A Christmas kitchen, Italian style

A little tradition.
A generous cookie tray.

Discover almond-rich sweets, tender glazed cookies and crisp biscotti. 150 recipes to bake, gift and share throughout the Christmas season.

Start your Christmas cookie tray

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Choose crisp biscotti for make-ahead gifts, glaze soft cookies close to serving, and keep delicate almond cookies in their own tin.