Italian Cookies

Did you mean the Italian Rainbow Cookies AKA Venetians  ?  These I made last Christmas.  This has Almond Paste in it.. VERY good..

I know them well, they're in every pastry shop here, and in every italian bakery in the states.  But i always hated them so I never looked for a recipe for them! 

here';s a recipe in grams from an italian website, translated.  But you';ll have to find the equivalences of each ingredient which is by weight in grams and find what it is in cups, so flour will be different from butter, etc.  I can't vouch for the website, but at least the procedure is described correctly, which is usually not the case for italian recipes, so it might be good. 

here's the link with a picture, and the translation is below

http://it.paperblog.com/spritz-alla-vaniglia-633723/

190 gm butter at room temp

225 gm flour (cake flour is most similar to italian flour)

75 gms powdered sugar

1 stick of vanilla

1 egg white

a pinch of salt

Preheat oven to 160 Centigrade (look online for Fahrenheit)

Beat the butter and sugar, scrape the seeds of the vanilla into it (they don't have vanilla extract here, so you could use that instead), and add the salt.  Add the egg white and beat it in, and then add the sifted flour, mixing quickly. 

Put the mixture into a pastry bag or a spritz cookie syringe and squeeze out small cookies.

bake max 10 minutes. 

see if this works. 

Sounds like a Pepperidge farm Milano Type cookie.  Or a form of Cats Tongue cookie. Both are piped

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Originally Posted by chefedb 

Sounds like a Pepperidge farm Milano Type cookie.  Or a form of Cats Tongue cookie. Both are piped

I believe the milano cookies are a little crisper - these are extremely crumbly, they just easily crumble and mush up in the mouth, though they;re not really "melt in your mouth" types.  Not cat's tongue either, which may be piped but have less structure.  These are actually a type of spritz cookie, that keeps the star-point ridges when cooked, they don;t melt down flat.  Take a look at the picture in the link. 

You can sandwich jam between them, or melted chocolate, or dip them in chocolate (usually half way), or put crumbled hazelnut or non pareils on top before baking, and other things.  As I say, i dislike them so my view of them is not positive at all.  But i know lots of people love them. 

I have been looking for a "faux"  Milano cookies recipe,  but the ones I have tried does not even come close to Pepperidge..

I am also looking for a Milano cookie recipe like Pepperidge and not short bread cookies..  thank you for sharing you recipe..