Recipe: Italian cookies (Tarrali )

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Italian cookies (Tarrali )
From: Don Corleone
Newsgroups: rec.food.cooking
Date: 11-25-98

These cookies are a Christmas time treat in my family. Hope you enjoy
This recipe, in my opinion, tastes better with margarine, but you can use butter.

Tarrali - Grandma Pellegrino style:

1 1/2 sticks (3/4 cup) butter (unsalted)
1 cup sugar
6 eggs
5 cups sifted flour
5 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. vanilla OR anise extract

Cream butter and sugar together, blend in eggs. Stir in flour, baking powder, and extract. Using a teaspoon, drop batter on cookie sheets. Bake at 375F until they just start to brown. Let cool.

Frosting:
1/4 cup milk
1-2 tbsp butter, melted
almost 1 (1 lb.) box of confectioner's sugar

Mix together and dip the top part of cookie or you can brush on.

Tarrali - Grandma Messina style

2 sticks (1 cup) butter or margarine, softened
1 cup sugar
2 eggs
5 cups flour
1/2 tsp salt
2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
1 pint sour cream
1 tsp vanilla

Cream butter and sugar together; blend in eggs. Stir in dry ingredients then sour cream and vanilla. Drop by teaspoon onto cookie sheets.. Bake 12-15 at 375F. Just until they start to brown.

Frosting: see Grandma ‘Grinos style above, do same way.