Ricotta Cookies
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These cookies are like little tasty pillows, soft, melt in your mouth, delicious iced pillows! They are so versatile because they can be decorated with any kind of sugars and sprinkles and you can add flavoring to the dough, like lemon or maple. They're also quick and easy, this recipe makes 100 cookies, so great for a cookie exchange.
Author: Ruth Guerri
Recipe type: Cookies
Cuisine: Italian
Serves: 100
Ingredients
- 1 cup of butter, softened
- 2 cups of white sugar
- 1 (15 oz) container of ricotta cheese
- 3 tsp of vanilla extract
- 2 eggs, room temperature
- ½ tsp of salt
- 2 tsp of baking powder
- 4 cups of flour
Glaze
- 1 cup of powdered sugar
- 1 - 2 Tbs of whole milk or cream
- sprinkles for decorating
Instructions
- Here we go! Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Beat sugar and butter, add in eggs, vanilla and ricotta, beat in flour, salt and baking powder. It will be sticky.
- Drop by teaspoons on an ungreased cookie sheet. Bake for 10 minutes until the bottoms turn golden brown.
- Let cool for 1 minute, then transfer to wire racks to cool. In a small saucepan, slowly stir the milk into powdered sugar until it creates a thin glaze, stir over low heat, then ice the cooled cookies. Decorate with sprinkles, all done!
Notes
If desired, flavoring and colors can be added to the glaze. ie; maple, amaretto, mint, orange, lemon etc.and can be coordinated with colors of glaze.
