Cucidati (Sicilian Fig-Filled Cookies)

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These are a spot of a task to marque but worthy each infinitesimal of it. Assembly takes the astir time, though it's casual if you disagreement the enactment among a fewer sets of hands.

We recovered that this magnitude of dough was excessively overmuch to process arsenic a azygous batch successful a 7-cup nutrient processor. If that's what you have, premix fractional of the dough ingredients astatine a clip (in 2 batches), past lightly knead the doughs unneurotic earlier wrapping and refrigerating. You'll request a full of 4 baking sheets.

The dough tin beryllium refrigerated for up to 4 days. The filling tin beryllium refrigerated for up to 1 week. The cookies tin beryllium stored betwixt sheets of wax insubstantial successful an airtight instrumentality for up to 10 days oregon frozen for up to 1 month.

From New York pastry cook and cookbook writer Nick Malgieri.

Ingredients

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Servings: 60  cookies

For the dough

  • 4 cups flour (spoon flour into a dry-measure cupful and level it off), positive much for the enactment surface
  • 2/3 cupful sugar
  • 2 teaspoons baking powder
  • 1 spoon salt
  • 16 tablespoons (2 sticks) acold unsalted butter, chopped into 16 pieces
  • 4 ample eggs

For the filling

  • 12 ounces dried Calimyrna figs, stemmed and diced
  • 1/4 cupful acheronian oregon aureate raisins
  • 1/4 cupful candied orangish peel, coarsely chopped
  • 1/4 cupful blanched almonds, toasted and coarsely chopped (see NOTE)
  • 1/4 cupful conifer nuts, toasted (see NOTE)
  • 2 ounces semisweet chocolate, coarsely chopped
  • 1/4 cupful apricot preserves
  • 1/4 cupful acheronian rum
  • 1 spoon instant espresso powder
  • 1/2 spoon crushed cinnamon
  • 1/4 spoon crushed cloves

For assembly

  • 1 ample egg, good beaten
  • Kosher salt
  • Multicolored nonpareils, for decorating

Nutritional Facts

Per cookie

  • Calories

    103

  • Fat

    4 g

  • Saturated Fat

    2 g

  • Carbohydrates

    15 g

  • Sodium

    63 mg

  • Cholesterol

    8 mg

  • Protein

    2 g

  • Fiber

    1 g

  • Sugar

    7 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

From New York pastry cook and cookbook writer Nick Malgieri.

Tested by Bonnie S. Benwick.

Published December 3, 2013

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Updated March 14, 2026

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