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Tender Italian Sugar Cookies Recipe

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These traditional cookies are moist and tender. To tie into the colors of the Italian flag, you could tint the icing, red, green and white.

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Tender Italian Sugar Cookies Recipe

Prep: 20 min. Bake: 10 min./batch + cooling

Yield: 36 Servings

20 10 30

Ingredients

3/4 cup shortening
3/4 cup sugar
3 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
3 cups all-purpose flour
3 teaspoons baking powder
1/8 teaspoon salt
ICING:
1/4 cup milk
2 tablespoons butter, melted
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
2-1/2 cups confectioners' sugar
Food coloring and colored sugar, optional

Directions

In a large bowl, cream shortening and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in eggs and vanilla. Combine the flour, baking powder and salt; gradually add to creamed mixture and mix well.
Shape dough into 1-1/2-in. balls. Place 1 in. apart on ungreased baking sheets. Bake at 400° for 8-10 minutes or until lightly browned. Remove to wire racks to cool.
For icing, in a small bowl, combine the milk, butter, vanilla and confectioners' sugar until smooth. Tint with food coloring if desired. Dip the tops of cookies in icing; allow excess to drip off. Sprinkle with colored sugar if desired. Place on waxed paper; let stand until set. Yield: 3 dozen.

Nutritional Facts 1 each equals 136 calories, 5 g fat (2 g saturated fat), 20 mg cholesterol, 54 mg sodium, 21 g carbohydrate, trace fiber, 2 g protein.

Originally published as Tender Italian Sugar Cookies in Taste of Home's Holiday & Celebrations Cookbook Annual 2006, p11

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Reviewed on Dec. 22, 2010 by countrygirl_717

Also, I did not find that I needed more powdered sugar in my icing. It was quite thick actually, and at one point I thought about adding a tad of milk to thin it up a bit.

Reviewed on Dec. 22, 2010 by countrygirl_717

This is my absolute favorite of all the new recipes I made this year. I'm sure it will become one that I make each year. Which is funny because this is the recipe that I wasn't sure I would like, haha! The cookies are so tender, they literally melt in your mouth, and frosting them is so easy, because you just dip the tops in the frosting and sprinkle on the sugars! I made mine the same colors and the picture and they look so elegant, I can't wait to share them with my family this Christmas! (If I don't eat them all first!)

Reviewed on Jan. 07, 2010 by GoOnAndTry

Best Italian cookie I have tasted in years. Very tender and exceptionally easy to make. One batch is NOT enought so save yourself time and double it the first time.