These beautiful cookies are made with rich delicious ricotta cheese and they are traditionally made during the Christmas and Easter holidays. The ricotta cheese creates a soft cake-like cookie and the citrus frosting is a perfect topping that just melts in your mouth….bet you can’t eat just one! Make up a tray for a party or gift giving!
Spoon a teaspoonful of batter in rows onto a parchment lined cookie sheet
bake cookies in the oven at 350 degrees for approximately 12 minutes or until bottom has turned a light brown.
Let the cookies cool on a rack and then dip them into the citrus frosting
sprinkle them with colorful sprinkles and let frosting dry before placing them in storage containers.
enjoy a couple with a cup of your favorite tea or coffee. so comforting.
Ricotta Cheese Cookies
Course: Desserts20
minutes10
minutesIngredients
1/2 lb butter, softened
2 cups sugar
1 lb (16 oz) whole milk ricotta cheese
2 large eggs
2 tbsp. vanilla extract
4 cups all-purpose flour
1 tsp. salt
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp baking powder
- Citrus Glaze
1 cup powdered confectioners sugar
1/4 cup water or milk
zest of a lemon or orange
colorful sprinkles
Directions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
- Cream together butter and sugar and then beat in ricotta cheese, eggs and vanilla extract until mixture is well blended
- In a separate bowl, sift together flour, salt, baking soda and baking powder.
- Slowly add flour mixture into wet ingredients and mix together until combined.
- Drop a teaspoon of dough onto greased cookie sheet.
- Bake for approximately 10 minutes or until bottoms on lightly browned.
- Transfer cookies to cooling rack and let cool before icing.
- Prepare glaze by mixing powdered sugar and water or milk and then add zest. Glaze coat a spoon and not be too watery.
- Dip each cookie into citrus sugar glaze and then sprinkle each cookie with rainbow sprinkle
- After glaze sets, the cookies can be stored in a covered ceramic jar or plastic container.
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