Ricotta Cheese Cookies

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These Italian cookies are tender and caky, acknowledgment to the ricotta, but not astatine each cheesy. They're truthful moist that different kinds of cookies stored with them volition rapidly crook limp –- thing to support successful caput if you are giving them arsenic portion of an assortment.

The look makes a batch of cookies; it tin easy beryllium halved.

Because we deliberation the holidays request color, we tinted the glaze a bright, non-traditional blue. You tin marque it immoderate colour -- oregon permission it plain, which is traditional. Don't store the frosted cookies successful an airtight container; the moistness of the cookies volition origin the glaze to run.

The batter tin beryllium made a time successful advance, covered with integrative wrapper pressed straight onto the surface, and refrigerated. The cookies tin beryllium stored successful a non-airtight instrumentality for 2 weeks.

Adapted from a look by Alba Johnson, a cooking instructor, cookbook writer and idiosyncratic cook successful Shady Side.

Ingredients

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Servings: 80 1 1/2-inch cookies

For the cookies

  • Pinch salt
  • 1 spoon baking soda
  • 4 cups flour
  • 16 tablespoons (2 sticks) unsalted butter, softened
  • 2 cups granulated sugar
  • 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
  • 15 ounces ricotta cheese
  • 2 ample eggs, lightly beaten
  • Freshly grated zest of 2 mean lemons (4 to 6 teaspoons)
  • 1 spoon finely chopped caller rosemary, oregon much to taste

For the glaze

  • 1 cupful confectioners' sugar
  • Freshly squeezed citrus foodstuff from 1 citrus (about 3 tablespoons)
  • Food coloring (optional)
  • Colored sweetener sprinkles, for garnish (optional)

Nutritional Facts

Per cookie

  • Calories

    80

  • Fat

    3 g

  • Saturated Fat

    2 g

  • Carbohydrates

    11 g

  • Sodium

    30 mg

  • Cholesterol

    15 mg

  • Protein

    1 g

  • Sugar

    6 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.

Adapted from a look by Alba Johnson, a cooking instructor, cookbook writer and idiosyncratic cook successful Shady Side.

Tested by Jane Touzalin.

Published December 11, 2012

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Updated March 14, 2026

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