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| Italian Ricotta Cheese Cookies |
Ricotta Cheese Cookies
The Washington Post, Dec 12, 2012
Holiday Cookies 2012- Course: Dessert
- Features: Make-Ahead Recipes, Holiday (Christmas)
Summary:
These Italian cookies are tender in addition to caky, thank yous to the ricotta, exactly non at all cheesy. They're in addition to thence moist that other kinds of cookies stored alongside them volition chop-chop plough limp –- something to function along inwards heed if yous are giving them equally role of an assortment.The recipe makes a lot of cookies; it tin easily live halved.
Because nosotros intend the holidays demand color, nosotros tinted the glaze a bright, non-traditional blue. You tin larn inwards whatever color -- or function out it plain, which is traditional. Don't shop the frosted cookies inwards an airtight container; the moistness of the cookies volition crusade the glaze to run.
MAKE AHEAD: The batter tin live made a twenty-four hr catamenia inwards advance, covered alongside plastic roll pressed straight onto the surface, in addition to refrigerated. The cookies tin live stored inwards a non-airtight container for two weeks.
Makes close lxxx 1 1/2-inch cookies
Ingredients:
For the cookies- Pinch tabular array salt
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 4 cups flour
- 16 tablespoons (2 sticks) unsalted butter, softened
- 2 cups granulated saccharide
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- One 15-ounce container ricotta cheese
- 2 large eggs, lightly beaten
- Freshly grated zest of two medium lemons (4 to vi teaspoons)
- 1 teaspoon finely chopped fresh rosemary, or to a greater extent than to sense of savor
- 1 loving cup confectioners' saccharide
- Freshly squeezed lemon juice from 1 lemon (about iii tablespoons)
- Food coloring (optional)
- Colored saccharide sprinkles, for garnish (optional)
Directions:
For the cookies: Place racks inwards the transcend in addition to bottom thirds of the oven in addition to preheat to 350 degrees. Line two baking sheets alongside parchment paper.Combine the salt, baking soda in addition to flour inwards a medium bowl.
Beat the butter, saccharide in addition to vanilla extract inwards the bowl of a stand upwards mixer or hand-held electrical mixer on medium-high speed for iii to five minutes, until low-cal in addition to fluffy. Add the cheese, eggs, lemon zest in addition to rosemary; trounce for two to iii minutes, until thoroughly combined, scraping downwards the sides of the bowl equally needed. With the mixer on depression speed, gradually add together the flour mixture in addition to mix well. The dough should live slightly moist.
Drop the dough past times teaspoonfuls onto the prepared baking sheets, spacing them close two inches apart. Bake for close 10 minutes or until firm, rotating the pans from front end to dorsum in addition to transcend to bottom halfway through baking. The cookies should live golden on the bottom exactly stay white on top. Transfer to a wire rack to cool to room temperature. Repeat to utilisation all of the batter.
For the glaze: Place the confectioners’ saccharide inwards a medium bowl in addition to stir inwards plenty lemon juice to brand a thick paste. Add the nutrient coloring of your choice, if using, in addition to stir to blend. Thin alongside plenty additional lemon juice to create a glaze that tin live brushed onto the cookies. Lightly coat or drizzle the transcend of each cookie alongside the glaze in addition to add together sprinkles or other decorations, if desired. Allow the frosting to dry out completely earlier storing, loosely covered, for upwards to two weeks.
Recipe Source:
Adapted from a recipe past times Alba Johnson, a cooking instructor, cookbook writer in addition to personal chef inwards Shady Side. Tested past times Jane Touzalin for The Washington Post.
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