Sicilian almond cookies stacked on plate - Jessica Morone/Tasting Table It's pretty much impossible to have too many cookie recipes, as each one offers a unique combination of flavors that deserves to ...

Think of cuccidati as a more mature Fig Newton. The classic Sicilian cookies make an appearance around Christmastime, filling flaky dough with a fig or mixed-fruit jam. Enjoyed as is or smeared with ...

Most of the Italian cookies that New Orleanians recognize as symbols of the season come from Sicily, and the cookies themselves tell tales of the Sicilian homeland. Pignoli cookies are made with the ...

I thought that it would be fun to mix it up at the table a little bit. We still want easy dishes, but there is no reason not to also make them innovative and tasty. Familiar doesn’t have to be boring.

Along with the holiday season comes holiday cookie baking. At The Times, we like to offer bakers new additions to their cookie repertoires. Check out, for example, cooking columnist Ben Mims’ “12 Days ...

Make room in your recipe box for your new favorite cookies. Italy has no shortage of rich and sweet cookies, and we've collected some of our top-rated recipes that need to be made. From biscotti to ...

Italian holiday cookies from Garibaldina Society members: clockwise from the left, pizzelle, "Brick" cookies, cuccidati, cartellate, pignoli and "Versace" rainbow cookies. (Silvia Razgova / For The ...

The Sons & Daughters of Italy and C. Colombo Lodge 1315 will host its annual Cuccidati Contest and Italian cookie sale and festival on Nov. 12 at a new venue, the Pittsburg Youth Development Center.

Expressions of Italian heritage this time of year are usually not subtle. It’s the heaping helping of pasta and sauce, the zooma-zooma music of Louis Prima, the St. Joseph’s Day parade filling the ...