Recipe: Tasty Italian Wedding Cookies

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Italian Wedding Cookies At Italian weddings, there is often a sweets table in addition to the cake, laden with cookies and other treats for the guests. It's a tradition that works just as well for a holiday party, and front and center on your table should be Giada's Italian wedding cookies- they melt-in-your-mouth! The Italian Wedding Cookie Recipe makes it's appearance at Bridal Showers, Baby Showers, and during the Christmas Holidays. You can have Italian Wedding Cookies using 13 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Italian Wedding Cookies

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

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. Freezing: These cookies store and freeze well. Give these Italian wedding cookies a try this week!

Italian Wedding Cookies step by step

  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..

I love that you can use different color sprinkles for various occasions year round. We love to make Italian Christmas cookies with red and green sprinkles. Pastels are so pretty in Spring or for Easter. Use pink or blue for baby showers or gender reveal parties. Italian wedding cookies are a wonderful introduction to the ease and fun of holiday baking, especially if you want to throw in an international twist.