juice of 1/2 a lemon and whisk until a smooth glaze forms (if the glaze is too thick, add a bit more lemon juice; if it is too thin, add a bit more sugar).
• Dip the tops of each cookie into the glaze and allow the excess to drip back into the bowl. Place on a wire rack to dry, then store in an airtight container. Cookies will keep for 5 days at room temperature, or 3 weeks frozen.