ITALIAN FIG COOKIES (CUCIDATI) RECIPE
Steps:
- Pulse the flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt together. Add the cold butter pieces and pulse again.
- Add the eggs, vanilla extract, and milk. Process until the dough just starts to combine (like pie dough). Remove the dough to a lightly floured surface and knead a few times until it comes together completely and looks smooth.
- Divide the dough into four equal pieces and wrap in plastic wrap. Refrigerate overnight.
- Place the dried figs, dates, pecans, raisins, and orange zest in the food processor. Give it a couple of pulses to start grinding the fruit.
- In a separate bowl whisk together the granulated sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, and allspice.
- Add the water and sugar mixture to the food processor and pulse until it grinds everything and comes together.
- Place in an air-tight container and refrigerate for at least overnight or longer.
- Preheat the oven to 325 degrees.
- Form the fig filling into ropes about the size of your little finger. To make it easier form all the filling and place them on a parchment paper-lined baking sheet.
- Using only one dough round at a time (leave the remaining dough refrigerated) on a well-floured surface, knead the dough a few times until it becomes smooth, roll the dough out fairly thin, about 1/8 inch thick.
- Trim the rough edges from the dough, place a rope on the dough edge. Lift the outer edge and start rolling it over the filling. Roll it completely over and trim it off. Place the seam side down.
- Slice each strip on the diagonal into about 1-inch pieces and place them on the prepared baking sheet about 1 inch apart.
- Bake for about 12-15 minutes or until the tops a light golden and bottoms are browned. Watch them closely, all ovens are different. You may need to rotate the baking sheets for even browning.
- Allow them to cool on the pan for about 2 minutes, then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 79 kcal, Carbohydrate 14 g, Protein 1 g, Fat 2 g, SaturatedFat 1 g, Cholesterol 8 mg, Sodium 18 mg, Fiber 1 g, Sugar 9 g, ServingSize 1 serving
CUCIDATI (ITALIAN FIG COOKIES)
This is my favorite Cucidati recipe!!! These cookies are a little time consuming, but well worth the effort! It wouldn't be Christmas in our house without them. I make them every year, often doubling the recipe! I can't remember how many cookies this recipe makes, and often they disappear before I can start counting! (Prep time includes chilling time)
Provided by Kim D.
Categories Dessert
Time 2h15m
Yield 36 cookies
Number Of Ingredients 18
Steps:
- For cookie dough, sift flour, baking powder, and salt into a large bowl.
- Add sugar and stir well.
- Cut in the shortening with a fork or pastry blender and work the mixture until it looks like corn meal.
- In a bowl, beat egg, vanilla and milk together.
- Add egg mixture to the flour mixture and mix with an electric mixer for about 3 minutes until well blended; dough will be soft.
- (The original recipe says to knead the mixture for 5 minutes on a floured surface, but I find my Kitchen-Aid works great for this step!) Divide the dough into four pieces and wrap each piece with plastic wrap.
- Refrigerate dough for 45 minutes.
- To make the filling, grind figs, dates and raisins in a food processor until coarse.
- (If you don't have a food processor, you can chop by hand until coarse) Place chopped figs, dates and raisins in a bowl.
- Add remaining filling ingredients and mix well.
- (Mixture will be thick) Set aside mixture.
- Preheat oven to 375°F.
- Work with one piece of dough at a time, leaving the other pieces of dough in the refrigerator until needed.
- On a floured surface (I often use confectioner's sugar for rolling my dough), roll the dough to a 12-inch square.
- Cut dough into 2X3-inch rectangles.
- Spoon about 1 teaspoon of filling onto each rectangle.
- Carefully fold the long edges over to meet in the center and pinch to seal seam.
- Place each cookie, seam side down, on a baking sheet, making sure you leave at least 1-2 inches between each cookie.
- Make 2 or 3 diagonal slits on the top of each cookie with a sharp knife.
- Bake for about 12-15 minutes, or until cookies are golden in color.
- Remove from oven and transfer cookies to a wire rack to cool.
- For icing, place confectioner's sugar in a bowl.
- Add just a little water or milk, until you get a smooth consistency- but not runny!
- Ice the tops of each cookie and sprinkle with colored sprinkle.
- Let icing dry completely before stacking!
- Store in air-tight containers up to 2 weeks.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 197.3, Fat 7.2, SaturatedFat 1.9, Cholesterol 5.6, Sodium 67.8, Carbohydrate 32.1, Fiber 1.4, Sugar 19.1, Protein 2.3
CUCCIDATI
The compliments make these Sicilian cookies worth the effort. It's the best recipe I've found! -Carolyn Fafinski, Dunkirk, New York
Provided by Taste of Home
Categories Desserts
Time 40m
Yield about 5 dozen.
Number Of Ingredients 20
Steps:
- Place the first 7 ingredients in a food processor; cover and process until finely chopped. Set aside., In a large bowl, cream shortening and sugar until light and fluffy, 5-7 minutes. Beat in the eggs, milk and vanilla. Combine the flour, salt, baking powder and baking soda; gradually add to creamed mixture and mix well. Divide dough into 4 portions; cover and refrigerate for 1 hour., Roll out each portion between 2 sheets of waxed paper into a 16-in. x 6-in. rectangle. Spread 1 cup filling lengthwise down the center of each. Starting at a long side, fold dough over filling; fold the other side over the top. Pinch seams and edges to seal. Cut each rectangle diagonally into 1-in. strips. Place seam side down on parchment-lined baking sheets. , Bake at 400° for 10-14 minutes or until edges are golden brown. Cool for 10 minutes before removing from pans to wire racks to cool completely. Combine confectioners' sugar and enough milk to achieve desired consistency; drizzle over cookies. Store in an airtight container.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 132 calories, Fat 4g fat (1g saturated fat), Cholesterol 7mg cholesterol, Sodium 67mg sodium, Carbohydrate 24g carbohydrate (17g sugars, Fiber 1g fiber), Protein 1g protein.
CUCIDATI II
This takes some time to prepare, but is well worth the work. I looked years for this recipe for my father-in-law. After many tries, I found the one that reminded him of his grandmother's Christmas cookies.
Provided by BIGTIME
Categories World Cuisine Recipes European Italian
Time 1h30m
Yield 60
Number Of Ingredients 15
Steps:
- Grind the figs, raisins, orange zest and walnuts in a food processor, blender or food grinder. If the mixture is too thick, a couple of tablespoons of water can be added. Gradually blend in the honey, cinnamon, chocolate chips and orange marmalade. Set aside. Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Grease two baking sheets.
- In a large bowl, combine the flour, sugar and baking powder. Cut in the shortening until the mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Stir in the eggs, milk and vanilla until the mixture can be gathered into a ball. Turn the dough out onto a lightly floured surface, and roll out to 1/4 inch thickness. Cut the dough into strips that are 4 inches wide. Spread filling onto one half of each strip lengthwise. Fold the dough over to cover and seal the edges by pressing on them with the tines of a fork. Slice the filled strips crosswise at an angle about every inch or so. This will make diamond shapes. Place the cookies onto the prepared cookie sheet.
- Bake for 15 to 20 minutes in the preheated oven, until golden brown. Remove from the baking sheet to cool on wire racks. Glaze with your favorite confectioners' glaze and top with sprinkles for added festivity.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 139.1 calories, Carbohydrate 23.1 g, Cholesterol 7.3 mg, Fat 5.4 g, Fiber 1.7 g, Protein 1.8 g, SaturatedFat 1.5 g, Sodium 27.9 mg, Sugar 16.7 g
PISTACHIO CUCIDATI
Provided by Food Network Kitchen
Categories dessert
Time 2h30m
Yield about 36 cookies
Number Of Ingredients 12
Steps:
- Pulse the flour, granulated sugar, baking powder and salt in a food processor. Add the butter; pulse until the mixture looks like coarse meal. Add 2 eggs; pulse until the dough forms a ball. Transfer to a floured surface; knead just until smooth. Shape into a 5-by-12-inch rectangle on a piece of plastic wrap; wrap and chill 1 hour.
- Pulse the pistachios in the food processor until finely chopped; transfer to a bowl. Pulse the apricots until finely chopped. Return the pistachios to the food processor along with the honey, orange zest and juice, and almond extract; pulse to combine. Refrigerate.
- Position racks in the upper and lower thirds of the oven; preheat to 375 degrees F. Line 2 baking sheets with parchment. On a floured surface, cut the dough lengthwise into four 1 1/4-inch-wide strips. Roll 1 strip into a 3-by-18-inch rectangle. Spoon 1/3 cup of the pistachio mixture down the length. Starting from a long side, roll into a log to enclose the filling. Pinch the seam to seal; arrange seam-side down. Cut into 2-inch pieces and put on a baking sheet; refrigerate. Repeat with the remaining dough and filling.
- Make 1/2-inch-long cuts on the cut ends of each piece of dough; pull apart to form an X. Arrange 1 inch apart on the baking sheets. Beat the remaining egg and brush on the cookies. Bake, switching the pans halfway through, until the cookies are light golden, about 15 minutes. Let cool 5 minutes; transfer to racks to cool completely. Dust with confectioners' sugar.
FIG-STUFFED COOKIES: CUCCIDATI ITALIAN
My husband's grandmother used to make these during the holidays. Now every year at Christmas, as a family, we take on some big project in the kitchen. One time it was to make a timpano (like from the movie Big Night) and last year it was to re-create the stunning sculpted fig-stuffed cookies of their childhood called cuccidati (Goo-ji-data). His sister Fran and I taught ourselves how to make them from a photo we had. We didn't have the original recipe - only memories - so thank God for the Internet! We found some recipes and compiled our own from what we read. They are beautiful to look at when they're done, shaped and carved with a small knife to look like birds, fish and baskets of flowers. And the icing gives them the look of porcelain. They really are almost too pretty to eat. But you can make a simple version by just rolling out a piece of dough and filling it with the fig filling, then rolling it up and cutting it into 1-inch sections.
Provided by Food Network
Categories dessert
Time 1h20m
Yield 5 dozen cookies
Number Of Ingredients 25
Steps:
- Make the Filling: In a bowl, combine the figs with 4 tablespoons of brandy and let soak overnight or up to 4 weeks.
- In a food processor, combine the soaked figs, the remaining 2 tablespoons brandy, and all the remaining filling ingredients. Process until chopped and well combined. (Alternatively, run all the ingredients through a meat grinder. Some Italian women bring their filling ingredients to the butcher and have him grind it for them.) Keep chilled until ready to use.
- Make the Pastry: In a food processor, combine the flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt and pulse to mix. Add the butter and pulse until it looks like fine crumbs. In a small bowl, whisk together the 2 eggs and milk. While the motor in running, pour the liquid through the feed tube until just combined and a dough is formed. Form the dough into a disk and chill 30 minutes.
- On a floured work surface, roll out the dough 1/8-inch thick. With a sharp knife or pizza cutter, cut out large (3-inch long) almond shaped pieces from the dough. Transfer the pieces to a sheet pan; then chill.
- To form the cookies, have ready the filling, the chilled dough pieces, the egg wash with a pastry brush, and a sharp knife. Paint the edges of the dough pieces with egg wash and place 1 teaspoon of filling shaped into an oval in the center of half the pieces. Top each with a second piece of dough and carefully pinch the edges together to seal. Trim the excess dough from around the edges.
- Make each dough package look like a bird or fish, by shaping and cutting decorative lines. You can split 1 end to look like a tail, carve rows of lines to look like feathers or fins, cut a curved line for the gills or beak opening, and a hole for the eye. (There are many different shapes they're made into, such as wreaths, slippers, and crescents.) Re-chill the cookies
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
- Brush the cookies with the egg wash. Bake the cookies until lightly golden brown, about 20 minutes.
- Meanwhile make the Icing: In a bowl, whisk together all the ingredients.
- Toss the cookies with the icing while they're still hot and sprinkle with the colored sprinkles, or leave them plain. The icing makes the cookies look like porcelain when they're done.
CUCCIDATI - ITALIAN FIG COOKIES
Shortbread pastry dough stuffed with soft, fragrant mix of dried figs, nuts, chocolate, candied fruit and a hint of cinnamon is what makes cuccidati cookies unforgettable from the first bite.
Provided by Italian Recipe Book
Categories Cookies
Time 1h20m
Number Of Ingredients 21
Steps:
- In a large bowl of food processor add all dry ingredients: sifted flour, sugar, baking powder, salt and cold butter cut in cubes. Process until you get a crumbly dough without big lumps.
- Add eggs and vanilla extract. Process again until dough starts to come together.
- The whole process can be done with dough blender which is really handy.
- Transfer the dough onto a work surface and shape it quickly with your hands forming a smooth ball. Add some milk if the dough doesn't come together.
- Cover with a plastic wrap and let rest in the fridge for 20-30 minutes.
- You can also make the dough the night before and keep it in the fridge. Make sure to take it out at least 2 hours before making cooking, otherwise it'll be too hard to roll.
- Steep dried figs in hot water for about 30 minutes. Take them out on a paper towel or linen towel and pat-dry to remove excess liquid.
- In a food processor add figs, candied fruit and Marsala wine. Process until you get a nice paste.
- In a food processor pulse nuts and dark chocolate. Or you can roughly chop them with a sharp knife. Set aside.
- In a big bowl mix together fig paste, chopped nuts with chocolate, raisins and cinnamon.
- Preheat oven to 350F (175C).
- Cut off a piece of the dough and roll it out on a lightly floured surface to approx. ⅛ inch (3 mm) thick. Cut out a rectangular shape and save trimmed edges.
- Place fig filling lengthwise closer to one edge of the rectangle and fold the dough over to the other side brushing with some water the very end of the dough before closing it. This helps to seal the seam.
- Place formed log seam side down and using a pastry cutter or a sharp floured knife cut it into 1 inch (2.5 cm) cookies.
- Arrange the cookies on a baking sheet line with parchment paper or a silicone mat about ½ inch apart from each other.
- Bake in preheated to 350F (175C) oven for 15-20 minutes or until lightly golden brown around the edges.
- Let cool.
- Repeat with the remaining dough (including trimmed dough leftovers) and fig filling.
- Beat egg white until foamy, add a pinch of salt and lemon juice.
- Continue to beat, slowly adding confectioners sugar. Increase speed to high and beat for another few minutes until soft peaks form.
- Once cookies are chilled to room temperature, dip them in the icing and top with color sprinkles.
- Let dry for a few hours before packing.
- If it's too cold or humid inside you can turn on the oven and heat to 85F (30C) and let your cookies dry in the oven for 20-60 minutes, checking on them occasionally.
CUCCIDATI-SICILIAN FIG COOKIES
Cuccidati, also known as Sicilian Fig Cookies are traditionally served during the holidays, especially Christmas.The sweet dough is similar to that of a butter cookie and the filling is a mixture of dried figs, raisins, almonds, chocolate, jam, honey, and spices. The perfect cookie to give as a gift!
Provided by Lora
Categories Dessert
Time 1h12m
Number Of Ingredients 19
Steps:
- In a stand mixer, beat butter until smooth (1 minute). Beat in the sugars and soda until combined. Beat in egg and vanilla. Lower speed of mixer and beat in the flour. Divide dough in half in plastic wrap. Chill until firm. While dough chills, prepare the fig filling (see directions below).
CUCIDATI (ITALIAN FIG COOKIES)
These delicious cookies are a tasty mix of sweet, fruity filling, buttery cookie outside and a lovely lemon frosting on top.
Provided by Caroline's Cooking
Categories Snack
Time 55m
Number Of Ingredients 20
Steps:
- Put the flour, sugar, baking powder and salt in a food processor and pulse briefly to mix. Add the butter, in small cubes, the vanilla and egg and pulse to form crumbs. Add the milk and pulse a couple times to bring the mixture together.
- Remove the blade from the food processor and take out the dough. Knead it briefly (just once or twice) and bring the dough together in a ball. Wrap it in cling wrap/film and chill for at least an hour or two until firm or leave overnight. If you leave overnight, you may need to take it out 20min or so before rolling so it is not too cold.
- Remove the tough stem from the fibs then chop them into roughly quarters. Roughly chop the dates, if not already chopped.
- Place the figs, dates, raisins, almonds, chocolate, honey, marmalade/jam, brandy/whisky and cinnamon in the food processor and blend until a relatively smooth paste forms, scraping down and pulsing slightly more as needed.
- Preheat the oven to 350F/175C. Line a baking sheet/tray with parchment or a silicone mat.
- Unwrap the cookie dough and roll it on a floured surface into a rectangle roughly 10in x 8in (25cm x 20cm). Neaten off the edges so they are relatively straight.
- Cut the piece of dough in half the long way (ie so you have two pieces around 10 x 4in). Separate the pieces of dough slightly to make them easier to work with and to make sure they are not stuck to the work surface.
- Divide the filling in two and use half to make a log the length of one of the pieces of dough, in the middle. Make sure it goes right to the end.
- Roll over one side of the dough and keep rolling so it goes all the way rough and the join is on the bottom. It is fine if it overlaps slightly. Cut the log into slices roughly 1 -1 1/2in (3-4cm ) in length. Transfer them to the lined baking sheet and then repeat with the rest of the dough and filling.
- Bake the cookies for approximately 15 minutes until the dough looks slightly dry and they are just starting to brown at the edges and underneath. They may feel slightly soft on top but they should feel dry. Allow to cool a couple minutes then transfer to a cooling rack to cool completely.
- Once the cookies have completely cooled, Place the cooling rack with the cookies over a baking sheet (to collect any dropped sprinkles).
- Sift the confectioner's sugar into a small bowl. Add the lemon juice and mix until smooth. Drizzle/spoon a little of the glaze on top of around 3-4 cookies at a time then sprinkle on some sprinkles on top. Repeat with the rest. (Alternatively, you can turn the cookie over and dip them in the frosting, but it will likely run slightly and be a bit thicker. You will also need more glaze - I'd suggest making around double to have enough to dip in.)
- Allow the glaze to dry before transferring to a container. The cookies will keep well for a good few days or more, the sprinkles may just bleed a little color.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 153 kcal, Carbohydrate 26 g, Protein 2 g, Fat 5 g, SaturatedFat 2 g, Cholesterol 21 mg, Sodium 51 mg, Fiber 2 g, Sugar 14 g, ServingSize 1 serving
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