Recipe: Tasty Italian Wedding Cookies

Italian Wedding Cookies. These buttery bites are delicious with coffee or tea. Footnotes Partner Tip; Reynolds® parchment can be used for easier cleanup/removal from the pan. Nutrition Facts Easy and quick, this is the best Italian wedding cookies recipe ever. Loaded with walnuts and hazelnuts and coated in fluffy powder sugar like a snowball, these Italian cookies are sure to steal everybody's heart! Cream butter or margarine in a bowl, gradually add confectioners' sugar and salt.

You can freeze Italian wedding cookies! Italian Cookies aka Italian Wedding Cookies. Have you ever tried Italian Wedding Cookies before? You can cook Italian Wedding Cookies using 13 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Italian Wedding Cookies

1. You need 2 sticks of butter softened.
2. It's 3/4 cup of sugar.
3. Prepare 1/2 cup of 10x sugar.
4. You need 3 of eggs.
5. You need 2 Tbs of oil.
6. You need 1/4 cup of milk.
7. You need 1 Tbs of lemon Extract.
8. Prepare 4 3/4 cup of flour (this varies).
9. Prepare 2 Tbs of baking powder.
10. You need of Frosting for Italian wedding cookies.
11. Prepare 2 cups of 10x sugar.
12. You need 2 1/2 Tbs of water.
13. You need 1 Tbs of Lemon extract.

Italian cookies are traditionally flavored with anise, but no one in my family likes the taste of black licorice, so I used almond instead, which is a common substitute for a more Americanized Italian cookie version. The Italian Wedding Cookie Recipe makes it's appearance at Bridal Showers, Baby Showers, and during the Christmas Holidays. They are easy to make and only require just a few ingredients. I like to use an unsalted European style butter and a really good vanilla extract.

Italian Wedding Cookies instructions

1. Preheat oven to 375°. Mix butter and regular sugar until creamy..
2. Add 3 eggs, oil, and milk..
3. Add the lemon extract and mix, then add the 10x sugar..
4. Add in baking powder blend in. Then add one cup of flour at a time. You may need to add more than the 4 3/4 cup. Dough should not be sticky..
5. Roll into 1 inch balls and bake 10-12 minutes. Bottoms will be brown..
6. Make frosting for cookies while first batch is in. When cookies are done dunk the top of cookie in frosting let excess frosting drizle off. Sprinkle with sugar sprinkes you can use various different colors..

Freezing: These cookies store and freeze well. T he Italian Wedding Cookie Recipe is one of those traditional Italian Cookie Recipes. It has a few variations from the traditional recipe used in many cultures. To say this cookie is ONLY Italian would be narcissistic. You may know them as Russian tea cakes or Mexican wedding cookies.