Restaurant Recipe Reviews

Easter celebrations definitely provide a delicious food for you to eat and enjoy. Taste buds are given wonderful treat during Italian holidays by virtue of the Italians’ love for eating. A formalized holiday cuisine has developed in Italy over the years.

Italians have different food items that are specific to each holiday. The Easter cuisine is one of the most rich and exciting holiday cuisines from the country both in terms of taste and colour. The Easter holiday cuisine sure captures the festive spirit on high of the Italians.

The cuisine for the day consists of various items ranging from main courses to antipasti and tea time delights. Among the various Italian specialities of the day are Italian Easter cookies. These cookies are so exceptional that they are now held in high esteem all around the world.

The Christians and the non-Christians equally enjoy the Italian Easter cookies. Some variations are seen in the method of preparation of these cookies cross the different regions of Italy. The basics are the same of course regarding the methodology involved in the making of the cookies.

Icing of the cookies can be done too if you are interested in adding festive colours to them. This can be done of course after the preparation is over. This process of icing is done to provide more charm and attraction to the very look of the cookies. If you are more interested in tasting the Italian Easter cookies let us learn step by step its method of preparation.

As far as the ingredients are concerned we have to use those that are generally used across the world in the preparation of cookies. The addition of some traditional ingredients is essential in the case of the making of the Italian Easter cookies. The regular ingredients consists of milk, flour, eggs, vanilla extract, butter, vegetable oil, baking powder, sugar, almond extract and colouring which of course is optional in the preparation of the Italian Easter cookies.

You should start by preheating your oven to 350 degrees. Then take out your cookie sheets and adequately grease them out. Take out a large bowl and add the sugar and butter to mix it to become light and fleecy. Next you will need to beat in the eggs into the mixture. But this should be done one by one.

Milk and oil have to be added to a mixture of vanilla essence and almond extract. Combine the flour with the baking powder and then add them together in the wet mixture. Roll the dough that is finally formed into 1 inch balls. These balls have to be rolled into 5 inch long ropes on a lightly floured surface. Separate them to the tune of one inch each and tie them loosely.

The initial baking process is for five minutes on the top shelf of an oven and for five minutes again on the bottom shelf. The cookies by now would have turned brown in colour. When they have cooled down enjoy them after sinking them into the icing.

Italian Easter cookies are a great treat especially loved by the kids. To read more about the many different Easter traditions in Italy click on the links.