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!