Italian Easter Cookies/Piricchittus
Ingredients
Flour Eggs Vegetable Oil Lemon Zest Baking Powder Salt Milk Sugar
Lemon Glaze
Sugar Water Lemon Zest
Step 1
Beat the wet ingredients in the mixer and in a medium bowl whisk the dry ingredients together.
Step 2
Add the flour a little at a time to the wet ingredients, beat just until combined.
Step 3
Knead gently on a flat surface to form a compact dough.
Step 4
Form the dough into small golf ball size dough balls.
Step 5
Place the dough balls on the prepared cookie sheet and bake until lightly golden. Let cool 5 minutes.
Step 6
In a large pan make the lemon sugar glaze.
Step 7
Sautee the cookies in the syrup for a couple of minutes.
Step 8
Move the cookies to a wire rack to cool completely.
Step 9
If desired you can double glaze them. Delicious!