Chestnut Cookies

By Marylee

This Italian Christmas cookie recipe came from my cousin, Louisa, who expertly bakes the recipes of her birth place, Sulmona, Italy.

Ingredients

• Dough
• 6 eggs
• 1-1/2 cups sugar
• 4 tbsp crisco
• 2 tbsp light oil
• Pinch of cinnamon
• Vanilla
• 6 tsp of baking powder
• Enough flour to make a soft but rollable dough
• Filling
• 1 kilo chestnuts
• Vino cotta or honey
• 2 grams cocoa
• 2 grams bittersweet chocolate
• 2 grams cocoa
• Grand marnier
• Vanilla
• Cinnamon

Preparation

Step 1

Dough
Beat sugar with crisco and oil
Add vanilla and cinnamon
Add eggs one at a time
Add flour and baking powder and mix only until combined

Filling
Place all ingredients in the bowl of a food processor and chop to form a chunky filling

Roll dough, fill and fold.
Bake at 380 degrees until golden.