Delicious and very sweet for all ages, biscuits are a must in many Italian regions. A moment to be enjoyed in the company of loved ones for the Christmas holidays that will continue to carry all the tradition with them, even in the distance. But let's see together six recipes for Italian Christmas cookies, which you can make at home.
1. Neapolitan Roccocò, one of the best biscuits of the Christmas period… tooth-proof!
Typical Neapolitan biscuits, these Neapolitan delicacies are known in the Campania tradition to be enjoyed throughout the Christmas season. The original recipe calls for the use of flour, sugar, almonds or hazelnuts with grated peel of oranges and fresh lemons, even better if from the Campania coast. But fear not, some also use essences, easily available in supermarkets.
Once the ingredients have been mixed with water, sugar and ammonia, there is nothing left to do but knead, with great force! The roccocò have the typical shape of a donut and are suitable at Christmas time also because they are happy to accompany sweet wine and after dinner. At a temperature of 180 degrees you can then put your biscuits to cook for about twenty minutes. By letting them cool, you will have a very good result.
2. Mustaccioli
Mustaccioli are among the favorite Christmas cookies of the Campania tradition. They are covered with very sweet chocolate and they have a very soft heart. These biscuits get their name from the use of the must in their original preparation and inside them they contain a delicious heart of honey and raisins. Some recent variations, which meet the changing taste, require the cookies to be covered with white chocolate icing and candied inside.
3. Susamielli, typically Campania Christmas cookies
These S-shaped or infinity-shaped cookies are other typical sweets of the Neapolitan tradition. It is no coincidence that Campania offers many ideas for Christmas cookies. Meanwhile, we can say that the Susamiellis are gods typical honey biscuits, similarly to the Roccocò dough, inside there is a dose of eggs, sugar, a mixture of Christmas spices and almonds that are also found on the outside of the biscuit.
4. Mix cookies, not just at Christmas
The mixture biscuits are a classic of the Genoese tradition. Ideal to accompany tea, they are also suitable for enriching the Christmas period. I am shortbread butter cookies, ready to be cooked in less than ten minutes.
5. Calciuni Molisani, Christmas filled biscuits
If Christmas is serious in Molise, sweets are even more so! This Molise biscuit specialty is suitable for pampering moments on the sweetest days of the year, and again as a special gift idea. They are shaped cookies ravioli filled with chestnut cream, dark chocolate and more dried fruit, sprinkled with icing sugar.
6. Carteddate pugliesi, Christmas cookies that give energy and charge!
Of course, Puglia also has its typical biscuits with delicious creations in Fried shortcrust pastry filled with honey and cooked must. The Apulian Carteddate are the last of the six Italian Christmas cookies we have imagined for you, but the goodies are truly endless!
