It wouldn't be a holiday celebration without a few Italian Holiday Cookies for your cookie tray. Here's is a collection of Christmas Cookies that will fill your home with aromas that will make you think you have been transported to Little Italy in New York City.
Growing up my mother made tons of Christmas cookies, but we always looked forward to when my grandmother's box of cookies would arrive.
Grandma Santelli would send us her Italian Holiday Cookies. We loved unpacking that box of deliciousness! There was a huge container of her famous Pizzelle Cookies.
Make sure you check out a few of my family's favorite Italian Christmas cookies:
Christmas Cookie Packing Tips
Now that you've baked all these delicious cookies, let's make sure we package them properly so they arrive fresh and ready for your family to enjoy!
- Storage Container - Choose the proper container to store the cookies in. You can use traditional Christmas tins, but I personally like to use plastic storage containers. They will keep the cookies fresh.
- Coffee Tins - Believe it or not, coffee tins make great containers for shipping cookies! And you can get the kids involved in decorating them.
- Oatmeal Containers - These work pretty good too. And again, you can decorate them to make them not look like you've just sent your family breakfast.
- Wrap up Frozen Cookie Dough - if you're giving cookies locally, you can wrap up a log of frozen cookie dough with pretty parchment paper and ribbon. That way your recipient can bake the cookies at their leisure! Check out my slice and bake Christmas Refrigerator Cookies with freezing tips included.
- Mason Jars - another fun way of packing up Christmas cookies is to add the ingredients to a mason jar. Check out all the ideas in my Cookie Mix Gift Ideas page.
Helpful Kitchen Tools
There are quite a few different gift labels and tags available in the WOS Christmas Shop. I hope you'll click on over and check those out!
A fun way to seal the packaging for your Christmas cookies is to use these stickers. I love the "From the Kitchen" stickers.
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Italian Chocolate Pizzelles
A twist on my grandmother's pizzelle recipe. These are made with chocolate!
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Italian Fig Cookies (Cucidati)
With notes of citrus from fresh orange juice and lemon zest, the unique and richly spiced filling is wrapped inside a buttery sugar cookie dough that’s a dream to work with.
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Chocolate Amaretti Cookies
This rich chocolate variation of my popular amaretti morbidi cookies will delight your tastebuds.
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Italian Christmas Cookies / Pasta Frolla
I don’t think there is one household in Italy that doesn’t make cookies with pasta frolla. It is one of the must have pastry dough bases of every Pastry Store in the country. And I am sure everyone has their own recipe and method of making it.
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Italian Pizzelle Cookies
Have you ever seen an Italian cookie tray, whether it’s at a wedding, baptism, first communion or other family gathering without pizzelle? I don’t think it’s possible!
Classic pizzelle are flavored with anise extract or oil. However I’m partial to my mother’s pizzelle recipe subtley flavored with lemon zest and vanilla.
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Classic pizzelle are flavored with anise extract or oil. However I’m partial to my mother’s pizzelle recipe subtley flavored with lemon zest and vanilla.
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Christmas Biscotti
Haven’t heard of biscotti before? Oh boy, you’re in for a treat! Biscotti means “twice-baked cookies” in Italian which is a literal reference to how they’re baked. When these cookies first originated in Italy many years ago they were baked twice so that they cookies would develop a crispy texture and form the distinctive shape they’re known for.
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Buttery Spritz Cookies
These yummy cookies are known as “Pusher biscuits” in my area because of the cookie press that “pushes” the mixture out.
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Lady's Kisses - Baci di Dama (Italian Cookies)
These pretty little cookies are perfect served with coffee after dinner and make great foodie gifts for special occasions!
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Italian Rainbow Cookies
These Italian Rainbow Cookies have graced my Christmas cookie tray for many years and have always been one of the first to disappear
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Italian Almond Cookies
If there’s one word that captures these cookies, it’s rustic. And in my world, what that means is don’t get hung up about making them look perfect.
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Tiramisu Cookies
This is my newest cookie recipe for the holiday season. When I dreamed up these Tiramisu Cookies, I believed myself to be the first person to ever think of something so wonderful.
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Italian Cannoli Cookies with Chocolate Drizzle
I can’t even tell you how wonderful your kitchen will smell when baking these (or while eating the batter). The end result is an interior that is light and tender- almost like a moist cake crumb. I promise they’ll be a showstopper.
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Gingerbread Biscotti Recipe
Can there ever be enough gingerbread in the world? I think not. Especially when it comes to Gingerbread Biscotti. This biscotti, full of warm spices, is the perfect crunchy cookie for enjoying with coffee, tea or hot chocolate. It’s deceptively addicting too!
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Florentine Cookies
Our love of Florentines came about on one of our annual trips to Carmel-by-the-Sea in Central Coast California. Our favorite restaurant serves Florentine cookies and we just fell in love with them, so after many years of eating them, I finally have my own recipe.
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Occhio di Bue / Italian Sandwich Cookies
Whenever I went to the bakery here in Italy my eyes and of course those of my kids would immediately go (and they still do) to these buttery Sandwich Cookies or as they are called here, Occhio di Bue (Bullseye).
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Italian Anise Cookies
Italian cookies are a given in Italian households both in America and in Italy. This Christmas tradition has been passed down through generations.
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