Recipe for Italian cookies, lady fingers? Picture added

[Jessd]

Hi!

I have been looking for a recipe for Italian cookies. At the church carnivals they call them lady fingers, but a bakery nearby just calls them Italian cookies.

They are frosted and I have seen vanilla, strawberry and chocolate. I don't know if I have the right name because I have searched the net and couldn't come up with anything.

Can anyone help?

Thanks!

 

[paintnolish]

Are the colors all in one cookie? I have had spumoni cookies (pistachio, cherry, and chocolate).

 

[Jessd]

Are the colors all in one cookie? I have had spumoni cookies (pistachio, cherry, and chocolate).

No, they are all seperate, they come in different flavors. They are soft inside and the tops are frosted. I don't know how to explain them.

 

[monorailsilver]

We make Italian cookies that are soft inside & have icing on the top (confec. sugar) & then shots/non-pareils.

But they aren't flavored differently.

I don't have a picture & we just call them Italian cookies.

Did you try All Recipes to look up lady fingers?

 

[dawson5]

lady fingers are what they put in tiramisu. i've never seen them come in colors like what you are describing. They are crisp (can't think of a better word to describe it) and not at all like a cookie, with a light dusting of sugar on top.

This is what I was always told was lady fingers.

I can ask my mom later, she might know what you are talking about. We have a small Italian bakery in South Bend that makes all kinds of traditional cookies, never seen anything like that there either.

 

[Jessd]

Thank you so much! I did look up Lady Fingers, but everything that comes up are like in Tiramisu and I know that those are not it. These cookies are not spongy.

I will try to go to the bakery this afternoon and get one so I can take a picture.

 

[antmaril]

I think I know which cookies you mean. They are definitely not a lady finger. If they are the ones I'm thinking of, they are a VERY dry cookie with a kind of glaze coating, but I don't think they really have a flavor. I think the cookies are colored (white, pink or brown) but not flavored. They are long and thick. We can get them in most of the Italian bakeries in our area.

I love Italian cookies. My dad would buy them quite often when he would get fresh bread at the Italian bakery. We actually had huge platters of them at my wedding many moons ago. They have gotten VERY expensive.

Now, I need a cookie!

 

[Jessd]

I think I know which cookies you mean. They are definitely not a lady finger. If they are the ones I'm thinking of, they are a VERY dry cookie with a kind of glaze coating, but I don't they really have a flavor. I think the cookies are colored (white, pink or brown) but not flavored. They are long and thick. We can get them in most of the Italian bakeries in our area.

I love Italian cookies. My dad would buy them quite often when he would get fresh bread at the Italian bakery. We actually had huge platters of them at my wedding many moons ago. They have gotten VERY expensive.

Now, I need a cookie!

Those are it!!!! That sounds exactly like the ones I am talking about it. I don't know what exactly they are called, but I wanted a recipe for Christmas.

 

[lovemygoofy]

I think I know which cookies you mean. They are definitely not a lady finger. If they are the ones I'm thinking of, they are a VERY dry cookie with a kind of glaze coating, but I don't they really have a flavor. I think the cookies are colored (white, pink or brown) but not flavored. They are long and thick. We can get them in most of the Italian bakeries in our area.

I love Italian cookies. My dad would buy them quite often when he would get fresh bread at the Italian bakery. We actually had huge platters of them at my wedding many moons ago. They have gotten VERY expensive.

Now, I need a cookie!

Those are it!!!! That sounds exactly like the ones I am talking about it. I don't know what exactly they are called, but I wanted a recipe for Christmas.

Are you talking about shortbread cookies? I know that I have a receipe for some that are a bit dry and crunchy. I make them and put in a coffee basket since I really don't make biscotti.

 

[SamRoc]

I know exactly what you are talking about. I will ask my aunt for the recipe!

 

[sandramaac]

I have a recipe for them!!! We glaze them white, and add a red hot candy on top (what my mother in law always did). I will post it later tonight. I also have a wonderful ricotta cookie recipe--soft and cake like, that I glaze pink and add non-pariels, just a fantastic cookie.

I bake about 18 to 20 different cookies at xmas-each year I do one new cookie each year and we decide if we keep it for the next year or not.

 

[dawson5]

Now you're throwing me. Our bakery makes long finger-like cookies that are filled/sandwiched with chocolate cream of some sort, raspberry or strawberry (I think), three different fillings. The cookie is not quite a shortbread though, it's lighter than that (our bakery's is at least). The chocolate filled ones are end-dipped in chocolate, the raspberry also but I think the strawberry is just dusted with confectionary sugar. I used to have a picture of them (youngest wanted to tease his brothers), if I can find it, I will post it.

 

[dawson5]

I found something similar.

http://goosiegirlboutique.com/blog/?p=117

second picture, bottom of the screen on the right, with chocolate dipped. Is that it?

 

[Jessd]

I found something similar.

http://goosiegirlboutique.com/blog/?p=117

second picture, bottom of the screen on the right, with chocolate dipped. Is that it?

They definitely are not shortbread. I will go grab a few at lunch and post a pic.

 

[Cindy's Mom]

They're butter cookies. I live in a HUGE Italian neighborhood and we have these on basically every corner. Butter cookies.

They range in price from bakery to bakery, some charge $7 a pound others charge $15 a pound. I think the $7 ones are made with " can't believe its not butter" While the $15 ones are made with 100 pounds of butter.

Mostly I just go in, buy a loaf of bread and 2-3 cookies. I can eat them on the way home and the DH never has to know about it

 

[msmouse]

Do they have a licorice flavor? I have an Italian Anise Seed cookie that I adore! Real crumbly and I do put a lite glaze on them.

 

[Cindy's Mom]

Do they have a licorice flavor? I have an Italian Anise Seed cookie that I adore! Real crumbly and I do put a lite glaze on them.

My mother makes these. She makes her glaze with powered sugar and water. She put a drop or two of anise extract in it too. yummo!

 

[antmaril]

Are you talking about shortbread cookies? .[/QUmakeOTE]

They are definitely not a shortbread cookie. I really don't think they have much butter in them, because they are very dry.

 

[Jessd]

Ok, I went to the bakery and bought a cookie. This is the vanilla one but they also had strawberry and chocolate.

 

[dawson5]

those don't look like anything I've ever seen before. I'm stumped.

My mother makes an orange cookie that is shaped liked that with a glaze (confectionary sugar, water/milk, orange liqueur or extract). They are just dollops though, that is the only similarity. If I get a chance later, I'll forward this on to my brother and see if he'll show it to her. She might know.