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Anginetti Italian Lemon Cookies

This recipe is an Italian recipe for Anginetti Italian lemon cookies.  Use them for any holiday such as Christmas, Easter or weddings.
Course Dessert
Cuisine Italian
Prep Time 30 minutes
Cook Time 20 minutes
Total Time 50 minutes
Servings 72 cookies
Calories 10384kcal
Author Liz Trementozzi

Ingredients

  • 6 eggs
  • 1 Cup milk
  • 2 Cups butter
  • 2 Cups sugar
  • 1 tsp baking soda
  • 6 tsp baking powder
  • 2 Tbsp pure lemon extract
  • 7 Cups Flour this is never exact, you may need a little less or a little more

Frosting

  • 4 Cups Confectioners sugar (approx - we really don't measure)
  • 1/4 cup water
  • 1 tsp pure lemon extract (more or less to taste)
  • sprinkles optional

Instructions

  • Preheat oven to 350F.
  • Beat eggs in large bowl.
    1 beat eggs
  • Add milk, butter, and sugar then beat until blended.
    2 beat wet ingredients
  • Add baking soda, baking powder and lemon and beat until blended. It will resemble cottage cheese texture.
    3 dry ingredients
  • Gradually add in flour and blend until the cookie dough is smooth and slightly sticky. It will not form a ball.
    5 blend flour
  • Drop onto cookie sheet in cookie size portions and bake at 350F for 10-12 minutes, until they start to turn a light brown on the bottom. Do not let them burn.
    6 drop on cookie sheet
  • Let cool on cookie racks and frost when fully cooled.

Frosting

  • Mix confectioners sugar with water and lemon extract until smooth.   
  • Dip cookies into frosting and top immediately with sprinkles that don't dissolve easily. Otherwise they will not stick to the icing.
    icing

Notes

  1. I recommend testing the cooking time on a single cookie first.  The extra 10 minutes to test is so worth it!  You may find the cookie is too wet and need to add more flour, or the cooking time is too long or short.  Ovens vary and so do the quality of ingredients so you need to test to be safe.   
  2. Sugar - you can cut back on the sugar, but this will change the consistency so you may need to modify the other ingredients a bit to compensate, but I can't state much more beyond that as I always use what is listed here.
  3. The frosting is a guideline to use.  Try it and add more or less depending on texture and preference
  4. This make a lot of cookies so if you don't want to make such as large batch simply cut all the ingredient portions in half. 
  5. Estimate 3 cookies per serving.

Nutrition

Calories: 10384kcal | Carbohydrates: 1565g | Protein: 136g | Fat: 411g | Saturated Fat: 248g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 23g | Monounsaturated Fat: 107g | Trans Fat: 15g | Cholesterol: 1987mg | Sodium: 7059mg | Potassium: 1798mg | Fiber: 24g | Sugar: 884g | Vitamin A: 13166IU | Calcium: 2109mg | Iron: 48mg