Italian Cookies Recipes
If you are looking forward to experiment with some new delight for the snack time, I would recommend you to try any of the Italian cookies recipes. There are more than a dozen Italian cookies recipes. Cookies are indeed hard to bite but they are not so hard when it comes to making. Cookies are invariably loved by all and it is next to chocolate for many kids. So why don’t you try a chocolate cookie or try the almond cookies recipes? It is time you stuff your kid’s plate with enticing preparations of yours!
Traditional Italian cookies recipes help you prepare more yummy cookies and are simple too. This Italian chocolate cookie recipe I’m going to tell you about is simple too. The ingredients are standard ones and are very much the same as is used in all cookies – flour, baking soda, butter, sugar, vanilla, milk, etc. Now let us take a look at the additional ingredients thrown in by Italian chocolate cookie recipes – cocoa powder, walnuts, chocolate and confectioners’ sugar.
Make sure that you buy unsweetened cocoa and chocolate. The butter needs to be softened. Make sure you use hot milk. These are some of the unique points that you need to make a note of in the chocolate Italian cookies recipes.
As with any other cookie preparation, preheat the oven to 375°. Do not use the flour as such. Make sure you stir it well and sort it out through a sieve. Now measure 3 cups of flour and add 4 teaspoons baking powder, more than half a cup of sugar and half a cup of unsweetened cocoa. To this mix, add melted butter. Use hands to mix the flour mix well. Now pour milk. One third cup of milk will be fine. Add one teaspoon of vanilla and mix the dough thoroughly. You can add nuts if you desire.
Now after the mix is well blended, you can start making small balls. If the mix is sticky, just add some more flour and mix. Take greased cookie sheets and spread these cookie balls on them. After a while, bake them in oven till they become brown in colour. The Italian cookies recipes suggest ten minutes of baking. After this, let them cool.
Now when the cookies cool, prepare chocolate frosting in the meantime. Take chocolate pieces and melt them. Add butter and vanilla one tablespoon each. Add two cups of confectioners’ sugar and beat in milk. Now pour these chocolate frosting onto the cooled cookie balls.