Calabrian Collection

15 Calabrian Christmas Cookies from South Italy

15 Calabrian Christmas Cookies from South Italy - Curated Christmas cookie recipes from The Cookie Index.

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Almond Meringue Kisses

Star-piped crisp meringues with almond aroma and finely broken almond flakes on top, an Italian-style home variation.

Twice-baked almond cookies with a crisp bite and a little orange zest.

Hand-shaped almond butter crescents with a tender short crumb and a thin snowy sugar finish.

Small cutout frollini sandwiches with apricot centers showing through round windows and a fine sugar dusting.

Ridged cocoa-hazelnut kisses joined with a dark-chocolate ganache, inspired by Alassio's pastry tradition.

Lemon-scented Abruzzo-style wafer cookies cooked individually in a patterned ferratelle or pizzelle iron.

Golden almond biscotti with fragrant orange zest and crisp, diagonally sliced edges.

Soft ricotta cookies with almond flour and lightly toasted sliced-almond crowns, a home adaptation rather than almond paste biscuits.

An Italian-style crisp twice-baked cookie with lightly crushed anise seeds and small dark chocolate pockets.

Tender almond-scented dough knots with sliced almonds and a light sugar glaze, an Italian-style home adaptation.

Calabrian-style egg-dough rings, boiled, scored around their outer edge and baked before receiving an opaque egg-free lemon sugar coat.

Tiny hazelnut butter cookies joined with a neat layer of dark chocolate.

Calabrian-style shortcrust crescents filled with figs, raisins, nuts, cocoa and coffee, finished with an egg wash and colorful sprinkles.

Flat scalloped almond shortcrust rounds joined with dark-chocolate ganache, an Italian-style home sandwich cookie.

Solid almond-butter discs paired around a thin apricot-jam layer, an Italian-style home sandwich cookie.