Sicilian Chocolate Spice Cookies
These very chocolate cookies are flavored with holiday spices of cinnamon and cloves and covered in a chocolate glaze.
Ingredients
- 1 cup plain tea biscuit cookies, ground into coarse crumbs
- 1 to 1-1/4 cups milk
- 4 cups unbleached all purpose flour
- 1 cup sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1/3-cup Crisco or lard, melted
- 4-tablespoons butter, melted
- 1- tablespoon honey
- 1- tablespoon orange marmalade
- 7/8 cup unsweetened cocoa
- None
- 1-tablespoon ground cinnamon
- 1-tablespoon vanilla extract
- 1-teaspoon baking powder
- Chocolate glaze:
- 1- cup dark chocolate
- 4-tablespoons butter
- 1-1/2 cups coarsely crushed pistachio nuts
Directions
- Makes about 28 large cookies
- Put the cookie crumbs in a medium bowl, just barely covering them with milk. Allow them to sit and soak until the crumbs have absorbed the milk, then stir well until the mixture reaches a creamy consistency
- In a separate large bowl, mix together the rest of the ingredients. Add the milk-soaked crumbs to the mixture and combine well. At this point add more milk into the batter, a little at a time, and using a wooden spoon stir until the mixture reaches the consistency of a thick paste, like that of pastry cream. The amount of milk you add will depend on the type of cookie crumbs used, but the amount will likely be approximately 1-1/2 to 2-cups. Look for a somewhat loose and creamy consistency that still holds its shape on a spoon and is not runny or liquid. Let the batter rest for one hour.
- Preheat the oven to 325F.
- Line several baking sheets with parchment paper. Use a ¼-cup measure or scoop and form the batter into rounds spacing them 1-inch apart.
- Bake for approximately 10 to 15 minutes or until the tops of the cookies appear dry. Remove them from the oven and cool completely on a cooling rack. Begin making the glaze only when the cookies have cooled and you are ready to frost them.
- To make the glaze, melt the chocolate and butter together using a double boiler on low heat, stirring constantly. Once the chocolate has completely melted and the consistency of the glaze is a thin liquid, remove it from the heat and pour into a bowl. Dip the top of each cookie into the glaze, coating the surface evenly, and then return them to the cooling rack to dry. Sprinkle the tops of each cookie with some of the pistachio nuts while the glaze is still warm. Let cookies cool completely on a cooling rack.
- Recipe from "Ciao Italia, My Lifelong Food Adventures in Italy"
This recipe was featured on Season 28 - Episode 2820.
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